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I am 29 and I have a son who is 8. We are both getting formally diagnosed with Asperger's tomorrow.

I know I know.... " getting diagnosed tomorrow?" Well; the Dr. told me he is 95% sure of what my son has and tomorrow he would be laying down the diagnoses for him. He also has been hinting at and warming me up to the possibility that I also have Asperger's. I expect him to diagnose me as well.

I am here looking for parenting help and maybe some help for myself.

We are having a horrible time with our son completing his homework on time. I am having a horrible time completing my work at work. Last week my sweet sensitive boy BIT someone at school. I almost died. The week before he got sent to principles office for playing guns in the bathroom. ( I don't allow guns in my home, let alone playing with them.) The principle said my son is always in the office for never completing his work, apparently he has missed more recess this year than he has gotten to enjoy. This year has been hell.

We are very lucky, our school has been amazing to us. They are as anxious for a diagnoses as we are so they can set our son up on a 504 and IEP if needed.... The state will not allow the teacher to make any concessions for him with out a diagnoses.

After 3 months of neurologists, pediatricians, EEGs, metabolic studies, blood work, panic attacks, possible absence seizures.... opinion after opinion... ( including one Dr. with the audacity to tell me my son has "behavioral issues" because my son knew more about anatomy than he did.) ..... we finally found a psychologist who has experience with kids like our son. ( You know; brilliant, dippy, loving, shy, humorous, inventive, easily distracted and bored but with a heart of gold (or iron ore as the case may be.)

Tomorrow........ I will have that magic piece of scribbled paper we have been fighting so hard to get.



Anyhow.... hello....

I'm dyp... pleased ta meet ya.

All the Wrong Planet best to you, dyp, and to your son; and welcome to the WP community. You may wish to check out the Parents Forum: http://www.wrongplanet.net/forum19.html

Welcome to WP! You are at the right place. I joined not too long ago and have found so much info and lots of great people too. Wish you the best with you little aspie.

Public School is terrible.
I found that a lot of gaming helped me through hard times.
Along with machinima's. Laugh every time I see one.
Eventually I landed on Xfire and now have a growing community going on their
http://www.xfire.com/profile/mmstick/

A lot of that homework is useless. It only causes one to become gravely depressed.
I had serious problems finishing my homework.
I would spend all day and all night and not get any sleep at all doing the homework.
It's not that it was hard but I had too much of it.
I was sent to the office for supposedly not doing any of my work.
That was totally untrue.
After having the school system discriminate me daily I dropped out and went through self learning. You can find me now doing a lot of researching. Always researching. I find enjoyment researching Quantum Physics and Theoretical Physics .
The school system only wanted my test scores....
I always score incredibly high and having a IQ percentile of in the 98-99% range helps.

To WrongPlanet!! !