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Yesterday I had a good talk about the nature of autism ... about the effect of the absence of imagination ... the nature of this .... whether this can be repaired or compensated for ... whether it should be at all! It was pointed out that our role (as parents) is to help Kaylia to cope with life in our society ... we are not here to make judgements about whether her nature is good or bad ... or if we should "fix" her. Hard thoughts!!
In a way this is one of the themes in the latest "X-Men" movie that we saw on Sunday ... good movie BTW! I enjoy a movie that prompts a lot of thought about the underlying themes and messages ... this one had more than most.
What does "Raven" have to do with this? She wanted to be accepted by human society because she didn't accept herself. Once she accepted herself, she could adjust to society.
It's 8:10am and Kaylia's just gone into theatre ..... very woozy! The pre-med does wonders.
Midday: we're home again after a well managed major event! It turned that Kaylia had an abcess under a molar bottom LHS ... the tooth had to go .... then two upper molars were obstructing emerging teeth ... they had to go too! So she's had 3 molars removed!
She recovered well and she was determined that she was going in the car! She wasn't going to stay in that hospital! So she was discharged in quick time and now she gets to sleep off the drugs.
We were shuddering at the thought of how this would have played out before modern dentistry.
The abcess explains her poor eating in the past few weeks ... she would have been in pain.
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