So we have been extremely busy with life lately, and I apologize for the lack of updates.
That being said here are two events that started the slide down:
#1
Just before Thanksgiving, Arcade Son and I were grocery shopping, we hit the local Winn Dixie and were headed to the checkout lane. One of Arcade Son’s “Stims” is to repeat things to himself, typically no more than a whisper in volume. This day was no different, and he was repeating some things to himself while standing next to me, he was helping me put things on the conveyor belt, while working through a conversation we had earlier.
Fairly standard stuff for him and I when we go grocery shopping.
The Girl bagging groceries took note of him repeating things, and proceeded to insult him and tell me how annoying it was for him to do that. I was floored to say the least (as was the girl ringing our purchase up), and for once in my life I had no idea what to say to this person. I still dont know if Arcade Son heard her enough to know she was being insulting to him. I just grabbed his hand, and we left the store sans groceries. He did clue in that I was upset when we hit the car and he was upset that we forgot the groceries at the Store.
Several dozen phone calls and emails later, the Winn Dixie reps for the area assured me that it would never happen again and the offending party would be let go as this wasn’t her first such incident….. I felt secure thinking they had handled the situation.
Fast Forward to Saturday 12/10, my son walk into Winn Dixie to get some groceries, and standing there bagging someone groceries was the girl from before. I sighed, turned around and walked out.
Arcade son looked at me as we walked across the parking lot and said “Winn Dixie is a bo-bo store, they are mean and controlled by villians that are jerks.”
Not much else needed to be said after that
#2
I pack a lunch and a snack for Arcade son everyday to take to school. Its always the same with the only variance being does he get “Gummie Chewies” (His name for little gummie fruit snacks, typically Spiderman or Capt America ones) or Oreo Cookies. The Oreo cookies are a way for me to surprise him with what he calls “Happy Daddy Day”, which is a day where I work from home, pick him up from school and then we go do something awesome like buy Comic books, take pictures of random things, wander the beach, build cities with sytrofoam/ lego’s/ and blocks, etc……
Two Fridays ago, I put Oreo’s into his lunch, and sent him off to school. The afternoon rolls around and I pick him up, and he is all super excited. We head home to drop off his book bag before hitting the store for some more of the new 52 from DC comic books. We walk into the house and he puts his stuff up and places his lunch box on the counter. I asked him “Buddy were your Oreo’s good?”, and he broke down into tears immediately. He hasn’t cried like this in a long time, it took me over an hour to get him calmed down to be able to tell me what was happening.
Apparently he “shared” his lunch with two other boys. (Note the quotations)
These two boys told Arcade son that if he didn’t share his lunch with them, they would go tell the teacher that Arcade son said something bad. Arcade Son, not wanting to get into trouble handed over his lunch.
I was livid to say the least and immediately called one of his teachers to discuss the issue. Apparently Arcade Son had been “sharing” his lunch for quite some time, and one of the teachers felt the need to tell him to stop doing such a few weeks ago.
Now I was Livid+1. I asked my son what was going on, but his time reference isn’t’ something that’s easily interpreted. (Common in Autistic kids . For him anything older than a few days is always “Two Weeks”)
This caused a whole slew of meetings and questions of supervision to pop into mine and Arcade Mom’s head. Luckily I can report that as of today, things have been addressed, and now we have to wait and watch to ensure that the school board handles their end of the situation.
In closing there are some small game updates I will be making soon:
Another round of Diablo 3 testing
Back to Karkand Expansion for Battlefield 3
Modern Warfare 3 Patches
New Products from Paizo, Privateer Press, and WoTC
Skyrim!
Anno 2070