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Asperger's Syndrome



Oh joy, another condition to cope with!
Sometimes when your children / pupils are constantly being 'difficult' maybe there's a reason beyond them being plain awkward and hard work.

You know the craziest thing, I reckon I have it and never even realised until one of the specialists investigating my son asked if we'd ever heard of it because he believes Ryan has it. Certainly explains a lot of my 'odd' behaviour in the past. Louise, my wife, blamed my 'defective genes' again, but figures indicate the cause can be a traumatic birth, something we apparently bear in common. I guess this is going to end up being yet another big section of the web site!


Really I should put in loads of entries and annecdotes here about coping with it, and or with children diagnosed with it, but that's for another day or week when I remember. Suffice to say it's ruddy hard work. Louise copes a lot better than me, her favourite quote being, Haven't you read the same books as me….

I am far, far less tolerant than I used to be, but I guess that is true of all parents, eh. As I say, it is quite possible I have (a form of) it also, but my IQ is quite literally twice my son's (or was until I got ill at any rate) and I simply can't relate. To be honest it's hard to relate in any case. As one friend once said, If you were any more laid back they would bury you.
*Mutter*
Now they have me on medications to keep me docile. Even the kids know to ask if I've 'had my pills' if I proverbially bite their heads off around mid-morning.

Beyond a few fixations and learning difficulties Ryan has some rather rigid views and interpretations… But you said…. Most of them funnily enough centre, or orbit around what HE wants. Hmmm. Mind you, I have trouble comprehending when he doesn't understand or argues a point, though in my own largely black and white view of the world I struggle with that with most folk.




Books



I'm currently reading/have recently read :

Alien in the Playground by Clare Sainsbury

Pretending to be Normal. Living with Asperger's Syndrome by Liane Holliday Willey

(I'll list the rest later)




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