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03 May 2010, 12:24 pm

Hi!

I am so glad to discover this community. I have a 7, almost 8 year old daughter who was just diagnosed with autism. On hindsight, I should have known, because it sure does explain a lot about her! This same girl has undergone some pretty in-depth testing, and was also found to be highly gifted, particularly in areas of logic, reasoning and creativity. To make things more confusing, she is also thought to be ADD, inattentive type. All three of these things, Autism, giftedness and ADD have at least one symptom in common.

Let me say that there is nothing about this kid I would change. She's a great kid and I enjoy her company. As she gets older, though, her 'differences' are becoming more pronounced, particularly with regards to social interractions. I hope to help her find navigate her way through school as smoothly as possible (I'm referring to how the other kids will treat her, and how she feels about herself). Right now she's happy and very self confident and even has a few other friends that she gets along well with. Two of them have Asperger's Syndrome, and I figure that's no coincidence, given my daughter's recent diagnosis!

Anyway, I found my way here in hopes that I can learn a bunch about AS from people who have first hand experience.



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03 May 2010, 12:29 pm

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03 May 2010, 12:46 pm

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03 May 2010, 12:53 pm

asmomma wrote:
Let me say that there is nothing about this kid I would change. She's a great kid and I enjoy her company. As she gets older, though, her 'differences' are becoming more pronounced, particularly with regards to social interractions. I hope to help her find navigate her way through school as smoothly as possible (I'm referring to how the other kids will treat her, and how she feels about herself). Right now she's happy and very self confident


That probably has a lot to do with you being very supportive and caring. If an Aspie lacks some kind of support network in their life, especially from their own parents... well, can't say for certain what will happen, but whatever it is, it's going to hurt.

Everyone needs at least one friend.. and its really nice if its your own Mom or Dad. A lot better had it been 10 or 20 "friends" at school or out in the world. No, I'm not being mushy... I wasn't raised around a lot of love... 8O my own Mom has not been supportive, and to this day, attempts to explain and disregard every symptom in myself and my children as anything but, Aspergers Syndrome or Autism. When it came to the documentation by a certified specialist, she denied it. When the subject was brought up in front of her sister, she turned her head away in anger.

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Since she willfully and defiantly refuses to accept the A.S. label, I've thought of "How can I get it through to her?" Like hire one of those catering services that will deliver a big birthday cake to her church, and *out pops a nude guy* ...
:shrug: "ooops ma, it was my Aspergers and inability to distinguish "appropriate" from "inappropriate" among social norms.".


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03 May 2010, 2:00 pm

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03 May 2010, 4:08 pm

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03 May 2010, 5:06 pm

Welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet community, asmomma.


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03 May 2010, 5:23 pm

AspieForty wrote:
Since she willfully and defiantly refuses to accept the A.S. label, I've thought of "How can I get it through to her?" Like hire one of those catering services that will deliver a big birthday cake to her church, and *out pops a nude guy* ...
:shrug: "ooops ma, it was my Aspergers and inability to distinguish "appropriate" from "inappropriate" among social norms.".


LOL AspieForty.

Welcome asmomma.



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03 May 2010, 5:41 pm

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03 May 2010, 7:25 pm

Welcome to WP, asmomma


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03 May 2010, 8:18 pm

Wow. Thanks for an awesome welcome!

LoL @ AspieForty :lol:



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04 May 2010, 12:45 pm

Hello asmomma, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!


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