Today is Jared’s third appointment with Dr. Champagne since last Thursday. And, for some reason, he has been horribly misbehaving this week. A behavior notice was sent home with him yesterday. He was not respecting another child’s personal space. If you know Jared, that’s not hard to imagine. He’s a hugger. He also gets up close to say, “What?” and “Huh?” But, the teacher told him to move away from the other child and he kept doing it. Also, he was ugly to another child. Apparently, this other child made fun of him because he was wrong about one of his letters being a “G” (that part of the story is Jared's version) and Jared said, “You’re a baby. I’m a big boy, I’m 6” and kept saying the other child was a baby.
For this 9 weeks, his behavior has been the best ever… until this week. I don’t know what’s going on with him. I talked with his teacher this morning, and she doesn’t know either. We’re not on new medication. His diet hasn’t changed. I don’t know if it’s spending 11 hours with Dr. Champagne this week or if it’s the unspoken stress in our household. We try to act like everything’s “normal”. We had a wonderful birthday party for his brother and he had a blast, as you can see:
Jared is the class clown. He has taken on that role. I believe it’s one of his coping mechanisms with his disability. This morning, I heard three kids call him “Silly Jared”. When we were in carpool, with the windows down, I heard a little girl tell her mom, “That’s crazy Jared over there”. He does these weird faces, which results in laughter from the other boys and girls. Yet, he mentioned again today that the other kids are making fun of him and laughing at him. When I talked to Jared about him seeking their reactions and laughter, he didn’t seem to get it. If he’d be less silly, he’d get less laughter. The other kids might think he’s being “silly” when he doesn’t say his words correctly or names the wrong letter. Who knows? I’m really hoping his behavior improves and we can all have a much better week next week!
I bet it has a lot to do with all of the testing he's going through. It's not part of his usual routine and is probably exhausting in some ways to him. Necessary to do though.
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