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    An average kid

    Thanks, epath13. When we left our eligibility meeting, we should have been happy with the "victory" of finally getting an IEP after five years of struggle for our son and for having gotten the OHI/autism designations. However, we left shocked by the special ed director's ignorance and...
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    An average kid

    Many thanks for your replies. Asheskyler, my son, as you would expect, has very uneven abilities and skills. For instance, he can engage in delightful conversations with adults with his large vocabulary and in-depth knowledge about topics from the more adult world (when he has us there to cue...
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    An average kid

    My 12-year-old son was diagnosed in October, so I am still in the process of developing an awareness of issues around Asperger's. I knew almost nothing about Asperger's before his diagnosis. One of the things that I have become aware of is not just the stereotype about people with Asperger's...
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    A New Direction

    Beaglesfly, I totally get it. We only learned of our son's depression through counseling. We had no idea. In a million years we wouldn't have been able to spot it on our own. We are learning to spot signs of increasing anxiety or depression: he starts staying up later (in his room, but reads...
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    A New Direction

    Hi, Beaglesfly. You've gotten lots of great feedback here. My son is 12, diagnosed with Aspergers in October. He was diagnosed with ADHD at age 6, but as he got older and we saw how different he still was from other ADHD kids we knew that we were all missing something. After years of...
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    Is he lying?

    Thank you all! It's so hard to tease these things out. I'm glad to hear your own stories. We don't know any other kids or adults with aspergers. He perceives his teachers as bullies (and we believe that many of them treat him in a bullying way, not by his account because that is not reliable...
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    Is he lying?

    For years, our son has gotten in trouble at school for using foul language when he's being picked on by kids. Three times this year he's gotten in trouble for doing this with teachers too. Every time he swears up and down that he doesn't do this, and he gets really upset that we don't believe...
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    Comment by 'Profmom' in 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or is the egg really an egg??'

    Thank you, Christy. My son (12 years old) is newly diagnosed and I am new to this site. I am new to the labels and everything that goes with them, and before coming here it never dawned on me that people "self diagnosed". (It never dawned on me that he had Aspergers either, but that's another...
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    Newly diagnosed middle-schooler

    Thank you, Sarah. I am sorry it took a while for me to respond. I really appreciate your offer! How are you feeling about your diagnosis? Did you accept it right away? How do you feel about the diagnosis?
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    Suspended, again

    Thank you, Nadador and Judge. I don't know how we'd manage tuition for a private school, but if we can show that the school isn't fulfilling his needs and that he has resources that aren't been tended to we can try to get him transferred to another school at our school district's expense...
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    Suspended, again

    Thank you, Sass. This is reassuring!
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    Suspended, again

    Thanks, Judge. This is very helpful. We live in a small town, we naively thought that services that our son truly needs would be offered to us out of concern for his education. We now see this isn't the case. His resource teacher from last year and two teachers this year have pulled us aside...
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    Suspended, again

    This is our third time trying for an IEP, so we're not feeling optimistic. The first one was for his ADHD, and it was his teacher who initiated the process because she felt he needed it. The second one was for his epilepsy, and all we could get was a 504. We live in a small town with few...
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    Suspended, again

    Hi, Daniela. He started middle school this year, which has been great in some ways (e.g. he gets to move around more, has classes are on topics he likes), but has been bad in the amount of freedom that all kids have in that there are more unsupervised opportunities for trouble. It's also noisier...
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    Suspended, again

    We're now on our fifth suspension, our fifth since the school year started three months ago. This is now two out of three that were a result of physical altercations with other boys. (One other was for "smack talk" with a boy, two were for using profanity against teachers.) My 12-year-old was...
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