Hello, I have a 15 year old son with Asperger's whom I love a lot. Adopted him including his older brother 2 years which will be 3 next month. It was devastating finding out other couples would not adopt them all because of his Asperger's. I knew he is just like any normal kid and he is glad I am in his life as a loving mom to him. His brother has been great about it. Found out he was diagnosed with Asperger's when he was 8 years old. Plus I have 2 older daughters 23 and 25 that have been great big sisters to him. So far he has been doing well and discovering things about himself which I will always love and accept him for who he is.
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Hello, a mom of a son with Asperger's
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Welcome. I hope that those sons are doing well. I'm ASD-1 and understand that except for some executive dysfunction which hindered my academic performance, I had few deficits intellectually. What I needed as a teen and young adult was social coaching. I wish something like the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) developed at UCLA was available to me back then.
My mom six kids four of us on spectrum we did OK, raised our own families.
"The essence of modern management is to make individual strengths productive, and individual weaknesses irrelevant."
- Peter Drucker
I really wish that there was more effort devoted to introducing complimentary partners to aspies rather than trying to make us emulate NTs. We'd never have heard of Royce without Rolls, nor of Cray without Rollwagen.
- Peter Drucker
I really wish that there was more effort devoted to introducing complimentary partners to aspies rather than trying to make us emulate NTs. We'd never have heard of Royce without Rolls, nor of Cray without Rollwagen.
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