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Hey everyone, my name is Sarah and I am a momma to three beautiful children from Cleveland Tennessee. My 2.5 year old son Micah has been diagnosed with Autistic Disorder about a week and a half ago. I also have two sweet a loving daughters ages 4 named Alexis (typical) and a 16 month old girl named Piper( Keeping a close eye on her) and live with their wonderful father Ralph. I joined the forum to learn more about my sons abilities and to learn more about this so we can help each other out.

Welcome to WP! And, if I may ask, where on the spectrum does your son fall?

The report from the psychologist says Autistic Disorder. When Micah's dad and I went to the meeting to discuss his results, the shrink was more neurotic during the whole speaking with us about the dx and did not really explain into great detail. I had to research it on the net after we came home to find out what Autistic Disorder meant and found out that its also listed as "classic" autism. There is also another report we are waiting on from the developmental pediatrician from Micah's eval with him. The psych did not explain how severe, moderate, or low he is, but kept explaining that numbers are just numbers and how great his dad and I are doing because Micah has been in some of the services " speech therapy through Early Intervention for the last year with the rest of the therapies since January of this year". But honestly he really didn't explain anything other than not to worry about numbers and that he has Autistic Disorder. They did the ADOS and Vineland on him... I hope this makes sense to someone because the lack of explaining anything by the psychologist is making any real sense nor does it sit well with me.

Aside from my uncontrollable ramblings, thanks for the warm welcome James!! !!

Welcome Sarah. You've found the right place if you're looking for info or just into talking with other parents of aspie children. Enjoy your stay.

A pleasure to welcome you to the Wrong Planet community, Sarah.

To WrongPlanet!! !

hi, i'm new, my little girl hasnt been diagonsed officially yet. but her consultant and speech therapits think she may have aspergers. she is 2 and a half and quite bright. she can name 24 dogs, and 24 cats in 2 seperate books just looking at photographs. she knows over 20 nursery rhymes from beginning to end, lots of colours and shapes including hexegon, oval, diamond etc.
im having lots of difficulty with her at the moment, she wont tollerate anyone else only me. she even tells her dad to leave her, go away. she screams at everyone if they come in the door, especially if they approach her. she doesnt like touch from anyone only me.
she hates the hoover, loud noises, and cant stand the wind blowing on her face, or bright sunlight.
she has a balance problem, im not sure if the two things are connected! she is a very picky eater and is on drink suppliments to help her weight gain. she only weight 22lb.
i love her to bits but its really hard work, she's been under the child development centre since she was 6 months because she didnt reach her milestones, sitting, crawling, rolling over, walking etc.
she has a left side weakness that was identified very early on, again, i dont know if this is common with aspergers!
the one thing that is concerning me is her speech. she had excellent speech, being able to relay sentence after sentence. she often repeated me, and used the same language in the correct places. just recently her speech is becoming to be unclear, not pronounced as clearly as before, im having to listen again and again to figure out what she is saying.

Welcome to WP!