Can't create new instance after calling destroy

Can't create new instance after calling destroy


My understanding is that when writing my own extensions to ui, Iuse
the destroy method to revert the root widget element to the state it
was in before _init().
So, I do that like this:
(function($) {
$.widget("ui.myWidget", {
_init: function() {
// add some needed classes, bind events etc.
},
someOtherMethod(): function() {
// do some other stuff
},
destroy: function() {
// take off all classes I added in _init()
// unbind events from this.element
// do whatever else to revert element back to pre _init()
return this;
}
....etc...
So, I assume this is expected behavior in order to comply with UI API:
var node= $('#my-widget-node'); // get the root node once
node.myWidget(); // creates an instance of myWidget
node.myWidget('destroy'); // reverts node back to original node before
calling widget
node.myWidget(); // creates an instance of myWidget (again) on the
node
The problem is, that once I call destroy, I cannot create the widget
again. _init() never gets called. I assume the ui core code is
preventing me from calling init again, but I cannot figure out why or
where. I looked at ui.accordion and it works as expected. I looked at
its destroy method and it does nothing different than mine that I
could see, but then again I am not great at reading other people's
code.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?