I carry the black and white paint

Seeing shades of grey is a little difficult for my intense child. Dervish seems to be mono chromatically challenged that way.

Life for him seems to be made up of all black or all white and convincing him of grey areas is a challenge so I carry around two can's of paint - one black, one white and a paint brush to dip into what ever colour I need to even out the dervish perspective.

Admittedly, I don't often need the black paint... ok well, thinking about it, yes I do... I need the black paint when he's convinced a good thing is going to happen and maybe it wont, or it wont meet his expectations.

Dab a little black paint on the easter bunny because the easter bunny is going to bring so much chocolate that he'll have enough to last a year.... not quite... dab dab dab

Dab a little black paint on the rep soccer try outs because he will definately make the team even though every other kid trying out is a year older... dab dab dab

Get the brush out to add a little white paint to that dark area that tells him he'll never learn to read... dab dab dab

Nobody likes me .....dab dab dab.

You get the picture.... all kids have their moments but in the dervish life, they are more frequent, more dramatic and, when he's painted something white and it doesn't work out, more devistating. With my little artist brush I can help lessen the devistation and if it does happen to work out to his expectations... well, then life is just that much sweeter!

I don't think I'll be doing this forever, hopefully soon he will start to carry his own paint set with him and learn to add a little black or white to his colour scheme on his own.

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