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Tuesday was a school day, unlike any other.  I had made the teacher and E.A.s aware of the night before.  It was an uneventful day at school.  The first hour home after school was also uneventful, until something went wrong with the computer.  The outburst came in a matter of seconds.  Things went flying, the TV was caught just in time, the bookcase was toppled onto the dog and then the violence was directed at his brother.  Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t know what to do anymore. It’s like living with Jekyl and Hyde. For 18 years, I have tried to cope as best I could, but looks like another teary night. Unfortunately, Michael has just about every behavior problem that comes with TS. I can handle the taking off, it’s just the worry of where he is and what might happen, but I can’t handle the abusive behavior. Although we all are affected by his outbursts, it is I who receives the worst, the violent ones. Tonight, I thought I was going to die. The occassional hit in the back is one thing, but tonight, he choked me. Claw marks on my back, bruised knuckles from where I flew into the mantle, marks and bruises on my back and a goose egg on my head. I couldn’t get to a phone.

Don’t want to call the police. They’ll arrest him, I’m sure. And jail is not the place for him. Moderate to severe retardation does not go well in jail, I’m sure. And I know, it will seem like a lietime before he ever sees a group home.