Well my plans so far haven’t gone quite the way I planned. Jane hasn’t had any time to hang out with me I’m not all that surprised our schedules don’t exactly sync up. As for hanging out with Knight I got to spend a night of gaming with him before his family left to go visit his aunt. I hope I get to hang with him today but who knows at this point.
I’m a little concerned about me babysitting my younger brother for the next two weeks. He hasn’t been home for a week yet and already he’s had two melt down. He’s 11 years old and has a type of autism that he doesn’t understand why he can’t do things that adults or older child do. He also has violent outbursts when people won’t do what he wants.
An example of what I mean is yesterday he wanted to walk to his grandma’s house who lives a good 3 or more miles outside of town by himself. When explained that he wasn’t allowed because he was too young to go anywhere by himself safely and the fact she lived too far he stomped upstairs angrily. That was just a small thing and we thought it had blown over after dinner until when it became bed time and he told my mom that he didn’t have to listen to her because he was a big boy and could choose to do whatever he liked now that he wasn’t in the special facility anymore.
He also demanded that my mother go out and buy him an iPad because she had a Kindle and I too had a tablet. When explained that hers had been bought with tax return money before he had come back and that I had bought my own he screamed at the top of his lungs that he wanted an iPad and he wanted it now. It’s all very stressful because he doesn’t understand why he can’t do something no matter how simply we explained.
Starting tomorrow I start babysitting him full time by myself because my mom starts her new job tomorrow and my step-dad works 12 hour days. I can’t say that I’m particularly excited to do this by myself but it was either I babysit him or he would have to become a ward of the state all because he can’t do normal things by himself. Wish me luck?