I love how my girlfriend E is working out the realities of living and parenting her son with an extreme Asperger personality. Here is an excerpt from her post yesterday.
Elituq-She is Learning: "Wolf is hard to like. Socially strangled by his Asperger Syndrome, he is inappropriate, rude, and sometimes downright frightening in his behavior towards others. He is difficult to communicate with because all he wants to talk about are subjects of interest in Wolf's World, something most people tolerate upon first meeting him but after a while slowly retreat from. It's embarrassing and complicated to explain, and some days I get tired of trying it.
Listening to Wolf hem and haw and dodge and weave his way around any form of family therapy this morning, I was struck by a terrible thought: 'I don't like you right now..........'" Read the rest here.
2 comments:
Hi Dorothy,
I read your blog regularly.
I just found a resource and would like to pass it along...OASIS - Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support center... seems like a great resource. Check it out at:
www.aspergersyndrome.org.
I want to say that I am married to an aspie and yes it has its challenges. When he does not communicate what's going on in his head...as aspies often do not; I started to express my feelings through writing on stickeys, texting, email, notes, and long love letters. I found out it was a good strategy. It works!
Also the book by Temple Grandin "Thinking In Pictures: My Life with Autism"...
very interesting.
Anonymous
T-minus 12 hours and counting!! Praying for you, Dee, for closing and for all the myriads of details tomorrow means! May you find closure to this bizarre process and have a good first day in your new home!
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