Portia Archibald's NCSA Blog Post

Portia Archibald's NCSA Blog Post (titled as The Story of Raymond) is Portia Archibald's NCSA blog post. It was posted on January 12, 2044, a few months after Archibald Family 2044 Halloween.

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[NOT TEXT: A picture of Portia with Skylar, Raymond, Ava, Elias and Kaylee at the Pittsburgh Zoo with Portia with her arms around Raymond.]

This story you're about to see is very unfortunate, It all started since Raymond was diagnosed with severe nonverbal autism and fragile X syndrome at age 3. Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition which causes disabilities like autism. It also causes a long and narrow face, large ears and flexible fingers as well as large testicles that affected him.

While his aggressions began at age 7, he wont stop banging his head, hitting himself, biting his hand, sucking his elbow until it bleeds and screaming when he gets upset. The aggressions kept upsetting my kids, making them cry. He wanted to go to Burger King, I told him no but he started throwing a fit. As he started to sit on the floor while crying, he took off his sneaker and threw it at me! I tried to stop him, but to no avail. When I tried to keep him from hurting himself, I was kicked, slapped, stratched, pinched, bit and hit. I suffered from welts, bruises and scratches from the rest of my life.

At the age of 9, he tried to take the belt off Ava's wheelchair by pushing a red button since she had 1p36 deletion syndrome, but I decided to refrain him from getting off her wheelchair. Ava might fear that she might be targeted by my oldest son.

By 12 years old, he was put home bound for 2 weeks after his behaviors and aggressions became so severe the school system couldn't keep him safe anymore. I tried help through doctors and medications, nothing worked. I called psychiatrists about his problems, he started attacking them by biting, hitting, slapping, pinching, scratching and kicking. He also gets Ava off of her wheelchair, dragged her and threw her across the wall. Poor Ava suffering from severe bleeding and bruises from Raymond's violence and aggressions.

Everything gets worse. My daughter Skyler tried to stop Raymond from hurting himself, he scratched her left wrist, pinched her right arm, bit her right wrist, punched her in the mouth, hit her in the cheek and kicked her in the stomach. As she won't stop crying, I gave him a harness and a helmet to keep him safe.

[NOT TEXT: A picture of Raymond's loose tooth]

He used to have a beautiful smile, until his self injurious behavior him to lose one of his front teeth. During a meltdown he was having, he banged his head against the dinner table until his tooth fell out. I screamed as Skyler and Ava cried. Elias told me what happened and I told him that Raymond lost his tooth when he banged his head on the dinner table. I put his tooth under his pillow to wait for the Tooth Fairy.

On Halloween, Raymond took all of the candy, started hitting himself, refused to stop screaming, and can't do anything other than pour bleach on the floor. Good thing I called the police on him.

After Raymond gets the treatment he needed, I created a Facebook page for him called Raymond's Voice.

''Portia Archibald is the mother of five who lives in Pittsburgh. You can find Raymond's Voice at facebook.com/pg/raymondsvoice''