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Message |
 Topic: 9 year old aspie son & being different |
rachel46
Replies: 11
Views: 210
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 Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:27 pm Subject: 9 year old aspie son & being different |
Seems that age 9 is sort of a watershed year since that's when everything came to a head for my son in public school, he was dx'd with AS and we decided to homeschool.
He is now 11 and self-awarene ... |
| Topic: Have a setback or is he regressing? |
rachel46
Replies: 12
Views: 204
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:06 am Subject: Have a setback or is he regressing? |
He just prefers to be alone and very very quiet like almost silent.
This is how your son is- respect it and you'll have much less angst.
He is spending both breaks alone and he likes it. I don' ... |
| Topic: Parents.. do you ever feel lonely? |
rachel46
Replies: 15
Views: 201
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:03 pm Subject: Parents.. do you ever feel lonely? |
Laura,
I definitely know where you're coming from. My son is now 11 and since he was born I have been a stay-at-home mom. I've worked only when he was in school or at night when my husband was home ... |
| Topic: Give me drugs so that I won’t be afraid. |
rachel46
Replies: 29
Views: 534
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:12 am Subject: Give me drugs so that I won’t be afraid. |
| I will change my previous comment to add "public school, in general, is not a place where great learning takes place....." And, obviously, there are exceptions, as with everything in life. I figu ... |
| Topic: Adult ADD |
rachel46
Replies: 13
Views: 243
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:06 am Subject: Adult ADD |
| I have no idea how old you are but is it possible you are pre-menopausal? I am 47 and started a few years ago with the erratic periods, foggy thinking, forgetfulness, horrible sleep patterns - someti ... |
| Topic: Give me drugs so that I won’t be afraid. |
rachel46
Replies: 29
Views: 534
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:24 am Subject: Give me drugs so that I won’t be afraid. |
Your post was very moving and just reiterates what I've been thinking since I pulled my now 11 yr. old son out.
I read a newspaper article in which the reporter found homeschooling an odd choice ... |
| Topic: changing poopy diaper and playing with it |
rachel46
Replies: 5
Views: 171
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:46 pm Subject: changing poopy diaper and playing with it |
PLEASE! Don't slap her 
Just always make sure she has something she loves in her hands and is distracted before you start changing her- toy,book, animal, any object will do. THis always worked ... |
| Topic: I can't stand the looks I get!!! |
rachel46
Replies: 15
Views: 321
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:17 pm Subject: I can't stand the looks I get!!! |
| One thing you'll learn is when it's just not worth it to take him somewhere. There are places that we finally figured out my son does not want to go - any place loud, crowded and hot. It has gotten ... |
| Topic: Can any parents describe how their AS 3-4 year old was like? |
rachel46
Replies: 18
Views: 420
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:11 pm Subject: Can any parents describe how their AS 3-4 year old was like? |
| My son (now 11) had a HUGE Thomas the Tank engine preoccupation around 3 and 4 and 5. We had every single engine, book, game, video imaginable - but he loved it. he would do other things too but that ... |
| Topic: I can't stand the looks I get!!! |
rachel46
Replies: 15
Views: 321
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:48 pm Subject: I can't stand the looks I get!!! |
still thinks we should spank.
OMG! please don't spank the poor kid - you just said in your post that you know your son is a good kid and just can't handle things right now- he's also 4! That's ha ... |
| Topic: Son getting bullied |
rachel46
Replies: 14
Views: 351
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:41 pm Subject: Son getting bullied |
I know we all need our time to ourselves
My son needs a lot of alone time - I used to worry about it,but he can happily amuse himself with books, tv, computer, games, and he also just likes to thin ... |
| Topic: Son getting bullied |
rachel46
Replies: 14
Views: 351
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:25 am Subject: Son getting bullied |
You wanted advice - here's some. Listen to your son.
He asked if he could stay in the bedroom- he did not want to play with them - why did you encourage it when you knew he didn't want to?
My s ... |
| Topic: Aspie daughter's swimming lesson |
rachel46
Replies: 29
Views: 642
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:12 am Subject: Aspie daughter's swimming lesson |
| She's 4! Unless you are training her for the next Olympics why can't she enjoy swimming? Why the push for her to get her face wet? She'll do it when she's ready. I've taken my son to swimming lesso ... |
| Topic: Does anyone else homeschool their child with ASD? |
rachel46
Replies: 23
Views: 456
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:17 am Subject: Does anyone else homeschool their child with ASD? |
| I'm a parent of an 11 yr. old son -AS- and we have homeschooled for 2 years. He did public school for 4 years and it was OK until 3rd grade. Long story short, my son was extremely smart, not a behavio ... |
| Topic: Hand flapping |
rachel46
Replies: 6
Views: 228
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:36 am Subject: Hand flapping |
| My son is 11 -dx'd Aspergers. He wasn't diagnosed until around age 9 and he has always hand flapped. When he was little it wasn't a "red flag" because he always did it when he was excited and it look ... |
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