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Hi.

I'm Cafe aka Heather irl. My sons, 7 and 9, were dx-ed at the end of the school year (by the school LD team) as HFA. I think my boys are quite cool, but society doesn't share my biases, so I am on a mission to do what I can to help them function as best they can, while not making them miserable or normal (shudder).

I will try not to be too annoying while I pick your brains.

HELLO!

hi hi

Howdy!

Good choice of portrait icon BTW.

I was blessed with a mother that explained everything. EVERYTHING. My loss of functionality starts showing up in social aspects gained after I started becoming emotional independant of her; my early teens.

If you explain WHY things are what they are, you wil be doing them a great service.

If you didn't have such a nice choice of avatar I would be attacking you for using the term n00b. I dislike chatspeak. But a Muppets avatar excuses you.

Hi and welcome! I'm the mother of an 11 year old dx'd last year.

I'm on the same mission.

Hi and welcome!
Is that Beeker from the Muppets?

Thank you for the welcome.
Yes, that's beaker .

My seven-year-old who does not read yet, but is getting there, has discovered Google.
He will ask me something like "How do you spell hovercraft?"

I will say H. He will run off and type it then come back and ask what letter is next. We will repeat the process until I say yes when he asks "Is that the last letter?" He clicks Images and he's a happy camper until runs out of good images.

I imagine having internet access makes it easier to be the parent of an ASD kid.

It makes it much easier. I'm sure a fair amount of us could spend hours browsing Wiki. It's an endless source of knowledge about almost any subject.