Our Life with Asperger's: Check out my articles on Examiner.com

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Check out my articles on Examiner.com

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know I have been offered a job as the Asperger's and Parenting Examiner for a local online news website. I've added a sidebar that lists the latest articles I've written. I will continue to maintain this blog to share our personal experiences and ideas about Asperger's, but if you're interested in more of the how to, basic info, or possible experiences with Asperger's, then check me out at the Salt Lake City Examiner.com under Family and Parenting. You can see my page here.

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The Beginning

When does it start? Do you notice if you've never known anything different? Our first child was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 7. But how did we get to that point? What were the signs and what did we miss?

Or, what happens when you go to figure out what is wrong with your child and find out along the way that you married a person showing all these traits, and HE is the one with Asperger's? What is it like to get a diagnosis of autism after marriage?

This blog is to be a help to other parents who might have the worry something is "different" with their child, or maybe to those whose kids have already been diagnosed.

This is also a blog to those out there who might be experiencing life with an Aspie spouse.

This is a story of our adventures discovering and learning about Asperger's and the long years trying to figure it out. This is also to be our continued journal of what the future may bring.

Who Are Aspies?

These are kids with a form of autism that affects language less, yet there are difficulties with appropriate speech and communicative development. Mostly, however, these children have social interaction difficulties and impairments related to a restricted, repetitive, stereotype behavior. These kids may have very high IQ's, may do very well academically, have a superior memory for "unimportant" details, such as the birth dates of all baseball players, some historical or geographical trivia, yet they lack the skills to care for themselves and live independently. These individuals may talk repetitively about a certain topic without understanding that it may be boring to others. The "amount" of memory of these individuals is incredible and one may expect different degrees of impairments with Asperger's syndrome. This may involve more or less memory and more or less social communicative impairment with regards to being able to live independently. As long as a child or individual seems "different" or "odd" and has a thought process that doesn't fit the way everyone else thinks, yet shows some of the required autistic characteristics, Asperger's syndrome should be considered. Many people with this condition remain undiagnosed because of their ability to compensate with their memory or excellent academic abilities, yet they are considered by others to be "socially inept," "weird," "nerds," "bizarre," "eccentric," etc.

Our Life with Asperger's

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Check out my articles on Examiner.com

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