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Sat, 04-21-2007 - 5:50pm

good news about your aspie. i can't hear anymore about autistic boys who shoot/stab/hurt people.

write in about great school, sport, family or other moments pleeeeease.

thank you:)

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Sun, 04-22-2007 - 10:55pm

I will totally vouch for Cait being all smiles.

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Sun, 04-22-2007 - 11:04pm

Well Adam has the most devoted love for me like no other love I have seen or felt.
And at least once a day Adam gets me to laugh out loud with his sense of humor.

Today at the local farm we visit, the little pigs were play and grunting and Adam's contagious laugh was the best sound to a mother's ears.

My little prince

~Nora

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Sun, 04-22-2007 - 11:09pm

Normally, I'm one of the first to jump in and say something positive about my spectrum kids...but today was "change of season shopping day" and by the time it was over, I was barely talking to my NT child, let alone my two spectrum ones!

Hopefully, I'll be able to add something wonderful to this thread tomorrow, because I really have enjoyed reading all the other positive stories.

Amy

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Sun, 04-22-2007 - 11:10pm
I was reminded of this in another post I did in this thread, but Isaac has a deep desire to make people laugh.
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Mon, 04-23-2007 - 8:06am

thank you for sharing these wonderful stories! i hope everyone enjoys the positive results of the hardwork that they have put into their children.

i would love to see some of these stories on the front page of the newspaper.

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Mon, 04-23-2007 - 9:05am

Thank you for starting this thread it really cheered me up!

I wanted to share something not about my DS but about a teenage boy we met yesterday.

We are regulars at the local train museum. They have real trains that you can climb all over, a kiddie train and a real engine with caboose that you can ride. They also have a model train room and a room full of tables with Thomas stuff for the kids to play with.

Yesterday there was this cute boy, about 13. He was all dressed up like the guys who run the trains, with his engineer's hat, walkie-talkie thing. He was very serious, took our tickets. Made a couple of attempts at humor, which you could tell he had practiced carefully too. Eric loved him.

We asked one of the adult engineers about this lad and found out there is no age limit to getting a license to run trains like this. You just have to study a big 75 page manual and pass a test. This boy is the youngest person ever to accomplish that, so they let him drive the train (it goes really, really slowly maybe 5 mph, and the track is very short, and just a straight line up and back.) He only drives with adult supervision.

Anyway, we thought it was a wonderful way to take a special interest/obsession and turn it into something positive. Who knows what this boy will ultimately do! It made me think of Temple Grandin talking about the importance of nurturing our kids' special interests into something they can use to make friends and also perhaps future employment.

Katherine

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Mon, 04-23-2007 - 12:24pm

Sam has been pretty flexible lately. He's been dealing well with disappointments or changes in plans that are unexpected. He's come back from the edge of a meltdown a couple of times. He tried and like a new toothpaste. He kicked my butt in checkers last week; he's a really thoughtful guy when he's focused.

He got the highest bowling score at his fun group a couple of weeks ago. Though I didn't point this out to him; we were supposed to be counting all the kids points up to get over a certain number so it wouldn't get too competetive......I was really proud of him silently though!

He helped his little bro get his raincoat on for me...."let's go H. Here's your coat, one arm, now the other one....and let's zip it up..." I almost cried it was so sweet and cute to hear!

He did really well taking turns and listening to the fire chief last week on our tour of the firehouse and outing to the playground with the Mom's club I belong to.

His stress level is so much more managable when he's not in school!!!

Chrystee

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