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  1. Pic on right is July last year. It's amazing how she looks about twenty years older. Halftime custody and climbing over piles of clutter is sooo stressful! Anxiety, panic attacks...get those girlses some cheez whiz, stat! Really though, just buy one wheelchair van and share custody of it - whoever has Ali and HER CHAIR has the van.It's not like they don't already spend what, 150k a year on vehicles? I can't imagine trying to get that, or any, wheelchair onto the back trailer thing, it's easily ten times her weight. They will never get her a helmet. I worked with a kiddo who had to wear a helmet., to protect his head if he had a sudden seizure. The other students were a bit perplexed, questioned it...stared for awhile, then it just became a matter of course for everyone, within about three days. His mom said he just rocked the thing, wore it everyplace, no prob whatsoever.
  2. Aside from Buddy's behaviors being overlooked and fixed by his parents for years, with no consequences or teaching or much needed therapy? It's all that damn money they have!! Where on earth is all this money hidden? This isn't a couple of thousand here or there. This is purchasing things like a music studio. In SF, with historical ties. Financing a mayoral run. Haddie's college tuition. Fixing black mold. OK, one more thing...it isn't just the stairs in their retirement home, it's the location. Hey, let's move to San Francisco to relax and lower our monthly payment! What? Last thing. Oh, whatever. There are far too many. Well the school is just too ridiculous to even acknowledge. Oddly enough? I really like this show, if only because I know the next day is Friday
  3. I've had to catch the second half of most of this psuedo season online -- I can't even stay awake during episode broadcast. I did catch the "You weren't harassing her" scene. What? What? This could have been such an opportune time to show Max and the 39 other students and their parents that you sort of kind of know what you're doing a little bit Kristina. How about "No buddy. (parents at school grimacing) you actually were - you didn't stop telling her how you felt after she said she didn't like you the same way..." or whatever. Then she (kind of subtly dramatic tear jerking music in the background) could have said something like "It's hard when you hear a word like that, because you didn't mean to...but blahblahblah is harassment, Dylan was scared..." Then she hides her real life pregnancy(??) and tells everyone that Chambers Academy is going to have a social skills class added to the curriculum. That it will benefit students to learn how intent and result are difficult to ascertain when you have the communication difficulties related to ASD. But who would teach it? Maybe Drew? The hallway roaming parents could kind of nod or something. Maybe Sara can teach it?
  4. It's the autism thing that really bugs me. Parenthood may be the first, or maybe even the only, exposure the audience has to autism. It is a spectrum disorder. If we are to think that it is 1 to 10, why make Max a raving maniac? This makes me think of some fifth grader at dinner one night who wants a new boy he's met at school to come over, and mentions that he's autistic. (Wait, think the parents - not like that kid Max on Parenthood??!!) Why write Max as having so much anger and so many behavioral issues? It's a social development disorder. There were so many ways to write a stronger and realistic story arc. They have trouble accepting it. They keep fighting for him to stay in general ed classrooms. They don't like the diagnosis and still want to downplay it -- and teachers and administrators and their family and the audience could have been rooting for Max. A breakthrough? They decide to address it and struggle with meeting his needs, not cutting everyone down who doesn't go along with how "special" or whatever their son is. Instead he was just difficult, demanding, selfish, irritating, blah blah blah, with parents who fixed everything and never once addressed the roots of his over the top behavior. The biggest mistake: Kristina for Mayor? How about the school board. Kristina starting a #%@@ school? How about a perfect classroom for her son, who has a social, and not a learning or physical, disability. General ed isn't a fit, special ed classrooms are dealing with reading intervention and multiplication facts. Hey Kristina of the school board, why not create and find the funds for maybe a couple of bungalows at an existing school site to create classrooms for kids that have autism and have issues typical of a young teenager with high functioning ASD, which again is a social development disorder. This could have shown all kinds of kids on the spectrum, and could have offered potential "buddies" for Max. And that's just at school. I'm saying this because Autistic Spectrum Disorder is being said a lot. People are hearing it everyplace, the statistics are alarming, maybe they've heard about their own children. So why not show the real struggles of trying to help your child to understand things and learning to integrate into the community instead of just fixing everything leaving Max blameless? The other thing? Why do they have so much money? I mean opening seasons Adam was a what? Tennis shoe executive? There are a lot of other things too, but they have been stated here and there and again, quite beautifully. I'll miss this show because it's so annoying -- admit it, we all love hating a bad show.
  5. How about "Dylan was scared because you yelled at her." or "Dylan doesn't feel the same as you." or (still in the hallway) "Stop hitting him. Come to my office. Now." Oh, that's right. You don't help him learn stuff like that. He's too special.
  6. What a forum Parenthood had for sharing so much valuable information about autism. What a waste.
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