Another day older, another day hairier...

*Sidenote*: As I write this, I am watching my son through our video monitor (because I am a psycho paranoid mom) and I see him doing some crazy modified yoga moves in his crib while yelling "AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" as to keep himself from falling asleep. I admire his perserverance.

     Being a mom has given me some much needed perspective on the whole Autism thing....one of the perspectives is a Mother's perspective. I now partially understand how devestating it might be for some parents to find out their child's diagnoses. I say "partially" because I will never truley understand unless it happends to me. From now on, I will remind myself of this when working with particulairly abrasive parents, and know there is a good reason for it.

     Going on....another new perspective I have discovered is the "holy crap, im old" perspective. Before, I would look at myself as the "hip", "cool", and fun BI.

Ok, anyone who says "hip" is a total dork, and probably old,....I know...

Now, I am somebody's mom! How the hell did this happen? I guess my cool points just went down.

Yesterday I was reminded how old I was when working with one of my students:

Student: "Have you ever watched Toy Story 3?"

Me: "I don't think so...Actually, I dont think I have even watched Toy Story 2 yet"

Student, "Yeah, that's cause you're old"...

I thought to myself, "Holy Shit, he's right..."

This is the same kid that when I was trying to have a very serious discussion with a group about Bullies, he put up his hand and says:

"Um, I see some hair under your nose, and it looks like a moustashe..."

To be clear, this is not the first time I have been called out on my appearance before:

 When working with a five year old boy (who had very little verbal skills, mind you) we were naming parts of the body. It was summer and I was wearing shorts (in retrospect, a terrible idea).

Me: "where are your legs?"

Student points to his legs.

Me: "where are my legs"

Student touches my legs and says:

"Shave your legs, Kristen"

I don't know WHY I ever thought I was the cool one.....