Kramer moves in
Question:
Just a funny little tic Rory has picked up. He does a little Kramer body jerk and hits his thigh like you would to a horse to get him moving, and he says "giddy up". I know, as a good parent that I shouldn’t laugh, but it’s really funny. It is so much better than the banging of the teeth, which, by the way, has moved on to the rim of his baseball cap, or the table, or the wall, or the floor, or the car, or the,,,,,,,,, Cathy, *brushing the dust from her stirrups*
Response:
In article <01bd88a9$dad9cf80$1d692fce@default>, "Cathy Cameron" <cat…@csolve.net> writes: >Just a funny little tic Rory has picked up. He does a little Kramer body >jerk and hits his thigh like you would to a horse to get him moving, and he >says "giddy up".
Add Clayton to the posse! LOL! He had the same tic for 8months (minus the "giddy up") Instead, he just grunted after hitting his thigh. (John Wayne style). : Mother of 2 children with T.S+., OCD. ADHD
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Cathy Cameron wrote: > Just a funny little tic Rory has picked up. He does a little Kramer body > jerk and hits his thigh like you would to a horse to get him moving, and he > says "giddy up". I know, as a good parent that I shouldn’t laugh, but it’s > really funny. It is so much better than the banging of the teeth, which, > by the way, has moved on to the rim of his baseball cap, or the table, or > the wall, or the floor, or the car, or the,,,,,,,,, > Cathy, > *brushing the dust from her stirrups*
(Widely smiling.) Mark
Response:
In article <01bd88a9$dad9cf80$1d692fce@default>, "Cathy Cameron" <cat…@csolve.net> writes: > know, as a good parent that I shouldn’t laugh, but it’s >really funny.
I think we gotta laugh! As long as the kids don’t feel we’re laughing *at* them, it’s great. We do it over here and I think it keeps us sane. Just an update: We decided in April to take Andrew off his medication (for the first time in 5 years). He is almost totally off his Haldol (down to 1/4 tab at night) and he is a DIFFERENT person! He hasn’t stopped talking and asking questions (a little annoying, but I’m happy, believe me!). Everyone has noticed the difference. It’s like he’s come to life. Yes, he is ticcing, but not all that much more than he was while on the Haldol. This will definitely be an interesting summer. We’ll be totally off the Haldol in another week or so and then it’s on to the Effexor and the Prozac! Vicki
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Just an update: We decided in April to take Andrew off his medication (for the >first time in 5 years). He is almost totally off his Haldol (down to 1/4 tab >at night) and he is a DIFFERENT person!
Vicki, I’ve heard this before. I know one young man from Australia who was on Haldol for 10 years. He took himself off it, and discovered a whole new life. He said he’d felt as though he’d been sleepwalking all those years. AT 30 years old, he was back in college, engaged to be married, and ticcing all OVER the place. But he didn’t really care, compared to the somnabulent state he’d been in. As he said to me " I have a new life now. And I love it." KAT in CT
