What is it like to be a Parent of an Aspie?

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The only word I can think of is amazing! It truly is. I don't see my child as others may. To me he is smart, sensitive, loving, beautiful and everything in between. I am so lucky that I am his mother. It saddens me that other people will never get to know how great he really is because they don't give him a chance. Even family members think he is a "ret*d". I am sorry to say that but that is really what they think of him. Just because he can't communicate like you do doesn't mean that he is stupid. In fact, he is so unbelievable intelligent.

When a tantrum occurs in public, when he stims and people look, or when other children say "get away from me", make it really hard. Not because of you but because of how it makes your child feel. I don't know what the prognosis is. Is he going to be able to drive? Go to a prom? Get married, have kids or get a job? Because I don't know that outcome, it scares me.

We have good days and bad days and since he is getting older the bad days are becoming fewer. Progress, little by little.
I don't care what other people think of him or me for that matter as long as I know I am doing everything in my power to protect him.

I am so in love with my son!

What's is like to be a parent of a classically autistic child? Nobody knows except the parents of those children because ever since the autism diagnosis broadened, our children have become invisible and we are more isolated than ever.

Hi everyone. This is my first contact with the Aspie world, other than through my, as yet, undiagnosed, beautiful, intelligent and incredibly difficult 20 year old daughter. I don't even know where to begin but I feel very alone as her step-father and brother are totally non-supportive. I am almost certain the diagnosis in November will be positive based on her research into her co-morbid conditions as Aspergers seems to answer all the previously unanswerable questions about her differences.

To date living with my daughter has been wonderful and absolute hell and it is a difficult time for me coming to terms with the fact that she won't have the life I thought she would have. I will do everything I can to help her but it isn't easy. I'd love to know if anyone else feels a huge amount of guilt that their child's Aspergers has been misdiagnosed for so long.

Do another other parents out there have the same difficulty as me with non-supportive family members as it is making it so much harder for everyone?