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 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Destructive but non-communicative : is an iPad a good idea?

Posted: 28 Aug 2012, 1:40 pm 

Replies: 22
Views: 4,484


What about an ipod touch instead? They cost far less than an ipad, do pretty well all the same stuff, and you can buy very rugged cases for them like the ones from otterbox that make them virtually indestructible.

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Child steals and hides food compulsively. Aspie trait?

Posted: 20 Aug 2012, 10:05 am 

Replies: 39
Views: 64,907


I did this when I was younger too, but only for the few years surrounding puberty (from about 12-15yo). I had almost painfully intense sugar cravings during that time. My mom didn't believe in buying junk food or processed foods, so I would sneak sugar, honey, bittersweet baker's chocolate -anything...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Inappropriate Affection toward Young Girls

Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 4:27 pm 

Replies: 31
Views: 9,028


As someone who was a girl with an uncle pretty much exactly like this, you need to do something now. Not trying to scare you, but you might have already waited far too long to do anything. The time to act is yesterday, SAY something to the parents and I would be kind but blunt. say "I'm worried som...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Role playing games (RPG) for social skill development?

Posted: 18 Jul 2012, 10:05 am 

Replies: 26
Views: 6,022


I think RPG games can be a great way to grow social skills. I started a DnD group here at home for my sons this year (4E), and orchestrated getting one started at school as well. We did run into issues with the negative stigma that is still attached to DnD, but were able to educate our way through i...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Why would my daughter do this?! !?

Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 1:34 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 2,081


I say let her make her own choices about personal appearance. If her grades are good and she's not getting into trouble, maybe a few piercings are no big deal? You probably have your hands full as a single mom, and it must have been so hard on all of you losing your husband when they were so young, ...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Playdates, and problems.

Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 1:30 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,305


Oy. I am trying to think of a way to walk the line between honesty and tmi. Maybe say you are concerned about the lack of supervision, as opposed to mentioning the nudity? I know that is a problem, too, because if your child says that you don't think there is enough supervision to the other child a...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Dealing with chronic depression, anxiety and irritability...

Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 12:21 pm 

Replies: 15
Views: 3,252


Anti depressants were recommended for my son this past March. He is 12yo. We wanted to try anything else that we could first. We looked at sleep, diet and exercise first, tried some supplements and then moved on to some quality of life measures. By "quality of life" I mean, we looked carefully at th...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Aspergers subtypes -- The "Structure-Dependent" Ch

Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 12:51 pm 

Replies: 11
Views: 3,132


The "acting in" type would be a fairly accurate description of my sons.

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Aspergers subtypes -- The Emotional Aspergers Child

Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 12:48 pm 

Replies: 16
Views: 7,331


According to this I think my sons would be predominately the "OCD type" and I would be the "daydreaming". It is interesting, but doesn't seem all that helpful to me? Some of the parenting advice given seems sound, but some I would take with a large "grain of salt".

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Swim lessons

Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 12:30 pm 

Replies: 40
Views: 8,909


This sounds exactly like my sons at that age. As a matter of fact swimming lessons were one of our first major cues that there were significant differences between them and their same age peers. We now do private or semi-private swimming lessons (1:1 or 2:1 kid to instructor ratio). This helps with ...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: How Aspies Show Love to their Children

Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 1:00 pm 

Replies: 17
Views: 3,718


I have a bit of a different feeling on this than most of the PPs have expressed. I think as parents the onus is on us to meet our child's needs. This may mean anything from learning not to yell to becoming a better cook so you can prepare more nutritious meals to learning to be more social so you ca...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Mum needs advice on Asperger & Angry Birds obsession

Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 10:28 am 

Replies: 37
Views: 9,997


I understand how important special interests are. And I do want to add that he can play the 'real' game (board game) as much as he want. I just think it's important that he keeps on drawing, constructing, playing with clay, playing outside, climbing trees, well, everything- and not simply play iPad...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Mum needs advice on Asperger & Angry Birds obsession

Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 10:56 am 

Replies: 37
Views: 9,997


This post made me smile, because I got a mental picture of my sons at 5 following me around the house as I tried to do housework talking and talking and talking about superheroes, which was their common obsession right after trains and before Bionicles. :D And things haven't changed too much, I had ...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Son becoming a bully

Posted: 21 Jun 2012, 5:59 pm 

Replies: 20
Views: 3,003


Lots of good advice already on the bullying. I just wanted to ask, does he have to be on facebook? It sounds like he's not really ready to tackle the types of social interaction there successfully, and will likely just end up making everything worse for himself at school. Can he hone his text-based ...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: I had a mama bear outburst

Posted: 21 Jun 2012, 5:49 pm 

Replies: 15
Views: 2,246


NigNag wrote:
Wow. that was very insensitive, regardless of a disability being present.
I would NEVER imagine taking a picture like that when ANY child was having a meltdown.



Agreed! WTH? I would have been furious.

I am so sorry for you and your daughter. That really sucks! :(

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Marital strain?

Posted: 16 Jun 2012, 12:40 pm 

Replies: 15
Views: 2,962


I thought for a long time about posting this topic because it has been pretty stressful for me. From birth our AS daughter was a "high need baby" and initially my wife was 110% focused on doing whatever was required to help her. But over time our daughter became more difficult and my wife became le...
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