A psychologist friend of mine sent me this email I was touched by his words I hope the boy can be helped. I was touched by his words it is one reason I am open about my As I beleive discloure brings understanding and tolerance. Onbiously not all the time sometimes and that is better than nothing. I have told my friend C. about this website sdo the boy and his parents can have a look. To be I think WP is one of the best ones for aspies another friend of mine told me about it.
At my school, I'm working with a 13-year-old boy
who I strongly believe has Asperger's Syndrome.
He came to our secondary school with a reputation
for being very behaviourally disturbed. He was
apparently always complaining about being bullied
and rejected. His teachers thought that he was
the one causing the problem because of his
strange behaviour and his unwillingness to
understand how others were perceiving him. I
looked into his file and saw that already at age
4 he had been referred to a psychiatrist for an
ADHS assessment, which he was found not to have.
The next explanation for his behaviour centred
around the marriage difficulties his parents were
having. His parents refused to have relationship
therapy. His teachers and social worker later
explained his behaviour as being related to his
mother's alcoholism.
Then he came to us. He found himself in a class
with a couple of kids who became his friends and
with a class teacher who he respected a lot and
who was very clear in his communication and would
give him tips about how to behave. He felt happy
and secure for almost a whole year.
Then his teacher announced he was resigning and a
couple of kids in his class started abusing him
on their social networking sites. The boy became
very agitated, threatened physical violence and
informed us that he had recently taken up pistol
shooting as a hobby (with his father) and that
the guns were being kept at home.
We became very alarmed and I started seeing him.
Through your sensibilising me about Asperger's, I
suddenly had the sense that I was confronted with
a boy with this condition. The more I talked with
him, the more sure I became. I tested his
intelligence; he shot off at the end of the scale
(highly gifted). We talked about his interests
and his life goals. I mentioned the word
"Asperger" at a meeting with his parents and the
boy and gave them some literature. They agreed to
have him assessed after the school holidays,
which end soon. Unfortunately, there's a three to
four month waiting list for the assessment at a
specialized university clinic in Zurich.
In the meantime, I'm reading more literature and
hope that I can assist his teachers to understand
his behaviour better and to create and maintain
the conditions to enable to boy to be happy and
successful at school.
If I can contribute in a small way to a good
outcome here, then you should know that it was
because of you. The boy will probably never know
that he's got a "guardian angel" (i.e. you) in
Australia.
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15 Aug 2008, 8:31 pm
