What do your parents do?

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My dad's a janitor and my mum doesn't work.

My father was a psychotherapist mostly with the criminally insane and my mother was an RN, but now runs her own business with my stepdad doing appraisals.

When he was alive, my father was an electrician. My mother is a teaching assistant and also does some appraisal work on the side.

Were your parents eager to seek professional head doctors for you?

My father was a mechanical engineer that worked on various space projects for a large defense contractor. My mom stayed at home. I am a Sr. materials engineering technician meaning that I do most of the duties of an engineer but I don't get paid like one.

Where I work, I seem to notice quite a few engineers have Aspie traits.

Father is a retired airline pilot. Mother is a retired food consultant and author.

Upper Class most of my life. My father is a corporate lawyer. My mother just retired, but previously she was Head of an Independent girls' school.

As for sending me to a "head doctor," they did. When I was 13 and 14 I was dragged kicking and screaming to a psycologist whom I detested with every fibre of my being. She is probably the worst psycologist in the history of the world. When I was 17 and a senior in high school, my mother asked if I'd like to see someone (to which I said, "Yes, anyone but Mary E--!"). I then saw a fabulous psychiatrist until I went to college; she saw I was depressed and put me on meds. I've pretty much kept myself in therapy since. I've found it helps to have someone who I feel is "on my side" in life.

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My dad is a Certified Public Accountant who currently works for a Saudi Aramco-owned energy company in KSA.
My mom is a Senior Director for the Research and Statistics Division in our country's Department of Education.

We are a lower-class-turned-well-to-do, and we were trained to be low profile.

My dad was captain of cargo ships. He abandoned me completely when I was eight years old. My mother, not worth mentioning.

my parents are both retired, my father is 69 and my mother is 61.

my father was in the Australian SAS, and then later worked for another Government dept. (involving foreign intelligence and security) after recovery from being repatriated due to injury.

Australian SAS wikipedia entry: (click)

my mother was a theatre/surgical nurse, and then became a domestic engineer .

my father retired from Australian defence/intelligence as a university educated engineer and got involved in the mining industry within Australia... the rest of his career was associated with mining, metal refining processes, and later making jewellery and sculpting from precious metal.

Howdy.

I heard Australia has lots of jobs for the mining engineers. Many ppl at my school go to australia. I don't like mining engineering, mineral leaching that kind of stuff. I think it's dirty job.
I was trained as a petrochemical engineer, but I don't like it either. I like electrochemical engineering. It's much more clean, so I shall become one.

hi androol, job availability is a little up and down in the Australian mining industry - there are cycles of expansion and then cycles of streamlined production (max. profit is the goal)... it is best to try and secure a career opportunity on an up-swing and then perform extra well so you can have security when things tighten down (as they will and do).

in my "back yard", southern queensland, there is currently a ramping up of resource exploration and mining, power generation, industrial development, and supporting infrastructure (road, rail etc) - particularly the surat basin region. there is a great reserve of natural gas, and peabody is ratcheting up their coal project at wilkie creek.

in saying all of this, yes - mining engineering is a dirty job, as is petrochemical engineering... it seems that in Australia that's where the money is at... doing dirty work! hehe



no, i only sought help via my own GP in the last 18 months. i was ultimately referred to a psychiatrist that diagnosed me as Asperger's against DSM IV criteria, and now my psychiatrist (as part of her treatment plan) is referring me on to a psychologist that specialises in autism spectrum diagnosis and cognitive behavioural therapy. as a child and teenager i think i slipped through the cracks, as the weird new-guy, and avoided being diagnosed (avoided detection) due to attending 10 different schools.

it seems that both my parents do not want to think of me being anything more than shy and having "different" priorities... even with careful explanation that Asperger's is part of a spectrum of diagnosis; where an individual may be affected in some ways and not in others.

for better or worse, recognising the need to learn and comply with social norms (developing a "human" acting ability) can help mask Asperger's traits - and i think it is something that a number of us have maybe managed to do (had to do) since early teens. i say that because that's when (as a young teenager) i guess i became more self aware (for want of a better term), realising how i was different... and, for me, this may be a contributing factor in my parents' reluctance to accept diagnosis now as a 29 year old.

My mum is a radiology nurse, and my dad is a lumberjack.

My dad sells high-end pianos (and he is a lifelong musician)
My mom is an artist..when she had a job...worked in the paper department of an art supply store.
She was also a portrait artist at Astroworld...but she has stayed at home for several years, where she mantains a large herd of cats and obsessively does stuff with raw foods and whatnot.

My mom is a teacher, she is teaching 4th grade this school year.