The Simpsons · Tuesday December 5, 2006 by Abbie
We had a day of watching The Simpsons. I think it was because Ram was so tired. Last night after we turned the lights out he said that he didn’t want to read first thing in the morning, but wanted to get up and have breakfast straight away. I agreed and then started to fall asleep.
But I was woken by Ram moaning! I was immediately alert and asked what was wrong. His stomached ached! I grabbed for the old enamelware potty just in case, and asked him where it hurt and if it was a sick hurt. He decided it was more likely a hungry hurt!
He hadn’t been able to communicate with me that he was hungry. All he thought of was that he wanted breakfast first in the morning, rather than just tell me that he was hungry there and then before turning out the lights!
We then went through what he ate that day, and it wasn’t much. When I am not with him he won’t ask for anything to eat, even though he was with his Dad all afternoon while I was out. So I went down and got him some rice cakes. We have always found that they make less mess in bed than crackers!
His tummy did stop hurting but it was some time before he got to sleep.
Because I had a disturbed night I slept later than usual myself. I was woken by Arrow barking at 7.30. I got up and fed her (she is usually fed at 6.30) and then had something to eat myself and got on the computer. But 15 minutes later Ram as awake too!
So we read for a while, and then came downstairs for breakfast. But he was clearly not up to much having got to sleep so late and waking so early, so I didn’t expect much from him today.
He has been very careful about eating more today. I think it is part of the Asperger’s syndrome that means that he can’t always tell when he is hungry. If I offer him food and he is busy with something, then he will refuse it, because he stomach isn’t telling his brain that he is hungry!
We did read an interesting article in the paper that tied in with the discussion on communism from yesterday. It was about Trident and nuclear deterrents. Some times when I ask him what he thinks of something he can say it in him own words, but other days he just can’t find words and make them work for him, so today he didn’t have as much to say.
One of the things that I like with home education is the continuity. Things are not just done once, regurgitated for a test and then forgotten. We can revisit things at any time, and relate them to current affairs and other daily happenings in our lives, to make things more real.
We did manage to watch the programme on Islamic art, and Ram thinks he will make it to the end of the programme on the lost pilots, but that is it he says, he needs to go to bed!
