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Message |
 Topic: Video game time limits |
Tortuga
Replies: 23
Views: 1443
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 Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:47 pm Subject: Video game time limits |
| I don't have a time limit on video game playing. I will take games away as a form of punishment. I play video games too, so I know what's like to get obsessed with one. I'm always around when he's pla ... |
| Topic: Anybody had child go from neurotypical to AS during teens ? |
Tortuga
Replies: 12
Views: 714
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:42 pm Subject: Anybody had child go from neurotypical to AS during teens ? |
| What has changed about her? |
| Topic: Is your aspie child medicated? |
Tortuga
Replies: 35
Views: 1686
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:44 pm Subject: Is your aspie child medicated? |
| My son is 4.5 and has PDD-NOS. Recently we started considering meds as a way to support his feeding therapy. He eats three things, only one of them possibly considered food, and otherwise literally su ... |
| Topic: 75% of autistics are retarded |
Tortuga
Replies: 28
Views: 1272
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:22 am Subject: 75% of autistics are retarded |
79.6% of all statistics are pulled out of somebody's ass....
And yes, when even profound autistics are given a non-verbal test such as the Raven, the vast majority of them test either normal or gif ... |
| Topic: Is your aspie child medicated? |
Tortuga
Replies: 35
Views: 1686
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:54 pm Subject: Is your aspie child medicated? |
| No medication for my son. |
| Topic: I can't respect my parents :-( |
Tortuga
Replies: 12
Views: 561
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:30 pm Subject: I can't respect my parents :-( |
Do you have a job?
I know a 20-something NT who feels unloved and unsupported by his parents. Only the problem is that the person he wants to be is someone who doesn't have to work for a living or ... |
| Topic: Really confused... Tic or Stim? |
Tortuga
Replies: 11
Views: 411
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:26 am Subject: Really confused... Tic or Stim? |
| Sometimes my son spins and he can't control it. He doesn't seem to like doing it either. He can't stop unless I hold him in place (and he likes the help). His spinning happens in public though. |
| Topic: No Therapists Available!!! |
Tortuga
Replies: 4
Views: 327
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:59 pm Subject: No Therapists Available!!! |
| I would try to find a private speech therapist for your son. My son only had 1 word when he started speech therapy at age 24 months and with a year of speech, he was close to typical with vocabulary a ... |
| Topic: Long Labor and Autism |
Tortuga
Replies: 18
Views: 483
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:34 pm Subject: Long Labor and Autism |
| Labor was quick and easy even though he was my first child. No complications during pregnancy. Yet, I can always think of a bunch of things that I might have done wrong. |
| Topic: "fit in" why is it so important to NT's? |
Tortuga
Replies: 24
Views: 642
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:42 am Subject: "fit in" why is it so important to NT's? |
| I think fitting in is important to everyone at some level. My son wants people to like him, but doesn't know how to make that happen. Just because he'll stim in public doesn't mean he doesn't want to ... |
| Topic: When ADULTS Pick On Your Kid |
Tortuga
Replies: 25
Views: 975
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:37 am Subject: When ADULTS Pick On Your Kid |
| I don't know what I would have done in that case since they were having a "private" conversation. But, I sort of recently got into with two other women because they giving my son the business. They we ... |
| Topic: DNA testing for autism opens doors to selective abortions |
Tortuga
Replies: 38
Views: 1218
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:29 am Subject: DNA testing for autism opens doors to selective abortions |
| A relative of mine was told that she was probably carrying a child with down's syndrome and they gave her the option of abortion. She said, "no" and her baby did not have down's syndrome at all. If he ... |
| Topic: Autism Rates in Breastfed as Opposed to Bottlefed Babies ? |
Tortuga
Replies: 29
Views: 750
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:22 am Subject: Autism Rates in Breastfed as Opposed to Bottlefed Babies ? |
I've wondered about this too. I breastfed my son for 13 months. He would not eat or drink anything else until he self-weaned.
I've always believed that breastfeeding probably reduced his autism sym ... |
| Topic: "Very smart" |
Tortuga
Replies: 16
Views: 696
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:39 pm Subject: Re: "Very smart" |
| I get this a lot from people but the whole time I thought it meant smarter than average and then my boyfriend says I'm average smart so he didn't mean I was above intelligent when he said it. Now it m ... |
| Topic: anti-vaccine thinking led to murder of 3 yr old by mother |
Tortuga
Replies: 45
Views: 1551
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:28 pm Subject: anti-vaccine thinking led to murder of 3 yr old by mother |
She is a sick and twisted person. A total nut job.
I don't buy into the vaccine thing, but I know several good parents who do. They would never harm their children though.
Clearly, that murderer ... |
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