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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Asperger traits in girls |
| NYnewbie |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2006, 8:17 am
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sorry my brain seemed to be moving faster than my fingers when I typed that first comment...
beating your kid because she (or he) is gay is just insane |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: sexual curiosity in aspie |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2006, 9:02 am
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| GroovyDruid that was a well thought out post... thank you for the insight. I kinda see where pyraxis is coming from, she's was just hoping that I'm not a parent that forces our child to be a certain way. We don't think our daughter is gay (and we're trying to "force" her to be straight) but she's cu... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Asperger traits in girls |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2006, 8:41 am
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| beating your kid because she (or he) is just insane. Ster we never paid for any social skill training, our public school (in NY) gives it to our daughter because she has an IEP and improving social skills is one of the goals that we have outlined in the IEP. The school district's social worker and p... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: sexual curiosity in aspie |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2006, 10:22 am
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| While I appreciate your perspective pyraxis I'm not altogether sure that your approach for raising our teenage daughter with AS is appropriate. Here in the Parents Discussion forum most of us are mainly looking to share ideas and experiences for raising children with AS. I get the impression that yo... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Asperger traits in girls |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2006, 9:52 am
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That was exactly the way our daughter did it, maybe 5 yrs ago. ster how old is your daughter?
Now that I think a little more deeply about it, maybe its that my daughter doesn't know what is and isnt an appropriate time to jump into the conversation. So she takes no action at all. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: sexual curiosity in aspie |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2006, 3:43 pm
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| I'm 22 years old and I have no interest in actually having sex myself Sorry but thats the kind of thing we're hoping won't happen. That our daughter won't be able to successfully have a mature relationship of any sort when she gets older. I mean how do you explain to a teenager that (on one hand) i... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: inappropriate jokes and joking around |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2006, 3:12 pm
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| I also feel kind of guilty from telling my daugher to stop telling jokes or speaking in a british accent when I joke around and sometimes talk in funny voices... Sometimes my daughter IS funny and she does tell a witty joke but when it elicits some honest laughter out of us (her parents) she stops a... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Asperger traits in girls |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2006, 2:59 pm
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| our daugher has the same problems. She'll sit down at the lunch table at school and if there is already a conversation going on she doesn't know when or how to just jump in and participate. She'll just sit through the entire lunch and say nothing. Also, when she was younger and in a play setting wit... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: inappropriate jokes and joking around |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2006, 2:59 pm
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| Yes I definitely think our daughter is trying to fit into conversation. Even though we've given tried very hard to give her detailed instructions on how to participate in "small talk" I think she's substituting (or resorting to) humor in its place. Its wild how similar my daughter is to aspiemom and... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: inappropriate jokes and joking around |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2006, 9:52 am
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| Our daughter is 15 and it seems that lately her constant attempts at being humorous have accellerated in the last year or so. Nearly every other thing she says is an attempt at a joke or a humorous quip. She simply tries too hard to be funny. She's memorized all the Austin Powers movies and out of t... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Where does out and out lying play into Asperger's? |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2006, 8:40 am
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| Just because you tell a lie and nobody calls you on it doesn't mean you got away with it! Kids and teenagers in general are very poor liars. I've found that kids and teenagers with AS are EXTREMELY poor liars. But the sad thing is, they don't know how bad they are at lying. After reading all these p... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: inappropriate jokes and joking around |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2006, 8:38 am
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| Our teenage AS daughter has always found humor to be mysteriously intruiging to her. The only kind of humor she really understands is slapstick and things like sarcasm, or cynical humor she doesn't really "get". The problem at hand is that I'm not sure why, but she often tries to make jokes, and jok... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: What would have helped me as an Aspie child |
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Posted: 21 Feb 2006, 3:54 pm
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| So I'm reading this and as a parent I'm getting two different messages. The first is from people with AS who say, (paraphrasing) "my parents should've left me alone to be myself" and other people are saying, "I'm glad my parents forced me to do certain things because its helped me learn to be more s... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: sexual curiosity in aspie |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2006, 10:41 am
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| Its even deeper than just being "quiet" about sex. I'd categorize our 15 y.o. daughter as being asexual to nearly anti-sexual. Like many boys and girls with AS she doesn't pay much attention to her personal grooming, clothes, hair, makeup, jewerly (her mom has worked on all of those things though an... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Why do we rock? |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2006, 4:38 pm
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| I don't think the "if it feels good, do it" philosophy is all that healthy. Speaking as a parent that is. Its been especially difficult teaching our daughter what Is and Isn't socially appropriate either to say or to do. While rocking may be comforting it isn't socially appropriate so its not someth... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Organizational skills help? |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2006, 4:05 pm
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| Something we found to be successful was to make lists for our daughter. If there's something important that needs to be done, then put it on a list. We put lists on the fridge, lists in her room, and eventually -- she started making her own lists! She now keeps a small blackboard in her room that sh... |
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