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halo everyone .... from a wintery cold South Africa

please note that if you are involved with autism in any way, weather diagnosed or caring for an auti ... YOU ARE BLESSED ! .... the world is a diffrinet place ..... with it's true colours reavealed most often ....

OK, about me .... I'm doubly blessed .... our son ( now 12 ) was dignosed with autism at 2 when he stopped talking and it's been an interesting journey since ...... against prognosis he is now quite understandable and not nearly as "delayed" as we were told then ...... despite limited recorces in our side of the world, he was with a wonderful teacher who herself raised a daughter with aspergers ( now in university ) ...... she turned our little scardycat into a wonderful little boy with care and understanding only a mother-heart can accomplish .....

BUT ...... my hubby has since been diagnosed with Aspergers and, instead of getting better with understanding .... he is getting worse .... so please be patient if i pull my hair from my head from time to time ........

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My brother's son went to a special school after being diagnosed with "developmental delays" as a 1st grader, then went on to technical school, found the mystery of 3D computing and is a medical navigation technologist today ( the consentration and co-ordination "problems" he had were actualy in overdrive and he managed to flip the coin and use it to his advantage ...... his diagnose was changed to aspergers as a teen .... now 26, he's doing exceptionaly well at work .......

Are there anybody else here on this forum with family traits like this ?

Welcome Amri.

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Hi amri. I'm also from SA-freezing! And no rain! You guessed it-Gauteng! I had an uncle who had Autism in the worst. He never went to school, stayed in a place near Cullinan, took a lot of medicine dayly, had selective mutism and hit himself so bad that he got deaf in his one ear and blind in the one eye. They had to strap his hands behind his back. It is very sad, they say this severe case of Autism don't live long after 40, I don't know but I think it was their excuse for too much medicine! You are so blessed that your son can be helped and in the right way! Never forget how blessed you are! Your son has a real chance to a near to normal life, he can actualy use his genius! I guess my uncle lived as encouragement for those with severe Autism: there is help today and they can have a LIFE! Then my uncle's life was not in vain. God bless you, I'll be thinking of you... You are blessed!

Diagnosis for adults is a long trip into darkness.

It's just so unfair. They tell you the missing piece of the puzzle: you've had a bag over your head all your life. The bad news? The bag stays.

The sad thing is that my unclewas diagnosed as a child, I think it was in the 60's. Then it was just hard core Autism and there was nothing they could do for him, nothing. He was put in a home (institution) and never found out his parents died till the day he died. But I know his life was not in vain. His life without treatment with no hope gives us hope today: There is help! There is treatment! And no one has to suffer the way my uncle did ever again!

Welcome to WP amri. Hope you like it here.

From South Africa eh? Never been.