Good times

I had a really good day at School yesterday. Really good. The teacher even sent a letter home to tell Mum and Dad how good I had been. How cool's that. So as a little reward Mum and Dad let me bake some cookies that we had for desert. I got really mucky making them and then splatted them down onto the tray. They kind of ended up sticking together but they tasted really good and Mum and Dad even let me have theirs.

More good news from school is that we have another residential this year. In July we are going to Oakhampton again which is really cool. We went there last year and I had so much fun. So I'm really looking forward to that.

Apparently I've got an appointment to see a special doctor next week with Mum and Dad. They have said it's a yearly checkup on my Aspergers. I don't know if theres much point because I've clearly still got it! They want to ask him a few questions about my arguing and something else that is too embarrassing for me to say on here.

I hope you are still all enjoying my blog. I am struggling to write things some days because I don't want people being bored and some of the things that I have trouble with I don't realise are things that other people wouldn't have trouble with.

Speak soon
Lewis

The trouble with Aspergers

Today I didn't know what to say. I've been getting into lots of trouble at home for doing things wrong but I don't like talking about it. Dad sat down with me and said that this is exactly the kind of thing that lots of other children might like to know. Which is really good, because, thats what I wanted this blog to be for. So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about just that. Why I have trouble talking about things.

Sometimes when I get in trouble I get so angry that I end up throwing things around and really shouting loads. I sometimes say things that I really don't mean. One of the things I get in trouble for is always wanting to get involved in conversations when they are not really anything to do with me and I don't even understand it. I just like to know everything that is going on and don't want to miss out on anything. I think the problem then comes when I'm asked to either keep out of it or be quiet. I then sometimes can't control myself. I sometimes can't keep quiet and keep talking until I'm really told off or I just get angry and start shouting. This is probably my biggest problem at the moment. I have trouble knowing when to stop and then when I get angry I have trouble calming down until I'm just left alone in my room. I can't be left in my room when I'm out though.

But I still like to think that there is good things that are because of the way I am. I love all animals so much. And because of that when ever there is anything going on with animals anywhere mum and dad take me. I went to the garden centre on Sunday because they had a cool animal display there with hamsters, special rats, bee's and a really cute little baby guinea pig that was blind. His name was Jasper and he was really cuddly. There was also a load of cool birds there. Big owls and eagles that I got to stroke as well. All though I think that Dad was more impressed with the birds than I was!

Speak to you all soon.
Lewis

Food frustration

One thing I keep getting in trouble about at home is eating. Dad calls it an obsession that I have. I always want to eat junk or even just eat. After I've had breakfast in the mornings I'll start talking about wanting elevenses or what I am going to have for it. If I miss having anything I moan about not having it. If I'm told not to complain about it I can sometimes get really angry. That is the way that it quite often goes after each meal. I hate to miss a meal and I always want to know what it is that we are having and when.
When I'm offered fruit I will get grumpy and say I want sweets. I know lots of children are like that though. It's just I think I probably get more frustrated with it than other people do. The thing that makes me most frustrated is that Dad gets stuff for Mum and I don't get them. People buy me sweets but I don't get to eat them when I want, and sometimes I'm told I'm not allowed them at all.

I got sent out of class today at School during French for speaking when I wasn't asked to. I didn't realise that I had spoken out of turn so I didn't know what the teacher meant when she said one more time Lewis and I'll send you out.

No problems with bullies this week at school though, which is good. Billy the bully was off school for one day which was really cool.

Hope you all have a nice weekend.

Lewis

Granddad gets conned

Granddad Mondo has been trying to get me a really cool play fort for the garden for a birthday gift. He ordered it ages ago and it should have been here three weeks ago. It has not arrived yet. So Granddad keeps trying to call them but they never reply so we are worried that he has been conned. I recommended calling the police. Uncle Martin is going down to see Granddad to help him out, because he's the clever one and you know what old people are like now a days!

I was really sad and he said he wanted to send me something for my birthday but I said no because he wasted all that money on the play fort and we haven't even got it. I feel quite disappointed that I could not get the fort, but I do not want to tell Granddad because I don't want him to get upset. He told me that he would be upset if I did not get anything from him, so he said he would send me some money down as I didn't know what I wanted, as I'm not really into much at the moment. I need to go and visit my Nan in Milton Keynes so that I can go to Toys R Us again, then I could find something.

Please keep donating.

Lewis

Bottle stealers

Yesterday I took loads of bottles into school for DT that I had saved up for ages to make a sculpture. I put them in the other room but then they all got used by other children and now I don't have any for my work. It really upset me because all the teacher said was oh well they were used by other children. It really annoyed me as it took me ages to get them all and wash them out so that they were safe to use. If I'd known I couldnt use them straight away I would have saved them for next week to take in.

Dad said that he'll make sure I have more for next week but its not the point, and they'll probably just get nicked as well. It make me not want to go back to school today. So when I got up this morning I tried to say that I didnt feel well but mum and dad were too clever for me and realised so I had to go. It wasnt too bad and I enjoyed my lunch anyway.

Hope your week is going well, I've got football club tomorrow so something to look forward to :)

Lewis

sorry I was ill

Sorry I haven't been around for a while. I was ill for a few days and couldn't think properly about my blog until I felt a bit better.

I have had a stressful day today and came home from school feeling pretty grumpy. I had a bit of an argument with Mum. I got in from school and I just wanted to chillax and relax and the first thing that Mum said was that Dad had said I needed to tidy my room and practice my drums. So I moaned at her and then stormed off.

Eventually I calmed down and thought I might as well just get it over and done with. So by the time Dad got home from work I had practised my drums and my room was nearly tidy. I have decided though that I am not going to play with my toys anymore. Then I don't need to tidy them up again. I'll just play with my ds, computer and watch TV.

I am now only £110 away from reaching my £500 target. I'm sorry I haven't blogged but please, please keep donating.

Lewis

late night again

Last night I had a late night again because Dad broke down in his company car when we went to get some petrol. I was so scared I couldn't stop shaking.

Dad had to go to Bristol for work today so he had a company car to go in. So last night he asked me if I wanted to come out with him to get some petrol in it ready for the morning. I thought that it sounded pretty boring but I didn't want him to go on his own and be lonely so I went with him. I wish I hadn't. Just as we got to the town the engine started to stop. Dad pulled onto a road that went down hill to try and jump start it. No idea what that means but thats what he said anyway. That meant that we ended up in a bit of town that had no one in it and it was really dark. Then the engine completely stopped and we couldn't get it started again.

I was really worried that Dad would get told off for breaking the car and then I realised that we were stuck miles away from home in the dark and got even more worried. I was sat in the back of the car shaking so much that Dad thought I was jumping around in the car because it was shaking.

Eventually dad calmed me down by telling me about the RAC. They are like the AA and come and fix cars. He told me that if they couldn't fix it they would take us home anyway. So dad rang them and then we just had to wait 45 minutes for them to get to us. The man was really nice and found out that it was a thing on the car that stops people from stealing it that had got stuck on but managed to switch it off with his special computer that he plugged into the car.

I was so happy to get home, but it was really late so I didnt get the chance to blog. So I wrote this down today and asked dad to type it for me as a punishment for making me have a late night :)

Speak to you all tomorrow.

Lewis

Bully gets caught

Today after school, Billy the Bully 1 finally got caught being mean to me by a teacher. We had to go out tonight so I haven't had time to write this myself, so while I'm out I'm writing it down and Dad will put it up for me tonight.

Back to the main story. After school today Billy 1 was running down the hill bashing into me over and over again, only this time one of the teachers at my school saw him and shouted at him. But he tried to ignore it and got into his granddads car. So the teacher chased after it and stopped him from driving off and still told Billy off for being mean. It was well cool, all of the other children saw her stop the car. Hopefully now he's been told off for doing it it might stop for a while.

In other news. My poor jimmy cat is a bit ill. He's got something wrong on his ears. It looks like they've been burnt and now the fur has come off of one of them. The vets have given him some medicine and we've got some cream to put on it so hopefully it will get better really soon. It looks yukky at the moment though, the poor little man.

Thats it for now. Thanks to the new donators, only £110 to go till I reach my target now!

Lewis

I love my Granddad

I got to see my crazy Granddad again last night and then he took me to school this morning. I miss him already. He is always so funny and cool. I wish I could see him more than I can, I always worry about him because of his poorly brain. He's hoping to come back down again in a few weeks. I hope he does, maybe he could come down during half term and we can spend even more time together. That would be so cool.

Granddad, if you are reading this, I love you and miss you, see you again really soon I hope.

After school today we had film club. We watched Carries War. It was about a girl and boy that got moved during the war. It was quite good. There was one person in it that I felt really sorry for. He couldn't talk properly and then a boy learns how to understand what he says. He reminded me of autistic children that can't talk. I don't know if Mr Johnny in the film was autistic though. It made me wish though that there was a National Autistic Society during the war to help people like this like they can now.

I'm hoping the weather is good tomorrow so I can go out and play a bit. Lets hope so.

Please keep donating, I want to get to that £500.

Lewis

Quick visit with Granddad

Sorry I can't really talk tonight. My Granddad is going back to Liverpool tomorrow and he's taking me out for the night and then taking me to School in the morning.

I'll speak to you tomorrow.
Lewis

Bully wins again :(

Well today the bully won. I didn't get hurt but Billy the Bully 1 came very close. I was pinned against a wall being threatened which wasn't very nice.

It all started at lunch time when I heard another boy swearing and I told the teacher, but she didn't believe me. Then when I went into the toilet that boy was in there with his cousin, which is Billy the Bully. I didn't realise that he was his cousin but it turns out that he is. Well then Billy grabbed hold of me and pinned me against the wall so that I couldn't move. The he said if you tell on him again I'm going to get you. I told him to get off of me and he said it again that he would get me again. He then let me go and I tried to get away, but as I did I tripped over his leg and fell against the wall, but when I did that I accidental knocked into the other boy. They then ran out and told the teacher that I had punched him. I didn't, I promise I didn't. I tried to tell the teacher what had happened but she believed the Billy and the other boy so I got told off and then had to miss break and made to sit away from the class.

So I think I got told off for being bullied. Dad is going to go in and speak to the teacher in the morning to sort it out. I wish I hadn't said anything to the teacher about the other boy swearing now.

I'll let you know what happens tomorrow.
Lewis

Close call with the bullies

Today was the first time that Billy the Bully 1 has said anything nasty to me since we started back at school. Thats pretty good going really but it did scare me a little bit.
In the afternoon at school today he came over to me and said, "I'm going to kill you after school" I just ignored him and then he came back a few minutes later whilst the teacher was stood next to us and said "I'm really going to kill you after school". I don't think the teacher heard him, even though she was stood right next to us. So when school finished I was a bit nervous because mum and dad don't normally pick me up from School on a Tuesday. But then I saw that Billy's mum or dad had come to pick him up so there wasn't a problem at all.

So I just walked home quite happily, practised my drums again and then went off to my Drum lesson. Which was really cool by the way. On the way there dad asked if anything had happened at school today, like he always does, it gets a bit boring eventually! So I told him and mum what Billy 1 had done today. They asked me if I had told my teacher, and I told them that I hadn't. They wern't very happy with me. They keep telling me that if anyone does or says anything that I need to tell the teacher. But I don't want to be a tell tail. They said though that if I don't tell the teacher then my teach can't stop it from happening, and then when mum and dad talks to the teacher about it the teacher won't know whats going on. So I suppose I should tell her. I sort of just get used to some people being mean though really.

Hopefully nothing will happen tomorrow. I've also got some cool news about a play that I'm going to be in to tell you about but it's late now and I need to go to sleep apparently!

Check ya laters
Lewis

What a weekend!

Firstly, sorry for not blogging for a while, I've been really busy as it was my Birthday yesterday. I'm now 10 years old. Sick or what!

I got loads of money and presents so I'm pretty much sorted now.

What was even better than the presents though was that my Uncle Martin has brought my crazy Granddad Mondo down to see me and I spent the whole weekend with him. It was really cool. We went to the beach, the fair and then funderzone, and I stayed with them in their holiday cottage. It was just the best ever. I love my granddad so much, I'm so happy my uncle brought him down for me.

In other news, I'm feeling a little bit disappointed that I've not had any new donations for over a week now. I hope people aren't getting bored of me.

One bit of good news though is that The National Autistic Society are going to right about me in their next newsletter because of what I'm doing on here. Which is really pretty cool, I might get famous!

Normal blogging will start again tomorrow so please come back and please donate, The National Autistic Society need all the help they can get.

Lewis

Football time, sort of...

Things are still going quite well at school at the moment, no bullying at the moment. Makes a change.

Today we had the Arsenal Soccer School come to school after school for football club. When they came in to see us last week, they said it wouldn't be just football, it would be lots of different sports. This week was handball, next week is football then it's hockey.

We had three different teams, two teams played and the third team sat out. In the first game we won. Then the other teams played. Then we played the third team and we won that as well, which meant we won overall. We had goalies and other players. We were only allowed to take 2 steps and then only 2 seconds to pass it to another player or shoot. No one really passed to me, but I passed to other people. I got the ball when they dropped it instead. Whenever people took a shot and it was saved I managed to grab it and scored loads, but still didn't get passed to. I had people in my team that I do not really get on with very well, but I still really enjoyed it. I don't know why they didn't pass to me. I kept asking at half time, why they didn't pass to me and they just kept saying, I tried to, but I don't think they did.

I'm really looking forward to actually playing football next week. I'm hoping that I'll be with other people in my team.

I have a busy weekend coming up, so might not be able to blog on Saturday. My crazy granddad mondo is coming to see me for my birthday and I can't wait.

See you soon
Lewis

Big school meeting

Today, mum and dad had a big meeting with my headmaster and teacher about how I've been and to talk about the extra help that they want to get me.
I don't know everything that was said but dad says the meeting went well and my teachers are really happy with the way this term is going, which means mum and dad are happy as well. They still want to get me extra help but there are things that I can do in class that does help me. Being at the back of the class now means that I'm not being distracted by things going on behind me. Also if I think that I'm struggling to concentrate or the teacher thinks I'm being disruptive I can just go out of the class and sit in the office for a little while and either keep doing the work or just relax for a few moments. This really helps me. Dad says that the school is also going to get some help from some other people that understand Aspergers as well and get some ideas about what do to help me. It's all kind of boring to me but dad says its important so worth telling you about.

The one think that I did think was cool was that although I didn't get onto the School council, I was second so I nearly made it, which means that some people in my class must think I'm pretty cool.

Drum lesson tomorrow so off to bed to get ready.

Lewis

Deal or no deal

Today I got back from school, which was boring as always, and went out to play with one of my friends. Only in the street though as I'm still not allowed over to the park. Well anyway, I played out for a little while and came back in to go to the toilet and asked if I could stay out later. I was told I could go out until 6. So I went out again. I came back and complained to mum and dad that I should be allowed out later. I think I should be allowed to stay out later because everybody else gets to stay out until they have to go to bed, and I would only be in my street where mum and dad could see me from the window. They still said no, I had to be home at 6 :( I was not happy, but went out for my last 20 minutes and came back just before 6.

When I got back, mum gave me this amazing deal. Mum said that if I behave, and come back when they say and go to bed when they say all week until my birthday on Sunday when I'm 10 then they'll think about letting me out later. I was quite pleased with the deal, and decided to accept it.

Thank you for listening.

Lewis

Cats!

Today I got my collection bucket from The National Autistic Society so that I can collect money at school and things. I'm thinking of taking it to Tesco's for the day to get loads of money, what do you think?

I thought today that it was about time that I introduced you all to 3 of my best friends. Rosie, Jim and Titch. I thought of this because we've just got back from having to take poor little Rosie girl to the vets because she's got a nasty sore bit on her leg that she needed medicine for. She had to have 2 injections and then the vet put a collar on her, but she managed to get it off before we even got home.
This is Rosie

Rosie is a Bengal cat that likes to have her personal space, she gets really scared very very easily, and is really mouthy. She was our first cat.

Jim or Jimmy is a ginger tom cat and he's really a big wus, if Rosie and Titch are jumping all over him, he'll just sit there and let them attack him. He's the fluffiest of the lot. Here is Jim giving Rosie a cuddle.

Every time Jimmy goes out, he always comes back with an animal or sorts, that he has hunted, and killed.
Our last cat is the youngest. The one and only, the Titchster aka Titch. Titch is probably the fastest of the lot, and the hungriest, and tries to be the most adventurous. He is Rosie's kitten. His brother was called Romeo but he went to another home. Titch is about 4 months old now, here he is.

I love all of my cats, they are all really cool. 

Anyway, just one more day to go until the end of this week's give away, and no one has entered yet, which is really disappointing. Please enter if you can, even a pound will make a difference. Just go to www.justgiving.com/lewis-robinson to donate, leave a comment on the blog and please remember not to claim gift aid if you want the socks. It's really easy, please do it.

Off to see my Great Nanny tomorrow.
See you soon
Lewis

Yay the weekend

The weekend is here at last. I love Friday's because I get to stay up a bit later and we sometimes have chinese for tea! And tonight we did :)

I hurt my head today. I was trying to scare someone at school and pulled the door open to say boo and really hit my head hard on it, and left a pretty big bump. Dad said I should have told the teacher but what's the point, it's not going to kill me!

I am also a bit angry at the moment though. It's a bit sad because I'm still not allowed to go out to the park. I think I've learnt enough to know that I have to look properly when I cross the road. I think it's really unfair. I think mum and dad won't let me because they hate me. They really said that they are really afraid that I'll get hurt, because I get distracted by things and might run across the road. But I think I know that even if someone calls me and says hey Lewis, quick come here, we are playing a really cool game, that I'd still make sure I look.

I think that when they know I'm going to try that they might let me. All I get told is that, no you can't because you'll get yourself killed, but I'm flippin not!

I know that what I need to do is prove that I can be trusted, but it's not easy when I get annoyed or upset because I go out and then come home early because everyone else has left my street and gone over the the park.

Hopefully soon I'll get it right!

Wish me luck
Lewis

School still cool

Firstly no one has entered my give away for Sock Shop socks. All you need to do is donate and leave a comment. Come on please help me out here!

So far this term I'm still being pretty good at school and not getting sent out of class. I've only been sent out once since school started. I'm trying really hard because it's a new year and a new start. Thats what I was told at the end of the year and thats what I'm doing. A couple of times I've been given warnings but managed to calm down and then don't get told off.

In literacy we've been writing stories and I think I'm the best in my year at the moment. My worst lesson is French and thats tomorrow. I'm supposed to be winning a prize for remembering French words for each letter of the alphabet.

I hope your week is going as well as mine so far, I havent even been told off at home yet! How cool is that?

Speak to you tomorrow after French yuk!
Lewis

Sad story

There was something that I read the other day about a girl that had just found out that summer that she had aspergers. She kept asking her mum to kill her! Tragic! She thought she had no friends and that everybody didn't like her and she was bullied. She told her mum that her only friend was Jesus and that the only way she could see him was if her mum killed her. It really made me feel sad to hear about that. I have tried to hurt myself in the past, I don't know why, dad says I would just get really frustrated and then bang my head. I'm better with that sort of thing now. Now I just throw things around rather than hurt myself.

I really hope that she soon realises that having aspergers can have certain benefits, like the person person that invented Windows is supposed to have asperger's and a man call Einstein who was supposed to be really clever. It makes me have a really good memory and I think it makes me really like animals and want to help them.

The National Autistic society can help little girls like this, by getting them to talk to special doctors. That is why I'm trying to do this. To help people like that.

Please keep donating and I'll speak to you soon.
Lewis