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Aspergers/ASD support thread
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oh we get those with everything you can imagine what viewing the royal wedding was like! My DS is like having the directors commentary in the room with you. That could be a really useful skill laret in luife, i always think of something positive each day. boundless energy, racing mind, photographic memory, he will SURELY go far!Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
LOL, my son is obsessed with Lego.
He talks about Lego at every waking minute, I make the mistake of taking him to the Lego shop the other day........ we had to carry him out in the end.....!!0 -
blue_monkey wrote: »LOL, my son is obsessed with Lego.
He talks about Lego at every waking minute, I make the mistake of taking him to the Lego shop the other day........ we had to carry him out in the end.....!!
Mine still buys himself Lego at the age of 31.
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
SDW, he sold all of his Thomas stuff on eBay and it made £320, I told him he got £100 and I put the rest away. That £100 was gone within days and all he goes on about it buying more. I just keep thinking I'll give him the rest of the money to shut him up and he can get it but then I will have nothing to get him for Xmas. If he is not building it he is watching clips on youtube or playing on the Lego website.
We got him some Lego for his birthday and he has not touched any other toys since then!!
We went to parents evening and his teacher said 'has he got a thing about lego' as it is all he talks about at school. LOL. She only has to say the L word to set him off on a 20 minute chat about who has what and what goes where, ha ha.
I know lego is timeless. Someone who bought on of the Thomas sets said it was for her son in his 30's and he had loads of it set up in the attic.0 -
Did she not have any Lego to swap for it?The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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My DS is also a lego fan ... we have at LEAST 3 boxes of the stuff o.O
And he stilll wants more, doesn't really play with anything else!
Took him to Legoland 2 yrs ago and he still wants to go back for more, get lego every christmas and birthday. Have to hide his money or it would be spent in the toy aisle at Tesco's. :rotfl:0 -
LOL, I am glad it is not just me.
The thing is you cannot uby 2nd hand lego becaue some of thepieces might be missing. We have boxes of the stuff but it only really gets built into the picture in the book.
Apart from a prison. He built a prison as there was not one on the Lego website (come on Lego, get your act together!!).
He has been going on about Legoland for a while but we are off to DLP in a few weeks so I wanted to save some pennies (have to pay a house sitter for the dogs too).
His teacher did say that at least it was a healthy obsession.
He took his lego plane in to school this morning, his teacher gave me a knowing wink when I left the classroom, LOL. I feel she is in for a long day.
It does make me smile though. It might turn him into an architect.0 -
Hi there, must just share this.....
As some of you know, my son started working on the tills at Morrison's last October after having been made redundant from Matalan. He is on a 16-hour contract.
Today the manager of the Fresh Foods section has approached him and says he has been watching my son on the checkouts and wants to train him up in his department. It will be a full-time position and he will also assess him to be trained as a supervisor.:j:T:T
My son is VERY nervous and lacking in confidence about this (although he is delighted), so I told him to have confidence in the fact that they think he is worth training up, and that I and his dad have every confidence in his ability to do the job.
There is nothing definite yet, but it should start within a month to six weeks.
We are absolutely DELIGHTED!
Also we will be in the UK by the time his job starts and will be able to encourage and praise him to help his confidence.
Things are looking up for him!
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That's brilliant that they have so much confidence in him, but it might have been wiser for them not mention the possibility of the next step, until he had got comfortable with the new role. I know from experience with Flyboy12 that he doesn't cope well either long term future plans, especially if their are several levels to achieve first. I dread the the prospect of exams and carers etc, but here's hoping.
Congratulations to your son, I hope he succeeds in his career. It really will be a huge boost for him if he makes supervisor. :jThe greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
I agree that his career progression should ideally be in 'bite-size chunks', but his employers don't know about his AS so we can't really expect them to accomodate it.
He'll be OK,we will be there to support him, and also as he is older he is learning howto better deal with his difficulties.
Thanks for your good wishes.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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