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MsBehaviour
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Joined: Oct 27, 2007
Age: 36
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Location: West Auckland, New Zealand
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I ran away from home at sixteen and can remember clearly how misunderstood I felt as neither myself or my Mum knew that I was an aspie. I am more than happy to chat to you privately about being an aspie teen, or your daughter (in confidence as there must be absolute trust) if chatting to an older girl may help.
We can be very mature and yet raging hormones make our frontal lobes go out of whack for a few years just like NT teens. I was often accused of lying when I wasn't technically, and it made me stop telling my family about anything I was going through unfortunately. When I needed support the most I was on my own trying to deal with it. Now is the time to lay down the trust and open up the communication channels with her as a young adult.
I'm now in my mid thirties and feel like I have a much clearer perspective on an awful time that led to a suicide attempt. However I made it thankfully, have had a fun life, am happily married and I run a dance music label so I work with some amazing teenagers. We often don't give them enough credit or realise what they are capable of. I think young people today are great.
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Kimmie
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Joined: Feb 19, 2008
Age: 39
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I glad I came across this topic. I have a 10 yr old aspie son who tells some wild tales. One way I figured out if he was telling "stories" (lying) was to go right to the source. If he came home and told me that he was sent to the office at school I usually say really well I guess I need to call the school and find out why you were sent to the office. Then he changes his story completly what he's telling is usually something that happen to another kid in his class. I do encourage him to write his "stories" in a journal. He has such an imagination he amazes me with what he can come up with. So its good to see that my son is not alone in this.  |
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asplanet
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Joined: Nov 11, 2007
Posts: 2269
Location: Cyberspace, New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| MsBehaviour wrote: | I ran away from home at sixteen and can remember clearly how misunderstood I felt as neither myself or my Mum knew that I was an aspie. I am more than happy to chat to you privately about being an aspie teen, or your daughter (in confidence as there must be absolute trust) if chatting to an older girl may help.
We can be very mature and yet raging hormones make our frontal lobes go out of whack for a few years just like NT teens. I was often accused of lying when I wasn't technically, and it made me stop telling my family about anything I was going through unfortunately. When I needed support the most I was on my own trying to deal with it. Now is the time to lay down the trust and open up the communication channels with her as a young adult.
I'm now in my mid thirties and feel like I have a much clearer perspective on an awful time that led to a suicide attempt. However I made it thankfully, have had a fun life, am happily married and I run a dance music label so I work with some amazing teenagers. We often don't give them enough credit or realise what they are capable of. I think young people today are great. |
I found your account refreshing to hear such an open and honest opinion. Young adults is one of the reasons I'm trying to help raise awareness as like you I suffered through out my teens and know how important it is for parents to try and understand and keep communications open no matter what, as these young adult can be so venerable and here in NZ there is so little outside support for them at present.
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