Peter is doing well. The white cat story sounds so gross. Aaron made me watch a YouTube video of a vet popping a cat abscess the other day EW EW EW :p
How Isaac acted as a little kid is a story that would fill whole novels, and some of it is not and has never been on my lj because I don't want it public. The most complicated parts of him are some of the only things I feel aren't appropriate to share online.
It's not all anxiety with him, at least part of his problems have also been digestive - though anxiety can also cause digestive troubles, and so there is an overlap. It's hard to separate those two things, but yeah, he was a baby that never slept, a toddler who was into EVERYTHING and threw a lot of major fits every day, he's always had nightmares, slept with upset looking expressions on his face, would experience extreme sudden separation anxiety and PANIC before being dropped off places he knew and loved that he went to often (every time, even though he then enjoyed himself and said he wanted to go back soon...)
Some of our biggest challenges with him have included his love for negative attention making it really hard for us to ever modify his behavior, in years past, and his lack of empathy dealing with siblings and pets. Both of those things have been very different for the past 2-3 years, though. Since what I remember as "the year of Isaac," which was 2012, when he got separated out into his own room, went to school for the first time, was hospitalized and then seemed to live at the GI as we figured out some of his belly stuff, received counseling for months and had a formal assessment done...basically, a lot changed for the better. He was also just getting older, too.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is one of the things we learned in the assessment. He was 8. Isaac fixates on and obsesses over insignificant details a lot, though it's more about anticipation than change, for him. I don't want to list current specifics on the off chance that people who know him at school read my lj. I meet with his teachers, but for instance someone at his school found my YouTube channel and so everyone saw all the old videos of him when he was little. He actually was ok with that, like he kind of went, "ARGH!" in an exaggerated way but also thought it was cool. But I try not to write anything new and current about him that they wouldn't already know, and he wouldn't want them to.
I also just straight up don't have time to try to explain him in a comment...it's a lot!
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Peter is doing well. The white cat story sounds so gross. Aaron made me watch a YouTube video of a vet popping a cat abscess the other day EW EW EW :p
How Isaac acted as a little kid is a story that would fill whole novels, and some of it is not and has never been on my lj because I don't want it public. The most complicated parts of him are some of the only things I feel aren't appropriate to share online.
It's not all anxiety with him, at least part of his problems have also been digestive - though anxiety can also cause digestive troubles, and so there is an overlap. It's hard to separate those two things, but yeah, he was a baby that never slept, a toddler who was into EVERYTHING and threw a lot of major fits every day, he's always had nightmares, slept with upset looking expressions on his face, would experience extreme sudden separation anxiety and PANIC before being dropped off places he knew and loved that he went to often (every time, even though he then enjoyed himself and said he wanted to go back soon...)
Some of our biggest challenges with him have included his love for negative attention making it really hard for us to ever modify his behavior, in years past, and his lack of empathy dealing with siblings and pets. Both of those things have been very different for the past 2-3 years, though. Since what I remember as "the year of Isaac," which was 2012, when he got separated out into his own room, went to school for the first time, was hospitalized and then seemed to live at the GI as we figured out some of his belly stuff, received counseling for months and had a formal assessment done...basically, a lot changed for the better. He was also just getting older, too.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is one of the things we learned in the assessment. He was 8. Isaac fixates on and obsesses over insignificant details a lot, though it's more about anticipation than change, for him. I don't want to list current specifics on the off chance that people who know him at school read my lj. I meet with his teachers, but for instance someone at his school found my YouTube channel and so everyone saw all the old videos of him when he was little. He actually was ok with that, like he kind of went, "ARGH!" in an exaggerated way but also thought it was cool. But I try not to write anything new and current about him that they wouldn't already know, and he wouldn't want them to.
I also just straight up don't have time to try to explain him in a comment...it's a lot!