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 Topic: How to tell your Aspie kid? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 24
Views: 1992
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 Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:44 pm Subject: How to tell your Aspie kid? |
| My ds, 15 1/2, has PDD-NOS and was recently diagnosed. We told him it wasn't his fault, it was something in the wiring in his brain that wasn't quite right. We told him it caused him to be less soci ... |
| Topic: why so stubborn? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 36
Views: 2775
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:19 am Subject: why so stubborn? |
| Is she your only child? I understand that ASD plays a role in this in controlling things and comfort, but there is a reason 4 is known as the frustrating fours. Both of my kids went through this and ... |
| Topic: Why do I have to be the one to initiate contact? A rant. |
alongfortheride
Replies: 6
Views: 873
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:08 pm Subject: Why do I have to be the one to initiate contact? A rant. |
| Every relationship is a two way street. We all need to look at ourselves and ask and do our part to maintain a relationship. If you don't like the phone and some family members are tech phobic, can ... |
| Topic: First time in history!!!! The NT/AS open hotline !!!!!! |
alongfortheride
Replies: 1848
Views: 280932
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:18 pm Subject: First time in history!!!! The NT/AS open hotline !!!!!! |
I know that we are sort of short on nts here, but a question for nt girls. Do you absolutely detest skirts?
It's been a while since I considered myself a girl rather than a woman, but no I don't de ... |
| Topic: Social communications therapy? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 11
Views: 1086
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:12 am Subject: Social communications therapy? |
| Thank you SC2010. That makes a lot of sense. The video you posted m ay help him. He is overwhelmed by all the changes and testing he went through so I am going ot put it on the do in the future lis ... |
| Topic: Social communications therapy? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 11
Views: 1086
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:22 pm Subject: Social communications therapy? |
| Good food for thought. I'm not sure. He has an older quite talkative, NT sister and he has had successful conversations modeled around the dinner table every night. He does participate much more at ... |
| Topic: Social communications therapy? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 11
Views: 1086
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:30 pm Subject: Social communications therapy? |
| I did have him read a small three page section of Temple Grandin's book on unwritten social rules shortly after I tried to explain the idea of asking questions to other people to build relationships. ... |
| Topic: Social communications therapy? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 11
Views: 1086
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:22 am Subject: Social communications therapy? |
| He's been tested by the school district. His testing showed he was slightly above his peers for Speech and Language so no help from the school district there. He was doing so well on the pragmatics ... |
| Topic: Social communications therapy? |
alongfortheride
Replies: 11
Views: 1086
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:16 am Subject: Social communications therapy? |
| I have a teen son recently diagnosed w/PDD-NOS and he has some real social communications issues -- initiating a social conversation, not knowing when to jump in to a conversation/both self reported b ... |
| Topic: Help! Moms of adolescent daughters... |
alongfortheride
Replies: 33
Views: 4512
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:32 am Subject: Help! Moms of adolescent daughters... |
| If she doesn't have a sensory issue with pads, can you put pads in all of her underwear when you do laundry so that she is wearing them all the time? I'd rather go with the all the time way and spend ... |
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