SS8 has undiagnosed (except by me) sensory issues. He has trouble with certain foods (because of consistency), he vomits when he gets upset, he often keeps his hands in his mouth (so much so that he got a wart on his lip), he pets/pull and twirls his hair, he does weird things with his hands, etc. DH and I think he could easily be on the spectrum, but because information from BM is so different from what we provide, his only diagnosis is that he's "quirky."

In DH's CO, he and BM are allowed 2, 2 weeks periods with the skids each summer, and dates must be provided by 5/15. DH provided his on 5/12 and BM did hers that same day. Yesterday, we got an e-mail from her informing DH that the period he requested (6/19-7/3) was greater than 14 days and that here therefore had to drop the skids off to her on 7/3 at 9 AM and she would return them to us at 6 PM that evening for DH's scheduled 7/4 holiday (which starts the night before).

Apparently, in BM land, 14 days means exactly 336 hours, and not a moment longer for DH.

Several months ago, several weeks before she deployed, but while we were in the throes of court drama, BM declared that SS (6.5 at the time, but has since turned 7) was depressed and anxious, based on him biting his own arm in the car one evening. This was self-harming behavior and he needed comprehensive psychological testing ASAP. Testing was done this summer and the results were due today.

Our lawyer is a very experienced family law guy. Almost grizzled. He beat the snot out of one of my girlfriends a few years ago, in fact. So I've been surprised at how gingerly he's treated our case up to this point.