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| Tue, 10-03-2006 - 4:22pm |
..This is your chance to come out of the shadows.
Let's do an official roll call.
Name
Location
Some information about the child/ children who bring(s) you here.
and for bonus points:
What is your favorite guilty pleasure: be it a sneaky chocolate bar at midnight, or watching "Desperate Housewives"

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Wendy
Howard county, Md
DD - Hannah - 3yrs 7 month - currently with a PDD-NOS diagnosis, although because she is so young we haven't had her tested outside the school system. she is a hoot, actually. her main issues are speech and language delay, although her expressive is more delayed than her receptive. Let's see at around 18 mos, I felt she was talking enough, and only occasionally responded to her name, usually if Dh called her. Talked to the ped who gave me a host of reasons why I shouldn't worry etc... I did some digging on-line, and then promptly called Early intervention. we had a WONDERFUL EIS who came and worked with DD 3 days a week for about 6 months. At age 2 yr, 6 months we put Dd in her current preschool class and she is now in her second year their. she gets all her services at school and is doing pretty well. We have a new program in our county, its an intensive ABa based Verbal program, and she was slated to move to this program, but then after spring break she had a small language explosion of sorts, and tested so high that they held her spot, but she ended up back in her current classroom because they feared she'd test out of the new program in about a month. she is to be evaluated again in a week or so to confirm her placement. She has some mild sensory issues, so she is getting OT at school at well. mostly she is a great kid. i try to not be in denial, but there are certainly days when I question whether PDD is right, whether she just has significant Language delays and so her social delays stem from there, or... ah well it doesn't matter and I don't know. i don't dwell on it much. she is now potty training, and playing some with the other kids from school and overall seems about a year behind, but progressing nicely. even a bit of a smart aleck. she responds quite well to visual cues, PECS has proven extremely helpful, and is picking up verbal commentary and using it appropriately. Eg..I was trying to get her to repeat something, she looked me straight in the eye and said "YOU say IT!", grabbed her juice and took off!
DS is almost 5 - next week and NT. He is an absolute chatterbox. I am not completely convinced he doesn't have some auditory processing issues. I also am sure he has some mild sensory issues as he is very sensitive to yells, or loud noises like the vacuum and garbage disposal. so we've ordered earrobics but haven't started with them yet as things have been alittle crazy around here...
Guilty Pleasures.... ah.. as one whose dream job would have been a Fashion editor, my guilty pleasures are purses and shoes..oh, and Maggie moo's sweet cream ice cream with pecans and choc chips mixed in, and Style and HGTV networks and traveling! DS' first passport expires this fall and he has enough frequent flyer miles for a free trip on Delta, and we don't fly them exclusively!
LOCATION: Maryland
INFO ABOUT CHILD(REN) WHO BRING ME HERE:
12yo dd & 8yo ds, both mild AS. Both perform above grade academically but struggle with completing school assignments (dd wanted to attend high-performing, fast-track middle school with minimum of 2 hours homework a night; she was mad that I refused until one particularly bad homework night when she realized that if it takes her 1-3 hours to do 20-30 minutes of homework how much harder the other school would have been for her). Our biggest struggles are "stuck thinking" and tantrum/rages, though they have plenty of other issues as well that we've adjusted to better (coordination problems, etc).
Also have 10yo ds and 3yo dd, both NT tho' I suspect ADHD for one or both. 3yo has plenty of trantrums, too, but right now we're hoping it's just her age or allergies -- something she can more easily outgrow. Both have demonstrated some measure of SID, but are outgrowing some of those problems (still have to cut tags out of clothes, tho').
Also have UnDx dh.
GUILTY PLEASURE:
Part guilty pleasure, part bad habit, is food. Any kind. Waaaaay too much of it. I think it started as an escape mechanism, but I really do enjoy the flavor of most foods, especially after cooking/serving bland or boring meals to my family who don't enjoy as much variety or flavor.
Hi, neighbor! I'm in AA county (western). It looks like we posted a minute a part and probably only live about a few minutes apart, too! My 10yo ds started off like your dd, very delayed language skills and SID. He spoke his first words around 9-10 months but then quit speaking. We even thought he might have a hearing loss because once he started speaking again, he'd misprounounce the same words he used to say clearly. He was also less social, but I think it was for reasons similar to those you identified -- it was hard to communicate with other kids. He was a bit of a momma's boy, and didn't like to drift far. He received EIS for language skills and has outgrown most of those issues now. He is extremely social now, and you'd never guess he ever had any problems socially, verbally, SID, etc. I hope your dd experiences the same progress as my ds and doesn't have to be plagued long-term with AS challenges.
Best wishes!
Hi I am Susan mom to Sam and Connor.
Good title. I am Anandhi from N.California. My son Sravan is 9 yrs old and was finally diagnosed (probably one of the few moms who felt relieved) as Asperger. He is doing much better, but seems to have a lot of anxiety issues. Thanks to Evelyn, I have ordered a lot of books that will help him deal with his Asperger in a +ve way. Time will tell.
- Anandhi
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I live in Cincinnati and my guilty pleasure...hmmmm.....reece cups or Graeters Ice Cream (peanut butter chip!)
Hi! This is a *busy* board! I've just been lurking a bit and I had no idea there would be so much response to my question... thanks all!
Name: Kristy
Location: Arkansas
Connor (9yob) is my 'possible' ASD child. I sometimes feel like I'm overreacting and 'crashing the party' when I come places like this... but most of the time I think there is at least *something* there that should be considered as I look at my son (and me!).
My first introduction to the idea was another ASD mommy asked me at the library "Your son has Asperger's too, right?" I hadn't really heard many details about it at that point... so I had no idea what to say. We got talking and I got to researching. I've decided that both of us have Asperger's to some degree but I've not made any steps to diagnose it offically.
Connor has always talked nonstop about his interests (which tend to rotate around the science and nature fields... dinosaurs, robots, sea creatures, etc) and as a friend said "It's 'sooo cute' to strangers at 4yro, but now they look at you like 'doesn't he know when to stop?'".
He doesn't normally flap, but we *both* run, jump, and hit walls when we are excited. (Oh how my parents *hated* that!) I've seen more 'classic' flapping once or twice with him.
He will repeat favorite movie lines ad nauseum (caught myself on that one too!)... and retell you the entire program he just watched even if you were watching it with him as well.
Those aren't his/my only 'symptoms'... but it's enough to give you an idea of the 'level' of his/our Aspieness.
He's the oldest of three... and we actually just learned it will be four next summer. The others are really too young (2.5yog and 13mob) for me to have many concerns about yet... since we do seem to have the 'milder' ASDs here. They are both 'on cue' with most major milestones, but I occationally see a 'hmmmm' in their behavior. I think at this point it's just wait and see for them... and if we aren't diagnosing it may not matter anyway!
As it's been so far we've just met them all where they are... but I do wonder if a 'name' would make it make more sense to family. I know my mom has always worried about how 'weird' I was... I wonder if telling her what I know now would make her feel better or *worse* because she was never in a position to label me properly and actually provide some help to me.
Aaaanyway.... My guilty pleasures? Too many to count. I'm a Sci-Fi/crime drama junkie as well as a food junkie. My 'obession' is the one guilty pleasure I actually find myself spending enough money on to occationally feel guilty about... I'm a Tomorrow People fan. Don't know it? Don't worry... it's a 30+yr old British Sci-Fi kids show that few have heard of. And believe me... that's *all* you want me to say... and I *know* you understand why! (Dern Aspieness. :))
Kristy
Jane
Northern Ill. (90 min. from Chicago)
Ds Noah (9) As brings me here. Got dx in 1/06 and have been online and at the library reading ever since. ALos on this board daily it is a true blessing. DS is gifted and very high functioning so he is a puzzle to most at the ps. For many reasons (besides the AS) we decided to homeschool this year. A classroom full of 25 gifted kids is not the best place for him to learn. He is a self motivated learner so I am lucky in that he loves to learn. Just for "fun" he wanted to memorize the first couple lines of the periodic table yesterday. He also picks a letter of the alphabet and starts reading the World Book. He's a genius but still puts on his shirts backwards 95% of the time! He goes to a therapy group with 4 other AS boys (who are all older -but he was too high functioning for his age group).
He has some anxiety issues and lately we haven't been able to take him to church with us because we had him sit with us once and heard something about "being with GOD forever" and it freaked him out - he can't fathom what "forever" looks like (who can?) He is (as his 2nd grade teacher once described him) a deep thinker, but also has a great sense of humor, a truly sensitive and sweet soul, is obsessed with gaming, hates sports and does have some friends that he can play with - not often enough but I'm grateful for any interaction he can get. He's a wonderful kid and I love him beyond words.
Guilty pleasure: Locking the door to the bedroom for awhile so the dogs, dh and ds can't get in. Also, this is almost embarassing but I have a horrible sweet tooth and when I am in the throes of really bad PMS I will go to the dollar store and buy one of those small bags of cotton candy (makes your teeth hurt just reading it doesn't it?)
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