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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011, 12:30 pm
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| I added clarifications to my last post that may have been missed by timing. Just FYI. And it's one thing to admit you are having trouble with the tone of some of posts, or to say you disagree, which most people can understand, and another to mock the honest efforts behind some of the posts. You thr... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011, 11:13 am
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| draelyn, Mother_Knows_Best, and DW a Mom, Thank you for all the details about the executive function problem - they certainly help, as this is one of his main weakness areas and one that I am not 100% sure how to handle. Yes, I will try the caffeine test as soon as I am back in the States. It was ju... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011, 7:47 am
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| Jeepers Goodolddays! The horse thats been been beaten to death here is the one where you get tons of advice and reject it all , becasue it's not exactly what you want to hear. I continue to be puzzled. Please give an example of some solid advice I rejected because I did not want to hear it. The onl... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011, 7:04 am
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| Hello to you too btbnnyr! Thank you for your cents but you gave me too much money and I am going to have to give you your rest back. You HAD TO speak, didn't you? Despite the fact that you didn't add zip to the discussion. But I hear it feels really good for some people to just hear themselves talk... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011, 7:03 am
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| goodolddays again you miss the point, Many posts have made comments about how intelligent you are? My POINT is that regardless of my child's difficulties that when he does something that he loves he does it to a high standard, fully committed despite the stress it causes him at times. It doesn't ma... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011, 6:23 am
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| Wow, after reading this thread, I can say that I truly admire the wisdom and tolerance of the posters on this forum. Everyone else has said it so thoroughly and well that I have nothing to contribute except my 237 cents of brutal honesty. Dear OP, your thread is not about AS or a child with AS. I c... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2011, 7:21 pm
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| Addition: I finished reading Tracker's book. Here's what the book reminded me of: long before I found out about my son's AS dx, I used to spend many hours, on and offline, arguing EXACTLY for the kind of parenting Tracker prescribes in his book!! Ironically enough. I only managed to attract enemies ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2011, 1:45 pm
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| I don't know how much you've read of my posts because you don't really address me, but I hope you aren't discounting them outright, or only taking to heart the few sentences you like best. Just wanted to say, DW_a_mom, that I HAVE been reading your messages and I have digested every line. I would h... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2011, 3:26 am
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| Tracker, I was going to continue to reply in more details to your previous post but I don't think this is the right thing to do at this point. It is becoming increasingly apparent that people on this forum don't (or rather won't) understand zilch about my son, myself or my family. You have construct... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 16 Jul 2011, 10:05 am
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| Just because somebody says something like 'accept the autism' doesn't make it good advice, and you have every right to question it. Dear Tracker, What most people seemed to have failed to understand is that I DO accept that my son has SOMETHING neurological. Call it Aspergers if you wish - as this ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011, 11:24 am
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| I have a life trajectory that is almost textbook AS. So OK, I may be AS. No one will ever know for sure because I will not bother to investigate to have an official dx confirmed or excluded. I have strong AS-like details in my early biography but also strong NT traits in my psychology. I personally ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2011, 3:06 am
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| So I guess what I'd like to be sure of here is that when you say this, you aren't saying you won't give him support, and you aren't saying that you'll pretend he doesn't have sensory or anxiety issues when he does, etc. You are only saying that you look at this child and know him well enough to bel... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Avoiding People Completely |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011, 3:53 pm
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| I generally avoid most people because I've found that most people are either too sensitive or unable to have an intelligent conversation. It's hard to find just one or the other, but finding someone that's both of those things is rare. Those are the people that I can have a ridiculously silly conve... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011, 3:30 pm
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| Why not? I think it was in a 2000 Wired magazine article that it was pointed out that 300 years ago someone with AS might have simply chosen a life in a monastery, where life was lived quietly and great advancements in thinking were made. Has it occurred to you that our kids would have been just fi... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011, 2:04 pm
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| Granted, as soon as we get the slightest indication that he is being bullied at school, we will take him out and start homeschooling him. I can guarantee you I will not allow bullying to happen. I am the parent-from-Hel* who would give the school much tougher grief than it would be wise to write ab... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Devastated - please help! |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2011, 12:20 pm
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| Einstein said "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Einstein was a smart man. That being said, while fish are never in a position to climb trees, AS kids MUST learn the ways of this world. They ARE p... |
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