My boy has what I would consider mid functioning autism. He is verbal and he speaks but not like you or I do. He exhibits all the classic signs of austism but my wife and I have learned to enjoy and cherish every second with him instead of worrying so damn much about everything. He is in public school and it has been a God send. He has grown leaps and bounds. We are starting to have some real hope. He will most likely need some type of assistance as an adult and that is really the only thing left that would keep me up at night if I let it. And thats OK.
You and your wife will have to make decisions on how to navigate but let me tell you not to beat yourself up too much about the choices you make or have made in the past. Lots of things have a way of working themselves out. Love the hell out of him and do the therapies and schooling type you think is best. For your son I think he will end up ok. I really do. It just may take some therapy and counseling to get him where he needs to be but he will get there. Show him a life of love and happiness at home. If his life is surrounded by that then that is his best chance to be loving and to be happy as that is what he sees most and how he associates the life around him.
I was reading what was posted in the thread so far and thought about the state of our society in general as it relates to guns and ownership. It was not specific to this shooting. Perhaps it came across that way.
No the affidavit was done quite quickly and at a fraction of the cost. Can't remember exactly how it was done but it was the standard way. What took me a year was calling once a month telling wells Fargo the affidavit was good enough.
We had the same issue with a few checks and other things that were made out to " the estate of my dad"
Those really took the longest for us as we had to deal with wells Fargo on that one. Bank said heirship affidavit was not good enough. Needed to probate. Took me a year but after about the 7th different person I spoke with there she just said ya I'll go ahead and make these out to you and your brothers. Just be persistent. I wasn't gonna pay 5 grand for that stupid probate thing. Idiotic that is required . The affidavit is fine.
Just to chime in here. When my dad passed we did everything with the affidavit of heirship. House, insurance, 401k, bank accounts. Some took talking to the right person but in the end we saved a bunch of money not probating. One caveat is he did live in Amarillo and we tend to do things differently there. Basically we knew someone who knew someone who we went to school with so most things had a way of working out without too much fuss.
"hey utgrad sorry about your dad. You know he was the band king in middle school?"
" Yes sir I did. Do you think we will have any trouble since my dad didn't probate his will? "
"I'm sure we can figure out something."
Someone question my logic. If my family spends 40k a year on non-mortgage related stuff like food, gas etc and inflation is 7 percent, would a $2800 a year raise offset my family's personal inflation costs? Let's say that is a pay raise of 3 percent for my family's household income. Would that 3 percent raise effectively mean our familys purchasing power remained the same year over year?
5 people in my pharmacy, including myself, got covid over the past 2 weeks. Since the pandemic began we had never had more than 2 out at once. There are 18 of us or so working each day. While we have been a bit more lax than before we are all still masked 95 percent of the time. I still can't wrap my head around so many people getting it with how careful we are. If the new strain is this contagious I don't see how we avoid another wave. And my symptoms kinda sucked. We are all vaxed.
It is litterally this simple. Ncaa and other governing sports bodies need to act asap or it will be a clown show. You name the sport, if something doesn't change, this will be the result.
I have no expectations for today. We know exactly who we are. There is no magic week of practice that will clear up our flaws. We know our strengths and weaknesses and we know our ceiling as a team. Hoping we have great 3 point shooting to put us over the hump usually doesn't work out well.
Beyond ridiculous this is allowed to happen. Common sense completely out the window. Feel so bad for the girls who have trained for this and who now have this as their memory of a moment they've worked so hard to get to.
Make no mistake I'm not upset at all at the trans girl either. Just another issue to politicize at the expense of others. Idiotic.
Any trans girl athlete still has a man's body. Am I taking fucking crazy pills?