Siblings of Autistic Children.......

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I agree with that. I never let my son take the bus because kids were bullies. Maybe you can't take your kids to school. My daughter makes sure she take her daughter out by herself for alone time. I take both of the kids on outings alone to give them both seperate time. I also have a workbook I will get you the name of that we are taking around to different schools on Bullies. We can have it sent to the school. Grandparents Autism Network is doing it. I am working with my granddaughter right now with the workbook so hopefully she will learn fast about her brother. We can have it sent to different States. I am in Southern California.

I hate my NT brother. He has his obnoxious friends round our house everytime we're not at school, even early in the morning (9am is early for me, I'm semi-nocturnal given half a chance). And when I try and be friendly towards them, they make fun of me. I don't care if they're younger than me, they're horrible people and they can rot in hell for all I care.

People blame my autistic behaviour for his copycat behaviour. I'm not his freakin' babysitter, I never ASKED to be in the same family/town/hemisphere as him, did I?!

My 29 year old son is asleep as I write this. His sister does not understand why he likes
to stay awake all night and sleep by day. He says it is not that he likes to it is just the
way he is wired. He told me to wake him up at 12:30 because he has an appt. But if not he would sleep until 3 probably. Unless he was working. He works in Hollywood as a TV Editor. But he is not working right now. He has been this way since he was a baby. He never could sleep. Her son cannont sleep at night so she should understand but she doesn't. She has insomnia also and so do I. But she still doesn't understand. She even thinks her brother might has some Autsim or Aspie signs. He is ADHD like I said and she has ADD. I am not an early riser either but my dog is and it drives me crazy. My son sometimes comes home at 4 a.m. and I can hear the door and it wakes me up. But you just have to deal with it I guess. I thought at my age I wouldn't have to deal with all of this either. The only one I get mad at though is my dog. Sorry you are having trouble. My kids still fight and they don't even live together anymore. They were fighting last night because my son wouldn't give his father a ride home from his sisters house. He was on a date and wouldn't tell his sister that for some reason. Hope you get some sleep.

I'm an extreme night owl, too, given half a chance. I was born at 3 a.m., and my mom says "that has always been your favorite time of day"--and it is! I didn't sleep through the night until I was five. Not five months; five years. Although, really, I'm pretty sure it wasn't "sleeping through the night"; I had simply learned to be quiet when I woke up and it was dark.

At the moment, I take melatonin to keep my sleep cycle on a normal schedule, which makes sense because we know melatonin works for jet lag, and I might as well be on permanent jet lag, since this time zone doesn't match my internal one. I hate having to do it, though. I wish I could be nocturnal.

Sorry to hear your son goes through it. Unfortunately my sister is quite popular and most kids "know" me cause of my sister. She always joined in on the teasing.

Bullying is the suck. I've had a different experience as I'm the older sibling, but it still hurts. A lot.

Look up 'Love and Logic', they have some great tools for bullying as well as conversation starters and other tidbits.

My GS takes melatonin but still wakes up all night. My post time is all messed up. It is Thursday. But it says it is Friday on everyone's post. I tried to fix it but couldn't fix it.
Except a few people their posts are correct. Oh well. I tried his meatonin once and it made me wake up every few hours. I didn't like it. I would rather stay awake. I usually get 3 to 4 hours sleep. I could probably sleep more if it wasn't for the dog waking me up and hearing my son come home. But I have always had trouble sleeping also. When I sleep over at my daughters house to help out with the kids I don't sleep at all.

When my son was in school they would be so mean to him because he was short. Plus the ADHD thing. So he was always changing schools. He finally liked the last school he changed to. My GS is going to be tall. His GF is 6'7". My son wasn't that lucky. His grandfathers were short. Kids would put him in the trash can. If he fought back he would get in trouble. The other kids never got in trouble. So we would just take him out of that school. That is one of the reasons his sister homeschools her daughter. But she does go to a Charter School two days a week.

My youngest brother is at least ten years older than me and aside from John and my middle brother's college and med school buddies, I can't remember my brother's friends having any problems with me. They just thought my brothers had the cutest little sister. I suppose if any of their friends did say negetive things about me, my brothers would no longer have anything to do with them.

my sister both hated me when I was younger, claimed I embaressed them. Nothing I could do about that. My step sister now enjoys being around me, and I am one of a few people she can have intellectual discourse with. My other sister still hates me.

I have three younger siblings, and I have no idea how they feel about my being autistic, since we don't talk to each other.

We were close in childhood. We'd spend the entire summer at the cottage, so we were all out of the social loop compared to most kids, and we played with each other a lot more than is usual, I think. Also, no buses, thank goodness. We walked to school.

I think my siblings are more embarrassed by me now, since I'm a chronic welfare recipient, then they were in school. I was a straight A student and helped in the school band, which helped make me less embarrassing, I think.

My 3 year old GS that has Autism won the Duckie race yesterday at Disneyland. His 6 year old sister was so mad she ran off. He handed her his sticker that said he won and he took her sticker. She still was crying and didn't care. She wanted to go home. We go once a week so it really doesn't matter. He did throw it in before everyone else but he was having fun. No one else ran off crying and they didn't care he won. They all stayed and raced some more with him. But my GD would not. She blamed his Autism as usual.
He was so proud showing everyone the other sticker that he was in a race. He cannot talk. He just uses ASL. He has Apraxia also. All she could say was look at him. It is always about him. I am hoping someday she will grow out of this. I remember my DD being the same way. But never saying much about it. Now she is having to live with it with her kids. It is funny though my GD is so much like her uncle that has the ADHD. They have the same attitude. I tell her that sometimes. She said he must be really smart then. They fight a lot. They used to sign mean things to each other as a joke then they would get in a fight about it. I told them they were both acting younger than my little GS.

help my step mom is unfair

can someone help me i dont get it at all i have adhd and still my step mom hates it when my mom lets me do stuff others cant but when my step lets her kids do things we cant she yells at my mom cause of it she thinks just because her kids have austim they should get everything they want and me and my siblings shouldnt