{"id":237,"date":"2004-02-25T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2004-02-25T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T21:14:00","slug":"dr-top-ten-question-number-four-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"DR top ten question number Four!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Question: <\/b>How come you&#8217;re knitting all these damn scarves instead of working on my damn wedding?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Answer: <\/b> Okay, nobody actually asks me this, but I was worried it seemed that way so I&#8217;m answering it anyway.  I&#8217;m doing both the knitting and the weddings.  Some of you know this, some of you don&#8217;t, but my daughter has PDD.  That&#8217;s pervasive developmental disorder, also known as an autistic spectrum disorder.  In other words, she&#8217;s autistic, but not autistic enough to be labeled autistic nor &#8216;normal&#8217; enough to be labeled &#8216;normal.&#8217;  Smart as a whip, but it&#8217;s hard for her to express herself.<\/p>\n<p>This means that I spend a lot of time in waiting rooms, like at the speech therapist&#8217;s, etc., and I ain&#8217;t got a laptop.  So I&#8217;m working on the knitting a lot during that time.<\/p>\n<p>I work on weddings more in the evening, but sometimes I do take a break and chill out.  Like tonight, when it&#8217;s Enterprise\/Angel night.  Woot!  I&#8217;ll probably wander through the computer room during commercials and see who&#8217;s IMing me, check my mail, be sure nothing&#8217;s totally busted, etc., but sometimes I do need a break.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, I&#8217;m not ignoring my wedding couples for more frivolous pursuits, but if you&#8217;re worried, you&#8217;re always welcome to e-mail me.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, I&#8217;m always glad to talk to anybody about PDD and my kid, since the more people that know somebody with PDD, the fewer people automatically think &#8220;Rainman.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How come you&#8217;re knitting all these damn scarves instead of working on my damn wedding? Answer: Okay, nobody actually asks me this, but I was worried it seemed that way so I&#8217;m answering it anyway. I&#8217;m doing both the knitting and the weddings. Some of you know this, some of you don&#8217;t, but my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}