23 Aug 2010, 12:02 am
Saja wrote:
As I wrote in an earlier post, I think the best thing is to know about your AS before you have kids, so you can structure things to work well for you.
I wish I had...I only found out 2 years ago....
My son turns 16 in 2 days!
I had no idea I was on the spectrum...
It has not been fun...It could have been a great experience
if I'd known what the deal was and where to go for support.
He is a good kid and has a few aspie traits.
But being a teenager and not fully understanding what
aspergers is he thinks I'm weird and acts like he's really
embarassed of my aspie behavior....Does anyone else
have this problem? We use to be very close until he
got old enough to tell I was not like his friends' moms.
Last edited by anjie on 23 Aug 2010, 2:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
23 Aug 2010, 1:07 am
anjie wrote:
He is a good kid and has a few aspie traits.
But being a teenager and not fully understanding what
aspergers is he thinks I'm weird and acts like he's really
embarassed of my aspie behavior....Does anyone else
have this problem? We use to be very close until he
got old enough to tell I was not like his friends' moms.
But being a teenager and not fully understanding what
aspergers is he thinks I'm weird and acts like he's really
embarassed of my aspie behavior....Does anyone else
have this problem? We use to be very close until he
got old enough to tell I was not like his friends' moms.
I can only assure if it wasn't your AS he had found to be embarrassed about, it would have been something else. Being utterly and completely embarrassed by mom and dad is a rite of passage for teenagers, a natural part of obtaining their separate future adult identities. Once those are in place, the embarrassment passes and you develop a new and different relationship with your kids.
I haven't been through it yet as a mom, but I very much remember going through it as a teen.
23 Aug 2010, 1:21 am
anjie wrote:
We use to be very close until he
got old enough to tell I was not like his friends' moms.
got old enough to tell I was not like his friends' moms.
What DW said. Normal teen stuff. He would react the same way if you were June Cleaver.
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