Yes it IS Regular Rain

I don't know what has happened with Speedy, but my child is deathly afraid of rain for some reason. I don't know if some little dickhead kid told him something but every time it rains, he freaks the fuck out and cries his eyes out. And it's only getting worse now.

From the time he opens his eyes (at the buttcrack of dawn), he is looking out his window at the clouds. And from the time I wake up, all I hear is "Is it going to rain? Are those rain clouds? Are those normal clouds? Is it normal rain? Are those morning clouds? Is it windy cuz it's gonna rain? Why is it windy if it isn't gonna rain?". I am not kidding. He asks those same questions all fucking day long.

I know he asks me over 50 times a day, if it's gonna rain. I just don't know what to do.

Sometimes I tell him he better not say the word rain again or he's in trouble. I mean there's only so much I can take.

And I know he's been through 2 hurricanes but he was always sleeping when the really bad weather came through. So I don't know where his fear came from.

This morning he asked if it was gonna rain cuz the sun wasn't shining and the birds weren't singing. I totally lied and said the birds were sleeping and it wasn't gonna rain. I have no fucking clue if it's gonna rain or not.

He also thinks a "twister" is gonna come even though I told him we don't have those down here. We DID have one a few years back but I'm not telling HIM that.

I don't know what to do anymore. I mean he is scared to death. And he is now banned from watching the weather on TV cuz that freaks him out even more.

Do you think he'll outgrow this?

Remember his fear of blood? Well he cut his finger Sunday and didn't even make a fuss about it. I put a bandaid on it and he was good to go.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this rain thing will pass too. At least my kid is scared of weird things. I mean that totally makes him MY kid.