http://fridayplaydate.com/the-cub-scouts-made-me-cry/ entirely true, but exaggerated for comic effect Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://fridayplaydate.com/the-cub-scouts-made-me-cry/#comment-2467 marti (standing still for once) Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:12:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/the-cub-scouts-made-me-cry/#comment-2467 First, congrats on zipping your pants. Second, as the years have gone by since the ASD diagnosis, after all the intervention we've done, we have noticed more and more that we're doing the typical child things and less of the ASD needs things. Of course, intervention started at 3 1/2, and Child is almost 11 ... but you've never seen two parents happier to see their child play on a typical little league team. Or a mother more proud when she overhears another parent say to the coach, "Let Child catch ... his head is in the game." Here's to the tiny little congrats we can give ourselves. First, congrats on zipping your pants. Second, as the years have gone by since the ASD diagnosis, after all the intervention we’ve done, we have noticed more and more that we’re doing the typical child things and less of the ASD needs things. Of course, intervention started at 3 1/2, and Child is almost 11 … but you’ve never seen two parents happier to see their child play on a typical little league team. Or a mother more proud when she overhears another parent say to the coach, “Let Child catch … his head is in the game.” Here’s to the tiny little congrats we can give ourselves.

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