Looking for moms of 7 -8yr aspie girls

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-22-2004
Looking for moms of 7 -8yr aspie girls
8
Sun, 02-04-2007 - 6:05pm

hi -

I've posted a few times on this board. I have a 7yr old girl aspie. I am looking to connect with other moms in the same age range because I feel very alone where I live because a lot of the aspie's in our area are boys and the only girl I know is 12. I really need a friend who is in my shoes. Thanks for letting me vent.

Jessica

Avatar for stephsmom98
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-28-2003
Mon, 02-05-2007 - 6:01pm

Hi Jessica.

You aren't alone. But I do feel alone too where I live. I know another mother in my area who also homeschools and has an Asperger's child, but it is a boy and he is 11 years old.

What is your girl like? My Stephanie is 8 years old and in third grade. She is homeschooled. She also has ADHD, Epilepsy (although the neurologist thinks she might have outgrown it, but we have to wait another year to really tell) and anxiety issues. She is overwhelmed when there is a lot going on. We are helping with socialization, but she does like people, she still doesn't know proper responses as of yet or how to talk well so people can understand her (I interrupt). She has a great sense of humor and does better is small groups or one on one.

Hope to hear more from you.

Debbie

Debbie, Mom to my "only" Stephanie
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-22-2003
Mon, 02-05-2007 - 6:32pm

Hey Jessica~

My youngest will be 7 in August. She's technically an "autie" not an "aspie", but we're dealing with a lot of the same issues. I only know a handful of other autism parents in my community, and they all have boys.

Amy

Meez 3D avatar avatars games

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-05-2007
Mon, 02-05-2007 - 11:36pm
I have a 9.5 year old Aspie girl. There really aren't other Aspie girls in my areas.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-22-2004
Tue, 02-06-2007 - 6:58pm

Wow! Our girls could be twins! My dd also suffered from partial complex seizures frontal lobe but we were fortunate to outgrow them. She can still have them if she gets "set off" by medication usually that we figure out she is allergic to in the end. I think she had 1 seizure all of last year at school.

She is very curious. Loves animals and games mostly. Likes to "act like the teacher" all the time. Her language is still bad. Her sentence structure is messed up still like she says "whose mother you are?" or "what you said?". Almost everything she says is in the form of a question. I think alot of that came from using ABA when she was younger.
Very intelligent, makes straight A's and sets the curve for reading in her grade. Its getting harder now though because before she just read. Now her comprehension is better...which means MORE QUESTIONS!!!!

She is a lefty. She also is stuck to structure. If she can't instantly find what she is looking for...meltdown. She has finally learned to transition much better than she used to be able to. Still though, a conversation with a stranger or peers is pretty painful to listen to. Most people however are happy to oblige her. LOL

Hope to talk more later.

Jessica

Avatar for stephsmom98
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-28-2003
Tue, 02-06-2007 - 11:14pm

Hi Jessica.

It is interesting to hear about your daughter and to see how they are alike. Thanks for telling me about her.

It is amazing to see them blossom. It is also interesting that she gets straight A's but has trouble with sentence structure, but she sounds very intelligent.

The problem with my daughter is that she only says half of what she really wants to say and the other half is in her mind so most people are like "ha, what? I don't understand what you are trying to say." We have to work on that.

Debbie, Mom to my "only" Stephanie
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 02-07-2007 - 9:53am

I have a 9 yr daughter that's an aspie. We don't know anyone at all around here that has Aspergers and its been kind of frustrating for us. Haley has been feeling so different from everyone else lately and wants to meet other kids with Aspergers so badly. :(

- Jill



Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

Mom to Erin (19) and Haley (10yo Asp
Avatar for stephsmom98
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-28-2003
Wed, 02-07-2007 - 3:50pm

(((((Jill and DD)))) We are here for you. I wish we lived in the same area.

Debbie and Stephanie

Debbie, Mom to my "only" Stephanie
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-25-2003
Wed, 02-07-2007 - 5:19pm

Stephanie,


My DD wil be 7 in may and she is not officially Aspie (she is officially "at risk").

-Paula

visit my blog at www.onesickmother.com