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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Labels - for our child what does it really mean |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2010, 12:59 pm
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excellent synopsis! Vivienne
I think you are right it is a delicate path in both directions and One I will have to assess. carefully
Thank you all! |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Labels - for our child what does it really mean |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2010, 3:02 pm
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| I am not sure what to do with this information actually - there is so much emphasis on early intervention... and then I hear what you say and wonder. I am a person who likes being grounded in the truth. even if that truth is not good. If i know I see the world different then I will not look down on ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Go. To. SLEEEEEEEEP! |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2010, 2:16 pm
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Just starting to see my daughters behavior as being on the spectrum she is 4 - and I can tell you since she was in my tummy - she woke me up each night and still does at least once that is almost 5 years of sleep depravtion - no wonder I am tired all the time.  |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Labels - for our child what does it really mean |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2010, 2:09 pm
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| II heard someone say that they thought schools focused too much on the deficiencies and not enough on the strengths - Which everyone has NT or ASD |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Labels - for our child what does it really mean |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2010, 7:00 pm
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| this is my fouth child - so I know about norma development - i would not have talked to a doctor or be here if i have not already seen alarms - Do I fully know what they are caused by ? NO.... some of these symptoms can be signs of other things. I had LD's in grade school - that were not detected un... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Labels - for our child what does it really mean |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2010, 12:15 pm
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| She is 4 and her doctor wants me to put her in day care to help assess her compared to other children in her peer group. I cant afford to put her in day care volunteerily - so... I am looking for a pre k program she will not be eligible for Kindergarten intil 2011 - since she is a late in the year c... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Labels - for our child what does it really mean |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2010, 12:56 am
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| When I was talking to my daughters doctor about getting hee assesed since she was showing austic spectrum behaviors she made this statement and I am still wondering what she meant by it. " make sure before we decided to go to a neuro doctor that you are ready for her to be labled" She is a good doct... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Aspie men and NT women - what are the biggest huddles |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 12:50 pm
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| I appreciate all the comments - But where does reality come in to play? It seems to me (looking in from the outside so excuse me if i am wrong) that it is almost as if Aspies feel they live in an alter reality. Which might be the case. And yes I asked all the time about his motive and never got an a... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: The number one problem with dating (Aspies and NTs) |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 3:05 am
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| I think this is a problem with our society as a whole - dating as we know it is only a 100 years old or so. relationships happened for very different reasons for many 100's of years prior to that. they were more like a partnership in life - a business deal that grew to love a real founded help each ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Aspie men and NT women - what are the biggest huddles |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 2:45 am
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| I am an NT women married to a man I believe is in the spectrum, although he has never been diagnosed and refuses at this point to even think about the fact that "he is not normal" there are so many threads that completely explain all the "odd behavior" I lived with. It even clearer shows me his stra... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "Normal" people are stupid... |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 1:39 am
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| speaking about small Talk 'However, it is a skill that when mastered, can be quite useful as a gateway to new information, or to bonding with beautiful people. " well said I am an NT here because I WANT to see through the lens so I can be successful with you in a conversation. I have a daughter that... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: why wrong planet ? as a name? |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 12:47 pm
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i am just curious since I have heard people refered to as living in there own planet -
since thier version of normal is different then the earth version of "normal"
is that the point? |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: daughters "odd" behavior |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 12:38 pm
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| I agree with what you all have said on some level - each child learn different and needs to be readjusted differently - but when everone around you says there is somethign not "right" if you dont take note and look As a parent I might be using methods that worked before and do not and never will wor... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: husbands behavior... any thoughts |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 12:24 pm
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| IMHO, this makes you sound like the grade A jerk. Actually if he does have ASD then you are correct I have not handled MANY things as I should have that is the whole point of me asking you these questions. He thinks He is normal - just different - everyone his whole life has said there was somethin... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: daughters "odd" behavior |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 12:55 am
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| I have not had a diagnosis yet and have talked to her pediatrician who wants me to put her in preschool to see how she behaves with her peers she is 4 - a young 4 . and she warned me that I need to be ready for a diagnosis...... ? (I am not sure what she meant by that) But here are some of the thing... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: husbands behavior... any thoughts |
| arielrose |
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Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 12:35 am
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| I dont know how to put this any other way but I think My husband has some developmental problem he has never learned to deal with sucessfully or he is a class a JERK .. But even after years of Nt hell I think there is this great man hidden in there and I cant seem to get to come out for long ... her... |
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