Please forgive me I am just waking up and I feel very tired.
Yesterday was very long very stressful day. Jamie had his 18th birthday wasn’t much fun for him at all. It started with him online on MSN through his phone counting down with Leon, and Ben online.
At 12midnight he pounced on me all shaky shakey and we spent the best part of an hour snuggling as he fell awake. It was one of those time when he was feeling so stressed he just went rigid and started. But I was there. We were snuggling and he was safe.
After a quick chat with me and some more snuggling at about 4am jamie finally feel asleep. He didn’t sleep very well in the end, though this may have not been a bad thing.
After a couple of hours I was feeling really sleepy. I had been with Jamie all day as normal but he had been hugging an snuggling most of the day really worried about turning “18â€�. We came to the decision that he was not turning 18 he was in fact turning 17 and 12 months.
After we snuggled for a few hours, Jamie was feeling a bit more relaxed and when we started to get ready Jamie seemed okay. When we were talking in the night me and Jamie had a discussion over whether Jamie wanted to talk to anyone in the next few weeks. Jamie decided he didn’t want to talk to anyone. I knew that this was not going to be helpful on the day he has to sign up for housing and food money but I know Jamie was worried about saying something wrong.
Once we were awake we climbed out of bed, I had a quick lick clean while Jamie took off his bed cloths and had a “flap n spinâ€�. After Jamie was de-bed-clothed we had another snuggle. At this point the Nokia 6630 beeped to say “I have a message!!â€� and we had a look. It was a twitter message. A few moment later we saw the time and panicked.
We thought that the letter said I had a meeting with the housing people at 10:30am… and my advocate had said the day before he was going to meet me then. BUT THAT WOULD MEAN WE WOULD BE LATE AND THEY WOULD MAKE ME HOMELESS so he scrambled for his phone. He didn’t want to make a voice call so instead he sent a text to advocate saying the time s were wrong. After another “flap n spinâ€� Jamie put on some clothes and Ran down the stairs to the office where Will was on. We both went down and were waiting for my advocate to arrive and were both feeling very stressed.
We met with advocate at the door and then we walked over to the Taunton Dean Borough Council (TDBC) building. I was in my bag, and couldn’t see much. But I heard Jamie and joe talking about the website that maze have. An then we went into the meeting.
I was rather worried my leaving care worker Justin said that he would meet me. But he was not there. We started the interview with the housing lady and I was still in my bad. After a minute or two the housing lady asked a question which required Justin to answer. I heard Joe (Jamies advocate) phone Justin. At this time it was made clear that Jamie had misunderstood the letter and was in fact an hour earlier. But this was okay. We finished the meeting the and the lady said that I was entitled to a 1 bedroom flat or a bedsit (whatever one of those is). Justin, Joe and Jamie were explaining how that wasn’t a great idea. They were saying that the Adult Autism Service is going to try and find a specialist place for Jamie to live.
At the end of the meeting, we had to go and sit on the bench. Jamie showed Joe and Justin the parabolic reflectors built into the ground there and they said they were kewl.
I like the parabolic reflectors, what they do is enable you to hear and echo when you stand in the middle of this special circle. It very cool. An echo in a open space that only you can hear.
After this, Joe went home and Just and Jamie and me walked over to the job seeker place.
The lady gave us a phone number and said we had to phone it which we did. Justin started the phone call. He then passed over to Jamie. The lady said she wanted to speak Justin because Jamie couldn’t understand what she was saying even though it seemed to make sense to him. Justin was on the phone for over an hour as she asked lots of questions. Then another man came in and was shouting and being loud and scared Jamie. He didn’t scare me though. I am a Brave Lion. Humans don’t scare me. The guy was getting louder and I wanted to bite him when the security people took hm out of the building.
Justin said after that he was very stressed with the phone call. Jamie was okay. He was starting to have trouble now with thinking and doing things write. He told me he was feeling really sleeping and stressed. We walked back to the Royal Aston and talked to the sue with Justin and will. Me and Jamie then went upstairs to Have some Lion Time.
A few hours later We started to move my room to my new room. This was really hard and Jamie was struggling. So it took ages. WE are only halfway through nee to do the rest today.
Jamie then went to see parents for a bit. That was okay. Only they don’t Jamie taily and his dad doesent like me at all. Always telling Jamie to put me down. When Jamie said he was coming to school with me he said Jamie should take lil-lion.
I hope he understands me soon.
I have to go. Jamie has to go back to another meeting with the housing people real soon. Very scary!!!!!!
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Lion (with some help form Jamie)
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