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a while ago, a picked up a book my mother was reading, it was one of those parenting guides for parents with aspie children, now at this point i already felt offended, i'm seventeen there's hardly any real raising, correcting and teaching left to do, furthermore as i dove into this wondrous piece of literature, i noticed the emphasis was on how aspies are dull, emotionless,expressionless,and not really up for giving alot of affection instead of saying along the lines of your child loves you, but has a hard time expressing it the writer just doesn't seem to bother, and generally sketches a situation that applies to a stereotypical aspie in other words a person who has the most extreme forms of all negative aspie traits. the book also mentions that a parent should never ever go into discussion with their aspie children unless they are 100% certain they can win the discussion, for great justice....yeah right

it is not my intention the discredit the writer, she states she has an aspie son, and proably wrote the book with the best of intentions, she just forgot to mention a couple a details, wich if mentioned could make the overall opinion on aspies better, because, let's face it, saying that aspies are a bunch of emotionless unloving human beings, isn't much of a self-esteem raiser.

I see your point. You are quite right.

Which book was it?

Magliabechi.

i'm not sure how the book is called, because it was a translated version (english to dutch) the title went along the lines of parenting guide for aspergers or something like that

I'm none of those things except the last! Wow... do you know the author's name?

no i'm sorry, i haven't looked at this book ever since, and i never will, you learn to raise your children through experiences and interaction not by books, if only my mother would understand that

She should have included that Asperger's ranges from mild to severe. Tony Attwood's book would be a better choice.

We are not all the worst cases, and I some times think these worst cases are just a sterotypical idea of what we are like. We are not boreing and have a large range of conversations are very good, I would feel very depressed if the only onversations I had were ones I was going to lose. And I have found myself often feeling more emotional then what others are, we just are not even that basic idea that some scholars think.

What a nice book. So accurate.

Can you detect my sarcasm?

Those books always make me angry, but there are some good Aspie books too. I just hate the general belief that anything on the autism spectrum means that the person is like the Rain Man.