I am the mother of a fabulous aspie child. He is 11. We got a dx last year, although we've always known our DS was a little "different" than the other kids. It was only a problem in school, where they have all these silly rules, like hugs are not ok.
We took him to the usual circuit of drs, who told us he was either "perfectly normal" (and how evil are we as parents to not be happy with that result??), a typical boy, or else they just looked at their particular aspect of it, like the three blind men and the elephant, and couldn't see the whole picture.
I sat down at my computer one cold January day last year and decided that my son didn't have fifteen different odd things wrong with him and I was going to solve the mystery. I started entering his "symptoms" in two by two (hey, it was good enough for noah) and every time I'd get hits for AS or HFA. Finally, after an hour, I read an article on AS. I sat there and cried. There was my little boy, in black and white, FINALLY. While I don't think labels are necessarily a good thing, knowing that there was a reason and a name for what was going on helped me immensely in not feeling *I* was going insane.
School has since been great, with a little prodding from the mother from he!!.
Suddenly one day I realized I not only had an aspie son, but I was surely married to one!!
Currently DS is not receiving any meds, and isn't in any real "therapy" program so to speak. School is providing speech, for pragmatics, and handwriting for his dysgraphia. I am working with him myself as far as his social interactions and moving him forward towards becoming a contributing member of society.
My son's favorite character right now is Dr. Reid on Criminal Minds.... He loves forensic science and crime shows, and of course Dr. Reid is quite the Aspie!
That's about it for us for now!
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20 Jan 2006, 4:43 pm
