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I am glad you agree with me. I am writing without any particular personal experience, but I have talked to my paediatrician about AS quite a lot and she always said that she believes in respecting a child's likes and dislikes. I mean, at 5 my son doesn't HAVE to enjoy playing stupid party games, and when he's an adult he will be past the age where people are trying to jolly him along. If it's not the most urgent issue I don't believe in forcing children to do anything.
I agree with you there, everyone is an individual. Trying to force something on someone in my opinion, often results in even more resistance it. They need to be exposed to it and then decide for themselves and if the decision is no, that should be respected. I have an example in my life I posted about here that shows this.
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I am very lucky with my children, my son is AS, but he plays very well alongside his very sociable and outgoing sister and cousin who is a boy the same age as my son. As a group of three, my daughter and nephew tend to pair up but they don't bother my son and he's happy doing his own thing. Long may it continue.
That is good. They have perhaps found a way to get along and as long as it is healthy for both of them, leave it be. I don't believe in forcing socialization, I think it does not work, pure and simple.
I have no children so I don't have experience raising aspie children either. My conclusions are based on my own experiences in life. I think some things would have been a whole lot easier if they had just let me be.
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24 Nov 2005, 9:45 am
