My son is visually impaired, has been since birth. His measurable vision is 20/200 , there aren't lenses strong enough to correct that. Add to it, he has nystagmus, where the eyes wiggle back and forth involuntarily, which makes it take longer to focus.
As an adult, he has learned to deal with his limitations. But he still has issues as well. He gets overly frustrated when things go awry. Today, his checkbook balance was overdrawn. And it makes him very upset when it happens. It doesn't happen often, thank goodness.
His gas powered bicycle broke a drive chain coming home from work Monday night. In his angst and frustrated state, he ordered one online and used his debit card instead of a credit card. Ooops. He thought he could beat it to the bank to make a cash deposit, but nope, things go through really quick being online. Then the part he ordered, the chain is too short. Needless to say, he's extremely frustrated and upset, and when he doesn't know how to handle it, he tends to do things .......
He used to just shoot up the yard with his paintball gun, but he sold those. Tonight I came home and found he'd been throwing the hatchet into the trunk of the palm tree. Now she's scarred, he will have to look at that every time he's in the backyard and know he did it. I'm sad for him, but don't know of any way I can help him get over that. He lets his frustrations mount when I'm not home, and lets loose. If I'm around, he can usually just talk about it, and I can soothe it over, offer solutions.
Yep, not easy being the parent of an adult special needs kid!
On a good note: Total steps today 13,752 a new personal best!
I also got in some weight machines as well...
and reached my goal 30 mins = 2.0 miles!
Yep, that took a little extra oomph
that I wasn't sure I had in me,
as I'm a little bit sore in the leg muscles!
That calls for a reward..... any suggestions?????
(chocolate comes to mind... lol )
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