how do i do it irritate so many so fast.

[59Lark]

everycase different with aspbergers

Dear Lady, it sounds like your sister has a more extreme case than my daughter but it wouldnt have gone undiagnoised as long as my daughters with the symptons as pronounced. MY daughter for a while went to a private school and hid her ailment from the staff and instead vented on her family as soon as she got home. The staff went as far as calling childrens aid on us, unknown to us because they felt they she was abused or depresssed instead they were causing it because they pressured her to go to highschool when she finished the private school . I have yet to run into that principal on the street and tell her how much grief she caused me and money that i dont have to straighten this out. The worst of it was , i told the childrens aid worker that i suspected she had asbergers she looks at my daughter for two seconds and says she doesnthave asbergers then with a stupid look says what is asbergers? how do you send people out to do this job and have them this dumb and misinformed on this conditon , now that its more likely for your child to have autism a form of it, than your child to have a major accident in the playground. ONE in ten, is a figure that i saw on a tv commercial. A neurologicial disorder of the brain, hereditory and my wife is adopdted so has no history of her parents or history. The otherside is my wife , she is anti social has a lot of fear, and doesnt like to socialize which is sad, and i am beginning to see she might has some of this condition her self. I talk too much and like people and am much more social beast. I spend very little time away from my family, even my work , i am downstairs or in the next room which is our store. This week coming up my daughter is taking on a huge challenge, she enrolled in a program called med quest, her favourite shows are medical such as house or grays, or csi. She had a chance to inroll in a program where students 15 and up to 18 can shadow follow a doctor or dentist and see what a career in the medical would be like. We did not tell them she had asbergers, the specialist advised us only if there is a problem to do that. The might labell and put her aside if we do, she is starting to worry and get scared she might be in over her head. She is in for a experience anyway you look at it. I just hope that it doesnt stress me out. 59LARKfftopic: fftopic:

 

[Diamondback]

As an Asperger myself, let me pitch in a couple pennies. Personally, I don't like to think of it as "disabled" so much as "differently-abled", because while AS does take away in some areas it can also give spectacularly in others--look at Bill Gates for a classic Asperger success-story, and also Thomas Jefferson. I prefer to think of it as "a different type of mind, built for a different kind of performance than 'Standard Equipment'..." more like "Specialists" than the "General Purpose" capabilities of everyone else.

I'm not a victim, and I'm not suffering--I acknowledge that I have certain weaknesses (like the fact that I can't read people at all outside of instinctive "threat-warning receivers" and "BS alarms", which is why I've always asked folks here, should you have some ossue with me, to call it to my attention quickly and directly so that I can try to resolve it before it escalates to Admin action required--it's unreasonable to expect someone to address a problem they don't know exists, wouldn't you all agree?), but when I can bring my strengths to play it's "Lock and Load, Rock and ROLL!" time... (If you really want an example, an old post on the Twentieth Century Limited here springs to mind as a quick example.)

And to those who are occasionally inclined to wallow in self-pity, working with Special Olympics is a really good attitude-adjuster, seeing folks who have genuine problems in life and face them with a smile kinda gives you a "what've YOU got to gripe about?" sort of attitude-check.

LJ, keep telling your sister to hang in there--sometimes, things do "tone down" over time as we get used to the world around us. My experience, along with the observation of those who've worked with me, is that while we frequently need a lot of space and time to ourselves, we also at times need a lot of support from others... even if we can be rather awkward abut asking for it.

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