my husband and daughter has aspergers

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hello my name is debbie i have a daughter who is 6 who has aspergers and since finding out about my daughter we relized my husband has aspergers aswell i have 5 other children 2 older girls who are 20 and 19 and 3 others who are 8 3 2 i was looking at asspergers websites and found this one so i have joined to chat to other parents and people with aspergers iam a house wife and trying to cope with aspergers i live in kent in the uk

Last edited by debdash on 29 May 2007, 4:49 am, edited 2 times in total.

Welcome Debdash:

You are in the right place

thanks for that already fealy better having a rough couple of days

Hi there, welcome to WP!

I am 26 and have been diagnosed with AS (as well as dyslexia and dyspraxia and generalised anxiety disorder). I also have sensory overload problems.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Or if you just want to chat, that's cool too.

i am happy for your children to have a mother who's trying to cope with apergers. my mum is still in denial. good luck.

Ditto.

It is really touching to see a parent who is so caring.

Welcome to WP.

Hello debdash and welcome to WrongPlanet.

hello thankyou iam already finding wrong planet realy usefull and fun

Hello and welcome to WP!

I have 3 sons aged 8, 7 and 3. The older two have Asperger's, and since they've been diagnosed I realise my husband has Asperger's too.

So why have you been having a rough couple of days? Meltdowns? Stupid comments from people who think Asperger's behaviour is due to your bad parenting?

Look forward to chatting with you more.

Smelena

Hello and welcome!! You are in very good company here. I have 6 people in my family. I have ADHD with many AS traits. I have 3 teenage sons from my first marriage. 2 of them have AS. My 6 year old daughter has ADHD but is also being screened for AS. My husband has an appointment in July because he definitely has AS. My poor 14 year old is the only one who isn't on the autistic spectrum and he had spent years wondering why he was so weird compared to the rest of us. Surprise! It's not him.

If you're having a hard time, don't be afraid to write about in the parents forum. We all understand, believe me!

Hello im new here too.
I quoted you cos in my case its my mum and sis who have AS(not diagnosed but since ive been researching myself for a year now, i know for sure my sis though has traits, but my mum´s got most of the signs or symptoms), and being just 2 sisters, i always found i was the weird one cos my mum would always tell me, u are just like ur father, and would laugh at "our" diplomacy in sayng things, for instance..
However, im so glad i found out about it cos now i dont think im stupid i know im just different but her way of looking at the world, seeing things, us(my dad and me) NT couldnt ever get to see by ourselves, her amazing creative ways of solving problems have make me a wiser, open minded and skeptic person, and ive realized it has helped me a lot in my everyday life.
So you can tell ur son he is very lucky to be NT and have a mom being AS! cos he will learn 2 ways of looking at the world which will benefit him a lot, just like being bilingual in a way, though i know its bit different, hehe.
He´s also lucky to have found about it being so young, i only found out last year and im 30, so u can imagine how many years of misunderstanding, wished id found out before...but well, its never too late, im so glad, and happy. But i cant tell my mum, cos i see it as a different personality, not a syndrome, if i´d tell her now, it would hurt her a lot (since shes happy the way she is) cos firstly she wouldnt believe it, (as usual..too skeptic with everything), and would think im saying that just to hurt her, so id rather keep it to myself and see it like a different personaliti, cos thats wat it looks to me
Anyway, sorry for my english but i happen to be spanish and english is not my mother tongue.
sorry for my long speech, i needed to say this..., thanx for reading and look forward to chating with u more in here.
Adios!

Welcome

My dad is also very AS and I never told him that I thought he might have AS. He listened to me talk about my sons and he decided he must have AS. He knew without me telling him.
My NT son says he knows he is lucky and I have to say he makes me very proud all of the time. I am sure you are the same way because you have the best of the different personalities. I look forward to chatting with you more also!

Welcome to WP!

Tim

Hiya, thank you all, im very pleased with chatting here, really nice forum.
Blessedmom, thx, you are right, my mum always says ive made her very proud, so your son might be very much like me, we connect with AS or people on the spectrum very easlily, i can tell as ive dated 2 aspergers before..haha, but i just found out about it, since at the time didnt really realize it cos i had no idea about neurodiversity.
see ya!,