Our Life with Asperger's

I realize I've been telling this story of how we found out about Asperger's, but I haven't really described all the things about...

When we met with MJ's teacher at the end of the year parent/teacher conference , she had all these plans for what she was going to do n...

So, shocked and surprised MJ's teachers didn't respond as I thought they would, I went and talked to the Special Ed teacher. I told...

So, we took all this paperwork and went to MJ's school. We gave it all to the teacher, and we emailed the speech therapist and talked t...

We finally met with the team of doctors and psychologist and this is what came out: "Mild Asperger Syndrome with associated anxiety...

Do you know there is this whole "spectrum" thing when it comes to Autism? Yeah, I've always thought autism is where the kid d...

So, while they are doing all these tests and evaluations, the doctors begin asking me about my husband and certain specific things. And, in...

For the next little while MJ began taking all these tests. The Special Ed teacher at school was testing him on all his cognitive abilities ...

We met with a pediatric neurologist a little after MJ turned 7 years old. We sat there while he analyzed different things and examined MJ a...