This 100 percent. Its so hard to get people to look past his diagnosis sometimes. Hes more than ASD thank you, hes my kid with feelings and thoughts. You need to see him like that not that freaky label you stuck on him.
The advantage we had, such as it was, was that we a) somewhat geeky (computer programmer, sf/f writer) with a less strict adherence to what "normal" means. We didn't have a diagnosis; we only had a son -- with extremely strong characteristics. The diagnosis did not arrive until part way through grade one.
We did laugh out loud when a handout for helping parents of Asperger children suggested that the educators go light on the homework because Asperger children often found homework in a home environment very stressful, and therefore so did the parents. Because it would take all weekend of sitting at a table to produce two sentences of book report.
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Date: 2010-10-15 12:26 am (UTC)The advantage we had, such as it was, was that we a) somewhat geeky (computer programmer, sf/f writer) with a less strict adherence to what "normal" means. We didn't have a diagnosis; we only had a son -- with extremely strong characteristics. The diagnosis did not arrive until part way through grade one.
We did laugh out loud when a handout for helping parents of Asperger children suggested that the educators go light on the homework because Asperger children often found homework in a home environment very stressful, and therefore so did the parents. Because it would take all weekend of sitting at a table to produce two sentences of book report.