A.S.A Aspergers Syndrome Awareness Community Group
Asperger's Syndrome hits everyone, yet we don't know it until the last minute.
Hey guys, I'm new to the whole group ordeal and I need advice on what to talk about. Feel free to talk to me about anything that has to do with Asperger's Syndrome.
do you have alot? are they understanding of your autism? my son seems to have some really understanding friends so far but there are some kids that are not so nice to him but he thinks they are just bad people who don't know how to have friends.he doesn't really take it personal all the time. just wondering how you handle it
and one more question
what do you like to read about besides tigers?
I'm still trying to get my son to talk on here but he's nervous and doesn't know what to do yet.
Jordan has come a long way when it comes to school and peer relationships. Some of it has to do with his own maturity level but the school he attends really helps a lot. After he finished seventh grade I pulled him out of the public school and enrolled him at a local charter school. Since he's been there he has really come into his own. He is participating in dance, drama, choir, and band. He is writing now. In fact, after I miscarried his baby sister back in December he submitted a poem to www.poetry.com that he wrote for her and it is going into a book. Academically, he blows me out of the water. His MEAP scores were 788 (math). 830 (science), and 800 and 810 (language arts/reading) and that is WITHOUT any modification. He's had some issues with some of the students but the majority of what I hear is nothing but positive from students and staff alike, which is so refreshing. If he'd have stayed at the middle school he would have become a statistic and I love him entirely too much to let that happen.
He can tell you the rest of what he likes to read about but I will say he likes "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Calvin and Hobbes."
12 very lonely years. I am sure life would've worked out so much better if I had been home schooled.
There are people here that have the diagnosis. Myself included. I wish that I had a formal diagnosis ages ago. My first brush with psychiatrists happened in 1970 when I was still 19. So all my life I was on psychiatric medications, various kinds. In 1979 when I was in my final year earning my degree, I was put on lithium carbonate which is for bipolar. Realize how the world was back then. Only severe childhood cases got the childhood schizophrenia diagnosis (Autism).
My life would have been much better if I had known earlier. But science didn't catch up until the late 1990s, so I have been reading.
Inside my heart, I knew all my life that this was not acquired in late teen years.