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Brittany2907
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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:39 am Post subject: Are you're parents supportive...? |
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I'm just wondering if you're parents support you...
Are you're parents understanding and accepting of you?
Do you feel that you can go to them with any issues that you may have?
I'm just curious...because I feel sometimes that my Mother isn't accepting.
What do you think about you're parents/caregivers in terms of these things?
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Mr_Winston
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Location: Bath (Uni) Cambridge (Home), UK.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I haven't told my parents of my AS and am in absolutely no hurry whatsoever to do so, so their supportiveness in this area in as yet unknown.
Otherwise they're generally ok, if a little pushy sometimes - certainly when I was a bit younger.
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BigT
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Joined: Mar 23, 2007
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Location: Basingstoke, England
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| My parents are very supportive of me, I'm lucky that they love me so much. |
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girl7000
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:05 am Post subject: |
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No, not supportive at all, just abusive.
Well, my Mother does sometimes try in her own way, but she doesn't really believe in disability and illness, she thinks it is just a case of pulling yourself together.
My Father just doesn't get it and is abusive. |
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blackcat
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Age: 17
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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No.Short ,sweet,and to the point am I.
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tomamil
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:18 am Post subject: |
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well, i don't see how my parents could support me. i don't see a problem i could tell them about. they have no powers to help me anyway. they don't know anything about AS, they cannot help me financially if i needed, since i earn more than them. but generally i don't share my problems with anybody. i cannot imagine why i would seek support from other people. i have everything under control. i don't need anybody. (one day i wanted people to help me, but they refused, from that moment on, i don't want anything from anybody.) the only thing i need is a wife i could marry and unfortunately i am not from india where parents find you a spouse  |
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Sopho
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| My mum is supportive about my AS. I don't think my dad even knows I have it. |
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mouapp
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:38 am Post subject: |
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i generally avoid them now
but there generally understanding about things ive needed to share with them .............but then they wouldn't understand anything ive kept from them
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CockneyRebel
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:59 am Post subject: |
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I'm pass the adolecent stage, but I'd still like to post here.
I don't feel that I could talk to my parents with my issues. Not all of them, anyways. The two main things that I can't talk to them about, are weight and my recently developed soiling problem. They don't like bigger people and I happen to be bigger, and the funny thing is that half of my mum's siblings are big.
I also don't talk to them as much as I should. The reason that I don't talk to them as much as I should, is because I was told not to talk through my nose, due to the fact that I have more than just a slight accent, twenty years ago. I've fallen into the habit giving the silent treatment, that doesn't serve me anymore. That's a twenty year habbit.
My Mum also can't accept the changes that I've made since I've moved out. She doesn't like the way that I wear my hair, or the fact that I don't wear bright colours anymore. She doesn't want me. She wants Austin Powers. |
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Kilroy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:56 am Post subject: |
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mmmm
mom she does and tries but there have been times...
although only once or twice
my dad-not really
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yone
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Needs a 'one of them' option.
My parents are currently getting divorced over AS. I don't see any particular support for either of them, except that I know my dad, being a fellow aspie, understands a bit better what I've gone through. But he tends to keep his opinions to himself for a bunch of reasons. It's understandable, because when he does try to say something about me, my mom jumps in and acts like she knows me better. |
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medfly
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no. well, i live with my mom but my dad is kinda ok about me having AS and all that.
here's a typical conversation:
"mom, the doctor said i need to eat red meat and liver, can you prepare something with red meat or liver?"
"youre just a hypochondriac. youre fine"
"but the doctor did a blood test that showed i suffer from iron deficiency"
"just do a second one and youll see youre fine"
"mom, i think i have asperger syndrome"
"stop being a hypochondriac *shows clear misunderstanding* people who are autists are antisocial people that live in their own world. you dont have aspergers."
"can you read this article?"
"i already read one."
my dad is kinda better and nicer, it probably has something to do with the fact we rarely meet and that we talk on MSN/phone. |
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Alternative
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| My mum is more supportive than my dad, considering the face that they're both divorced and my dad's got a girl of his own. |
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livewire
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Not at all really 
When I was younger they just thought I was a bit weird and tried to force me into being the way they thought I should.
Now I'm older and I have been diagnosed, they act like it isn't real, or if it is it doesn't really matter.
They don't seem to realise because I think I was diagnosed so late, so the AS isn't something that affects me, it's who I am in their eyes, when they see me they see the AS, but they can't distinguish, so they don't understand. |
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yvaN_ehT_nioJ
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My parents aren't really supportive of me. my parents are divorced and I live with my mother. I haven't had contact with my father for a few years (probably because I forgot to send a thank you card for a Christmas present that came in the mail from him a few years ago) and my mother just pretty much leaves me to my own things. Which sucks for me because sometimes I don't know how to do things or what to do for a certain thing and when I ask her for help or something she either doesn't help or acts really annoyed and very reluctantly helps me with stuff.
She also thinks of my diagnosis of having AS as just a label. She acts as if it doesn't matter. I quess this can be attributed to me being diagnosed at age 10, which by then my mother was probably used to the way I act.
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