I am a member of another autism site this one pretty much for parents where I like to tell my story of growing up and I hope to inspire parents that their children can someday be sucessful and independent adults as well as give advice when asked questions. I want to make a difference and try to help parents because I have as anybody else experienced both good and bad in life and hope to try and maby help them avoid some of the bad because I would hate to see others screw up like I did a bit in life. I want these autistic children to have things better then I did, not that I did not have things good, I just feel I can make a positive difference and enjoy helping these parents try and do the right thing as my parents did during a time when little information was avalible for parents of autistic children, no info or really any theripy that I was awair or part of.
Often I try to discourage theripy, at least a ton of it for parents of high functioning children, absolutly beleiving that experiences and having a normal childhood is far better then any theripy, tho a little can be benificial, I would hate to see these HFA children spend their whole childhood in a theripists office when they could instead have a happy childhood full of both good and bad experiences so they can learn, adapt and do good in their future teen and adult lives.
HEH, wow... did I go wayyyy of on a rant! HEHEH
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DX'ed with HFA as a child. However this was in 1987 and I am certain had I been DX'ed a few years later I would have been DX'ed with AS instead.