It's taking longer because there are always two answers to each question. This is how he would respond at home but this is how he responds in front of other people.
The psychiatrist told me that I have made her job difficult for her - which is a good thing. In our home we have built a 'stilas' (scaffolding) around our contrarian which has ensured his relative normal functioning.
It's when he has to face the world outside - by himself without the scaffolding that things go wobbly.
There's another appointment just before Christmas to finish the questions, another appointment to go through his WISC (IQ) test results and a separate appointment in the new year where she wants to observe him personally.
Contrarian came home all excited today. He had been invited to Jip's house. He had come home to tell me that he was going (he remembered that I told him he had to come home). But when we got to Jip's house nobody was home.
My contrarian was devastated! He couldn't understand why they had lied to him. I assured him that there must have been a misunderstanding as Jip's parents are divorced (separate houses) and the gran has picked him up from the bus stop.
Maybe Jip was at his dad's house or gran's house?
Contrarian cried loudly all the way home - it felt like the end of the world for him.
I had to listen to how boring his life was and how terribly fed up he was with watching TV (he hasn't even watched TV the last 3 days).
He recovered a short while later and we had a nice evening at home.
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