Aspergers/ASD support thread

seven-day-weekend

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And look: International Aspergers Day!! Next month.

We should all get together and stay in for that [/quote]


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We grounded our son once for something heinous. He was quite unfazed as he never went anywhere anyway! And the twice he got a detention at school, he quite happily sat and read his book.

A terrible punishment for him would be to be given £50 and told he MUST go to a nightclub and he MUST stay there til 5 in the morning and he MUST spend all of his £50 in getting blotto!

When is Internation Aspergers Day?

PasturesNew

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

When is Internation Aspergers Day?

18 February, Asperger's Birthday.

PasturesNew

Asperger suicide/famous people/some good info:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2134839.ece

Independent Newspaper, 8 January 2007

PasturesNew

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

A terrible punishment for him would be to be given £50 and told he MUST go to a nightclub and he MUST stay there til 5 in the morning and he MUST spend all of his £50 in getting blotto!

That would be for me too.

Also, having to go shopping to buy clothes for myself. God I hate any form of shopping. I have to be the only person in an aisle/area and I have to stand and really think about each item. By which time I feel I might be perceived as a potential shoplifter and I leave, don't go in another shop, slip up a side alleyway, into my car and head away from civilisation. Possibly back to my own place where I can sit alone uninterrupted again.

When I do find something, I do tend to buy 2-3 of it. I pretty much wear the same clothes/same style of clothes all the time. Plain stuff. I am not bothered what I look like. I've no idea what suits me and it's so hard to shop anyway.

PasturesNew

As for isolation, I haven't had a conversation with another human being since last year now.

At a guess, I will probably speak to somebody in about another 2 weeks' time.

MyUserNamesTaken

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't know it was known about since the 1950s. I thought it was little-known until the late 80s.


I remember in my final year being able to miss PE and go sit in a room with some woman and 3 others for group chats. Which were a farce. Nobody said much.


I had this, but after 2 teachers attacked me behind the dining hall and I turned on them and fought them off.


I never did anything like that.


They tried to get my parents to sign one of these after the 2 teachers started on me. It was withdrawn when my mum said my version of events and it was checked.


The school wouldn't let me stay to 6th form - and, quite frankly, I wanted out. I went to secretarial college for 2 years instead.

But as I said, I thought it wasn't well-known about until the late 80s.

I just looked. There was a paper written in 1981. One paper doesn't mean it was well-known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger

And look: International Aspergers Day!! Next month.

We should all get together and stay in for that

Bit of advice; never rely on wikipedia as a reference source.


http://www.mugsy.org/wing2.htm

http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1049&a=3337


Hans Asperger first wrote a paper on "Autistic Psychopathy" (later to become known as Asperger's syndrome) way back in 1944.

kylieM_2

Its funny you lot talking about isolation and the distaste of shopping

Sam loves nothing more than going to tesco's or MacDonalds and has a fit if we pass either.

He is a pain i the bum to take to a shop, he loves Video's and playstation games. When I last took him to tesco's I clearly said to him "1 game Sam" he then went on to pick them up one by one counting 1,2,3,4 and so on till he had about 15 games in his arms, so I repeated "1 game" he then throw them in the air and had a fit on the floor

defiantly extrovert

MyUserNamesTaken

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am an introvert one. I don't like to bother people, I'm all right over her. No, don't mind me. I never ask for anything, never get my rights. Daren't/wouldn't know how. And whenever I HAVE tried to ask questions, if I am stuck or don't understand, I find nobody can see/understand that I am asking for help. So it's back to staying quiet in the corner for me.

You should take a look at a couple of fora:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/forums.php

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php

They are for Aspies and the such like. You don't have to try to fit in, as no-one is expecting you to.

PasturesNew wrote:

...As for remembering conversations, I can't. I've always said I could never be a lawyer because I couldn't tie up the pieces of information right then to come back with the reason they were lying. Instead, the pieces would fit together the next day when I'd be able to construct the perfect 'close' to the case in my head! But never on the spot.

I can't argue or debate because I simply can't receive the incoming information and process it quickly enough to seem like a reasonable contestant.

I've got what my partner calls a super-fast central processing unit with as massive HDD. I'm an Intel Dual-Core processor with a few gigs of RAM, baby!! I don't have a semantic pragmatic disorder (which is what you are talking about - not all Aspies have that issue). I read Law at Uni. Law is an absolute doddle for me (it's a "rules" thing). You need to differentiate here, though. I can remember conversations (and texts which interest me) verbatim. Remembering doesn't necessarily mean the same as understanding. I understand on a logical level. Understanding on an emotional level takes a lot more time and effort.

MyUserNamesTaken

kylieM wrote: »

Its funny you lot talking about isolation and the distaste of shopping

Sam loves nothing more than going to tesco's or MacDonalds and has a fit if we pass either.

He is a pain i the bum to take to a shop, he loves Video's and playstation games. When I last took him to tesco's I clearly said to him "1 game Sam" he then went on to pick them up one by one counting 1,2,3,4 and so on till he had about 15 games in his arms, so I repeated "1 game" he then throw them in the air and had a fit on the floor

defiantly extrovert

The extroverts are easy to spot...they are the loud ones. The introverts are more likely to hide under the table, or in a corner hoping not to be noticed. The introverts are less likely to be picked up as an issue, as they can seem so good in school, etc. Doesn't seem to matter that they aren't playing with the other kids and don't show any interest in what anyone else is doing, and that they don't appear to need or want to interact. They are easier to miss than the extroverts, who are in-your-face loud and boisterous. (Talking Aspies, here...not Kanner autists...it becomes more complicated with Kanner autists).


Strangely enough, I wasn't loud as a baby. In fact, I was silent. I never cried, even when hungry, wet, etc. According to my mum, I just lie there staring. She said I used to freak people out because it was like I was staring straight through people. I didn't talk until I was 4. It wasn't because I couldn't. I just had nothing to say. When I first spoke, I came out with an entire sentence (shocking my dad in the process). Apparently, I never shut up after that day...

kylieM_2

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

The extroverts are easy to spot...they are the loud ones. The introverts are more likely to hide under the table, or in a corner hoping not to be noticed. Strangely enough, I wasn't loud as a baby. In fact, I was silent. I never cried, even when hungry, wet, etc. According to my mum, I just lie there staring. She said I used to freak people out because it was like I was staring straight through people. I didn't talk until I was 4. It wasn't because I couldn't. I just had nothing to say. When I first spoke, I came out with an entire sentence (shocking my dad in the process). Apparently, I never shut up after that day...

I am glad you came out of your shell (even if you do jabber on ) don't worry so do I.

Sam is 12 he doesn't speak and when he does, he is hard to understand. Most of time it is repeating adverts over and over again.