MSE Parents Club Part 12

weezl74

3onitsway wrote: »

Weezl Thank you.

I think out of all of on here, you are the most unlikely to cause offence to anyone! :A

I'm always questioning in my mind whether J being autistic affected the way he was born, or did the way he was born make him autistic?!?

Does research into autism flit between 'cause' and 'fault' because, in reality, nobody knows (yet)? Also there are so many degrees of autism it's totally baffling?

Things I read/hear about autism don't upset me as a Mum - maybe I have a very thick skin. I think that the researchers are as confused as me, but one day, someone will make a breakthrough and find a definate cause.

My Nana (the one who lacks tact) must have heard about the 'refrigerator environment' as she suggested I hadn't interacted with J enough when he was a baby, and i'd gone back to work full time when he was too young.

But I have another two perfectly 'normal' children who i've brought up exactly the same. ***Confused smiley***


Back to happy things;

My baby daughter is very proud of walking now, and is walking too and from the bathroom, bringing me things from the under-sink cupboard.

grrrrr at nana's comment 3!

and I completely agree that if it was the environment a mum provides then all the children in each family would be on the autistic spectrum which isn't true

I know enough about you to know you are a very warm and relational mummy :A

My friends little boy is autistic (IQ 64) and his was the most straightforward vaginal birth of all her 3 with only an 8 minute pushing stage.

The difficulty with looking at birth stories and then at the children, is that it misses the families where the data is the other way round IYSWIM?

weezl74

*can weezl's love for marti persuade her to watch loose women in all it's vilenesss?*

jillie1974

weezl74 wrote: »

yeeeeeees, and I think our joint part of our usernames may explain why it's probably only you and me who are quite so excited by that Jillie;)

he's still gorgeous :D

a-ha were my fave... actually still are and i went to see them in manc a few years ago and it was lie i was 14 all over again :j:rotfl:

ladybirdintheuk

Fizio that is great news

and I'm loving the pictures.

I'm just off to do a quick wardrobe change, and head off to my interview, but I first of all have to tell you the very important news - Izzy has grown out of her first shoes ... but she has some new ones Proper big girls black patent leather mary-jane type shoes, with a butterfly on the toes. She looks everso grown up in them. I'm glad she is big enough to wear black shoes too - nothing will clash with them! She hates having her feet measured, so the sales assistant just went up from the size she is now, and we tried a few pairs till we worked out what she needed. For someone who loves shoes as much as Izzy, it is a bit inconvenient for her to be scared of the sales assistants, but never mind, I'm sure it will pass! (it's funny though, as she is so friendly with most strangers - it is only the shoe shop and the doctors that she isn't... I need that shrugging icon back.)

Anyway, must go get changed and out the door. Wish me luck!

jillie1974

weezl74 wrote: »

*can weezl's love for marti persuade her to watch loose women in all it's vilenesss?*

he's not on now

pinknico

Really pleased for you Fitzio about your job. Sounds exciting.

Glamazon

weezl74 wrote: »

*can weezl's love for marti persuade her to watch loose women in all it's vilenesss?*

Nothing can make you want to watch THAT!!!!

Not even Marty *puke* Pello!

OMFG Just had the scare of my life - J looked tired so popped him in his cot on his front. Heard him screaming - went up and he was sitting up in his cot :eek:
This child is hell bent on scaring me today!

:j Go Kian - you like all the naughty things

jillie1974

ooh sounds like a dream job fitzio

3onitsway

weezl74 wrote: »

grrrrr at nana's comment 3!

When you've had my Nana for as long as I have, you get used to her bizarre comments and views! She's 82, she believes that gives her the right to say what she thinks! :rotfl:

Fitz That sound like great news about your job. It might make going back less painful if you are going back to something new.


ETA: I'm off to take my car for its very first MOT. See you all later.

Glamazon

fitzio - that sounds fab :j
A new challenge is always good and part of the reason I'm not dreading going back to work