Zariel wrote:
Hi, I'm Zariel from Oxford, PA. I have four kids total. Two are in the autistic spectrum and the other two are I guess you would call typically developing. However, in my opinion none of my kids are typical--They're great! My oldest is 14 and was diagnosed with PDDNos at 5. He is a freshman in high school doing ok but struggling a bit socially. I'm thinking about suggesting he join the forum since he relates to the computer so well. My other child in the spectrum is 8 and was diagnosed with Asperger's at 6. He loves Star Wars, coming up with new inventions, space,and stayed up to watch the History Channel show on Einstein and seems to be developing an interest in Einstein. My other two kids are a daughter who's 11 and loves Anime, drawing, writing, and running, and a son who's 6 who also loves Star Wars, sports, cars, playing the Wii, and making friends. I also have a husband in the engineering field.
This seemed like a good place to connect with others living with Austism and Aspergers in a positive way.
Hello Zariel
Oldest one
I had the same issue when I was younger and I focused a exaggerated amount of energy to follow the other kids trends and behavior. The best thing I ever did was to just relax and take it a bit more lightly. People would jump up here and there screaming "Hi!" or yelling "come on!" at first I got a bit nervous and irritated and unnecessary tension was building up that I now today understand is a very normal way of expression when you're in a hurry or if you want to heighten the morale and mood of another, we're just a bit delicate when it comes to the loud parts in conversations.
I would often ask them to speak lower, and they would get this "slacker guy" idea of me, that I was laid back and relaxed but I was just being honest asking them to keep quiet as my ears would go off to every loud sounds.
for aspie
This one is quite important since being a small aspie you don't really understand why you have to go to sleep before everyone else when so much information is still out there. I used to hate it when my mother came in and told me to sleep, I hated sleep and my brain was often active at night, about 3-4 hour before fatigue caught up with me and I just fell asleep.
The thing is to let your little aspie know that the information will always be there (not having a recorder when I was small was hard since If I missed it I missed it, heartbreaking at some points) By bringing him home books with pictures of different related matters encourages him to step outside his bubble and everything that relates can be of value as well. Today you can record and even download movies and games of favorite subjects.
go to
www.monkeysee.com (how to videos) and see if you can find anything interesting on the different subjects, as an aspie you can learn very well from just watching instructional videos and you grow quite fond of the process when they show you how to build things.
Buy him some coloring pens and some ready made artwork to fill in, he will then relate and apply his own creative ability from drawing onto the understanding of more complex things.
hope it helps. ^__^
08 Mar 2009, 12:10 am
