HEY EVERYONE, I AM SIMPS AND I AM LOSING IT! MY 11 YR OLD HAS BEEN DXD W/ ASPERGERS AND TOURETTES AND I AM GOING NUTS TRYING TO FIGURE THIS CHILD OUT. HE IS A SWEETHEART MOST OF THE TIME BUT HOLY COW, HE CAN BE JUST SO OFF THE WALL OTHER TIMES I DON'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE HIM WO/ HIM FEELING LIKE I DON'T CARE ABOUT HIS DXS, WHICH I DO OF COURSE BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS ILLNESS AND WHAT IS PRE-PUBESCENT BULL CRAP! SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I AM HIS ONLY FRIEND AND THAT I LET HIM DOWN BY NOT FULLY UNDERSTANDING HOW HE TICS...NO TOURETTES PUN INTENDED...I AM JUST PLAIN LOST...
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 350 Location: San Marcos, CA
31 Mar 2006, 6:22 pm
Check out the parents forum, it might give you some ideas that will help.
_________________ I hate hearing, "you don't seem autistic/aspie". I have a nagging suspicion most people have no idea what autistic or aspie "seem" like in the first place...