Looking for moms of 7 -8yr aspie girls
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Looking for moms of 7 -8yr aspie girls
| 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

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
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
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
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.
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
Mom to Erin (19) and Haley (10yo Asp
(((((Jill and DD)))) We are here for you. I wish we lived in the same area.
Debbie and Stephanie
Stephanie,
My DD wil be 7 in may and she is not officially Aspie (she is officially "at risk").
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