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I was just wondering how your kids handle deaths. Ethan is high functioning autistic and well he does pretty well. When we were up for my grandfather's funeral, I asked him if he wanted to go or if he wanted to go to see his Aunt Kathy? Well I knew he would say Aunt Kathy so I didn't push him. He's 9 be 10 on the 28th of next month.

Kathy came after him the morning of the funeral, we stopped by and seen him just to check on him after the cemetery and he was fine and still didn't want to go with us.

We went back to my mother-in-laws on Friday evening and they said that he just started crying really hard, they thought he had hurt himself and he said he wasn't hurt he was just upset. So we all figured it was over papa and I knew it was. I didn't ask him anything about it that evening.

The next morning we were going to Wal-mart to get a few things we were going to be cooking out at my mother-in-laws that evening. Jimmy asked him on the way if he got upset over his video games and he said no it was something else. He asked him if he was upset about Papa and he wiped his eyes and got real quite. We didn't say anything else to him.

Sunday morning we got an early start we had to go back by my grandfather's to get our stuff it's about a 45 min to an hour drive. Anyway as soon as well pulled off the main road to Papa's Ethan immediately wiped his eyes and when we went in the house we got to missing him, I went upstairs and looked in every room Jimmy looked downstairs and outside and then it dawned on him to look in a closet in the living room it's a very deep closet underneath the stairs and he was in there laying down.

I told him to just leave him alone until I got his breakfast fixed and then he came and ate and went back in there for a little while and then he came out and was ready to go home.

Sorry it's so long.

Thanks for listening.