Mom & Son, Both Newly-Diagnosed Aspergers

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Hi Thorny_Rose, I discovered aspergers and self a few years ago along with my older son, now 15, a roller coaster of a ride to say the least, but it has now platitude out and we are both happy and proud to at last have an identity and at least can allowed ourselves... still working on others ...

He's got much greater aggravations than that example...I was understating

It's great here. It feels like home, oddly enough.

hi! I'm new here too...well I registered a while back, but just posted tonight.

My son has Autism..newly diagnosed as well, and I am pretty certain that I have Asperger's, just no official diagnosis yet.I suspect that my oldest has it as well. I hear you on the being able to relate to your child with an ASD. We are in our own little sensory world here and my husband often bears the brunt of it lol

I have always had an exceptionally high vocabulary and a propensity for writing, but never can get my thoughts gathered either. Maybe a refresher course in creative writing will do the trick

I was about to say "Good." but that might not have been very successfull, so I'll say:
Nice to hear that you are not one of those people who allways thinks you(/your kids/husband/family etc etc...) allways has it worse than everyone els.
Of course it's not good that wasn't his biggest problem.

Yeah, it's nice to speak to people that understands. (for once )


Hi to you too.

Hi Thorny Rose,

When at work I use the Adobe suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop).
I can't really get together and chat other than on the boards because I only have time on my breaks. When I'm at home my husband is pretty much constantly on the computer so I usually don't use it there.

I loved it when you talked about having the narration in your head! I have always had that and I think that is why I have always felt that I could be a writer. I just need to stay focused and finish my writing projects. Your success is a good incentive.

It IS an identity, isn't it? I kept telling my son, "It's not a disease, it's not that something's "wrong" with us, we're just different...Although we're the same to each other, we're "different" to everyone else in the world...This diagnosis just means that we have a name for who we are, and there are others like us out there."

Poor kid. At the moment he's in a hacker war with his step-dad. My hubby's putting in a series of firewalls, and my son hacks them. Right now, his comp is being reformatted, introduced to a fun little OS called Linux (not sure whether it's going to be Ubuntu, SUSE, or Mint...Don't want Linspire!) dual-booted with Win2k, and the hard drive converted from FAT32 to NTFS.

The boy's already killed Vista's firewall, and hacked out Kapernsky and ZoneAlarm. It's just too bad he didn't find the keystroke logger that recorded what he did

I confess...I invested in collegiate writing guides, read three of them, then went back to writing.

Heck, that brings me to another question...Is fast reading a symptom?

People like that drive me batty. You say you've been in a hurricane, and they come back with something like they've been in a typhoon in southeast Asia where the winds were so bad that fish were being plucked out of the sea by sheer negative air pressure, and the person narrowly dodged getting whiplash from being hit by a flying nurse whale that was carrying a bo, and was being ridden by a rhesus monkey wearing a pink tutu.

There's always going to be someone worse off than us, and that's cool. Every person's life has its own set of challenges. On the plus side, people like that make me feel lucky that I'm surrounded by people who love me, care about me and aren't in competition for who's got the suckiest life.

At this writing, we have five working computers in the house, and approximately 16 non-working or semi-stripped towers lying about the "computer room". We can send you one on which you can write...It may roll over and play dead if you try to install Print Shop 1.0 on it, but you'd still be able to boot the word processing function

My husband used to teach IT at a local college, and with my son having his propensity towards engineering, it makes for a home full of love, techie jargon and randomly scattered IDEE cables. I have to fight with my hubby to keep him from converting my beloved Vista laptop to a dual-boot OS with Linux and Gimp (the bane of my artistic abilities). I love Paint Shop Pro, I've been working with it since 2000, and I tend to be quite creative with it.

lol I do better with classroom instruction. I get bored easily with how to guides...can I just gouge my eyes with sporks? As far as the creative writing class, I just need something to get me going. I don't know if that is a trait or not, but I sure do it a lot.

Also on the fast reading, I don't know if that is a trait either, but I do it too. Always have. In school I was usually several grades ahead of my grade in reading. It would be interesting to know if that is a Aspergers trait.