Having a Moment

[femkes_follies]

Ah, the joys of parental self-doubt. Amplified by special needs.

Today's menu:

Am I pushing her into dance class against her will, just because I want her to do it? Does she object from time to time because she doesn't like it? Or just because she'd object to anything that was somebody trying to get her to do something specific?

Would it make enough of a difference to her to try a gluten-free diet... even though she subsists off bread, toast, breaded chicken, and other wheat products? I could try some of King Arthur's GF products... though they're outrageously expensive. And it would be awfully hard to control outside the house. :-/ I don't notice any correlation at all between what she eats and how she acts. I'm pretty convinced it's not an issue for her. But sometimes it seems like it's such a part of dealing with Autism that not doing it makes you a bad Mommy.

If I could/did spend the time with her to go through all the workbooks Mom buys and all the various worksheets that are available.. would it help? Could she BE more if I tried harder.

Repeat for Rori.

>:-(

Having a Bad Momma week.

Comments

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

The thing about the GF diet is that it can take 4-8 weeks to know if it will have any effect at all (it might take less however, it all depends). There are much cheaper ways to do GF than to buy the pre-mixed flours, I mix my own and have for years.

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[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Let me mull it over. ;-) It's a wonderful offer.

I'm thinking, if I'm going to try it, I'll wait till she's adjusted back to school. It will be hard to gauge changes, otherwise.

School isn't a big issue... as they're used to it and have most of the other kids on similar regimens.

Which, I suppose, is why I feel bad about not having TRIED it. I don't really think it's an issue for her. But peer pressure is getting to me.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Talk it over with John, it needs to be something you are both on the same page about and you do as a family, otherwise it won't work.

Think of it as a science experiment, you have a hypothesis that the diet won't have any effect, so test it and see if your hypothesis is true.