Busy Thursday....Play Therapy and Karate

Greyson had a good day at school. He came home and had a great story he had written. Michele and I really enjoyed it and he read it to us which was unbelievable for him. After school he and I went straight to Mr Mike's for play therapy. That was enlightening because he sees Greyson once a week as compared OT our daily interactions with him. That helps us gauge how well Greyson is doing with all of his therapies and things he has going on. Today Mike explained how he noticed how Greyson had really been having a hard time with his self esteem. Greyson cannot stand to lose and is a perfectionist which makes it a challenge for him to do anything new at times...well most of the time. Mike and I talked and we both feel that his school environment last year really took a toll on his self esteem. More than ever realized. He is coming out of it slowly and working on building himself back up but he has really had a hard time with feeling like he is stupid and cannot do things. He acts it out in his play therapy alot but is now starting to come around. Mike said today he actually was playing against him ,pretend army men or something, and Greyson at first was telling him, You can't do it...you don't know how....you don't do it like that....etc...etc....Basically he acts out how he feels about himself and his own fears through the playing. Later as they continued he started helping Mike and his men almost as if he had merged with them and they were part of his team. Mike said that was a good sign. he feels he is starting to move forward but that he really did feel very defeated in the environment he was in prior to this year. He talks with Greyson and feels Greyson is doing better due to the embracing environment he is currently in at school, as well as the extra curricular activities we have him in, and his therapies. All of these things are having a positive effect on his emotional well being. It makes me sad that he spent a year in a place that he felt so defeated and that he became so torn down emotionally. Greyson tends to not talk about his emotions...hence the Aspergers....so it was hard to understand just how frustrated he really was there and how badly he felt on a daily basis. I should have known since I felt it too each day as I picked him up. But...I digress and I want to keep heading in the direction of light....therefore....we have a new school...it is wonderful....and Greyson is doing absolutely great. Each day he progresses a little more and makes me feel a little bit better about all of this. After all it has been somewhat crazy at times. On a side note...a sweet lady at the Lancaster's BBQ, beside his martial arts center, traded stuffed animals with him tonight. You see...he had to play that darn crane game when we went in to order dinner. He did and won a stuffed pumpkin. unfortunately he wanted the orange and green cat and did not get it. He cried and cried and wanted more money but I had no more dollar bills. I wasn't paying anymore anyway for that darn thing. But...we saw the lady at the carryout register had the orange and green kitty on her register so I asked if she would trade with him. She did and the crane stuffed animal crisis was solved. Imagine that! I think I just needed a beer and some Excedrin! Haha...