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Ok, so I have been lurking for most likely a little over a month, and joining the chat at the odd occasion.

I am a mother to 4 beautiful boys. I am 99percent sure that my oldest has Aspergers and was waiting for a DX before joining, but a thread about food coaxed me in. (I am DX anaphalactic to multiple foods. meaning that if i am in a room with a green pepper, you will be taking me to ER because my blood pressure is dropping and my throat is closing.)

My children are 8, 6, 3 and 1. My husband and I just recently celebrated our 9th anniversary I look at my oldest and think, "wow, he is a little me" so I think I most likely have Aspergers Syndrome as well. If he gets Dx then I most likely will just accept that I have it as well.

Having bad airborne allergies makes going out a huge hassle, if not down right dangerous. I mostly stay in, which doesn't bother me too much because most of the time socializing with strangers is tiring. Sometimes I don't mind too much though.

My biggest thing about getting a diagnosis for my 8 year old will be for his IEP at school. The general practitioner put him on some ADHD medication and for the first time he is able to do his school work. He would just sit and play with his pencil and fidget all school day. Before the medication we had one good 4 day span the entire year (which was the result of promising to buy him a video game bribery), he has been on the medication for 3 weeks, about, and has not had a bad day.

He worries about small things to the point of making his stomach hurt. We have tried to cut back his stress level, but with having 3 younger siblings there is always going to be a little stress to cope with. He has been in speech classes since kindergarten, and has been improving steadily. We are happy with his progress in that area, and so is he. He loves to make mazes and play video games that involve mazes (pac man, rollercoaster tycoon.) He has no one at school that he considers a friend, but does not seem to mind/care. The children at school basically leave him be, but I want to get as much going on with his IEP before they start picking because he does stick out. Not much bullying going on in second grade, but I sense it coming soon, which of course, I am not too happy about. (also, if anyone has a tip on how to help yourself recognize subconscious humming I would be very grateful. They have had to move him away from the other students some because they have problems working if he is humming and he seems to do this subconsciously.)

About me: I enjoy video games (a real live gamer chick!.) Avid Guild Wars player for over 2 years. My new addiction is Rock Band, actually managed to beat the vocals on expert. (being on pitch does not, however, mean I sound good.) Learning about languages (particularly German, I can read it, and speak it to an extent, but speak to me in it and after repeating yourself 10 times will give up on me.) Have taught myself XHTML and CSS and am putting together a website for an up and coming business. (huzzah w3c). I like words, and can be found at odd times reading a dictionary. (That has gotten me some weird looks before.) (This does not, however, mean that I can spell well.)

That's me in a nutshell, which is a really bad euphemism, because I am slightly allergic to nuts, but what the hey! Oh and so is my oldest, which will hopefully not be another point for picking/bullying at school but will most likely present a problem. Also if anyone is interested, I am in a very great support group for food allergies, just PM me and I will let you know more.

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Det

Welcome Detren!

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Welcome!

Strapples is an alcoholic :\

Welcome Detren. It's nice to see another w3c-ophile.

Detren, I laughed when I read about your hummer. My son with Asperger's lite is a hummer too. I always liked it. It's one reason why I'm glad I homeschooled him, that and he could bounce on his head during class and not get in trouble because every time I got exasperated he would repeat back the lesson word for word. I don't know how they cope with it at his work as a programmer at a video game company. Maybe they all hum together.

thank you all

Strapple: Sorry, I'm more of a huge personal space, loose fitting clothes, please don't touch me kind of gal. My 8 year old hates hugs. His idea of cuddling is sharing a blanket on the couch while sitting at least 2 inches away (just close enough to share body-heat), and when he has to hug it is normally "backward". I know what it's like, so I don't make him hug people. If anyone outside my immediate family (husband and children) try to hug me I am really uncomfortable and have to try really hard not to inch away. The 8 year old WILL, however, sit on my lap to look at something on the computer. (but it will only last maybe 2 minutes max. and always at his own request.)

lau: I'm one of those people that when looking at website will check the code to see how compliant it is. haha. It frustrates me no end to see ugly code.

lelia: My little guy has decided that he wants to either make video games or be an accountant (my 6 year old plans on being a singing missionary bus driver. NT as far as we know.)

Nice to meet you, Detren.

To WrongPlanet!! !

You love dictionaries you say? Come on over to the games and off the wall forum, we have a dictionary game and a few
other word games going on. I myself have at least ten online dictionaries bookmarked and a old gigantic Merriam-Websters
on my coffee table near my lap-top computer.....You can't get more Aspie than that.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Strapples: I don't see anything glaringly obvious as wrong.

I by no means am an "expert". I am a self taught jack-of-a-couple-of-trades.

I learned using the w3c site, but they are a little difficult to learn from, they already expect you to have a bit of foreknowledge. Hmm, when I checked they were valid they have an apology posted about a time when they were in transition. I hope they got everything fixed up. If not... that's just ... wrong. haha

I mostly use notepad to get going. I have learned javascript basics, but for some strange reason, can't quite grasp how it makes things work. Need to mess with something a little more complex than "on mouse over" which i can just do with CSS anyhow.

richie: I just might. haha. One of the reasons I hadn't signed up yet was because things move too fast here for me, and I don't like to miss parts of things that I have... affiliated... would be a good word, I guess, myself with. I am going to try to just dabble and post at whim here. I have gotten totally sucked into forums before, and have hopefully kicked the totally sucked in, no time for anything else debacle. To loosely quote Hermoine Granger "I checked out this book for a little light reading" resounding thud of huge reference book.

What a nice welcome all, thank you

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Det

Hi Detren,

welcome to WP.

I also hate hugs or my physical space being invaded...so I can relate to you and your son on that note! As far as the bullying goes, i'm sorry to say that it will most likely happen to your son. If a child is different in anyway, other children seem to think of it as a chance to "look cool" by making someone else feel bad. Society is a mess!
There are ways to deal with it though...such as telling his teachers to keep an extra look-out for your son in class and at breaks and telling your son that if anyone is bullying him that he doesn't need to be afraid to tell you. There is always a chance that the bullying wont happen though, and if that is the case well then that will be a blessing!
I hope you enjoy posting here.

Welcome