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Post by em on Jul 21, 2012 4:02:27 GMT -5
All sorts of wonderful occupations listed here!! Puppetering interests me so I must check out that you tube link. I also love theatre and magicians, and rapid response teams, and belly dancers and old English pubs, and those who like to ramble! Really happy to hear your son doing much better Angle. I am the mother of 4 children (18,16,12 & 7) the eldest of whom is very severely developmentally delayed and given the autistic lable and whilst I love him to bits his appearance in my 22nd year was utterly life changing . But life changed again 3 years ago when he went sprightly boarding term time. It those three years I have found I had pockets of time to read, draw and swim once more! I also did some college law courses which were tough but empowering. I wanted to be armed to fight for my eldest son's adult placements. Now life changes again as my son is 18 and after long summer hols he goes to a 46 week term of boarding full time - although I'll still bring him home every other week term, but will have more flexibility. Sometimes it has been very hard. One of the hardest things has been to have been an academic person who had always had lots of success in their life to being totally trapped in a demanding caring/ domestic situation where I was too tired to even think let alone read, create or appreciate.... I began to see why some cultures don't educate girls...it's almost cruel. This coming year I am going to do some work at his school in the residential side of things, which I look forward to. I do love being a mum too though, all four of mine are the best kids ever, and whilst I feel my life's events have changed me I am glad to be this me.
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Post by em on Jul 21, 2012 4:05:45 GMT -5
Don't know where 'sprightly' came from!!!!! Should have read when he began a 40 week term boarding fortnightly...
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Post by yeapb on Jul 21, 2012 20:45:58 GMT -5
em - you are yet another amazing mother of a special needs child and I just have to admire you. I've had my own challenges with my 16 year being dyspraxic - he has learned how to function in society and his failures are being used as assets now! His twin sister left home a year ago and we ar finally learning how to converse with each other without arguing. My 12 year old has been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and I have spent a trying year introducing her to social niceties, social behaviour, body language etc. the fact that she is highly intelligent makes it harder cos she notices the lack of good friends. You will find that there are quite a few of us with disabled children.....
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Post by em on Jul 22, 2012 3:27:23 GMT -5
Thank you yeapb. I think in the long run high functioning autistic spectrum is very hard. My eldest son has been given the table of utis but it is such a huge umbrella term and it days gone past he would have been just called developmentally delayed. He just never learned basic life skills like toileting or talking (or signing or pecs). He is a lovely mellow young man though and whilst I face the huge challenge of finding - and fighting for funding - a post 21 placement for him... as long as that placement is good he will continue to be happy. He is utterly reliant on others for all his needs but he is himself to the core and there is no conflict within him. On this journey though I have gathered friends with children with disabilities mostly with much less all encompassing disabilities - who seemed to have so much less on their plates than me- but am now very aware that adult life for many of them really is where the biggest challenges lie. I have a close friendship and frequent contact with a friend's now 21 year old daughter and I know exactly what you mean about highly intelligent and so seeing clearly how you are failing socially - your comment really rang a bell in my head. She is by far the most able of all the autistic spectrum children I have watched growing up, so able infact that she wasn't helped with what was talked of as quirks by her parents. It sounds to me as if you are doing all the right things - whereas my friend was all to willing to lap up the - 'it'll all be fine' garbage produced by the money saving bulldozer of our special needs departments. It is very tough being very bright and yet not so able in subtle social ways. I have high hopes for my young friend ,she is soaring through a degree at the moment, perhaps if she stays in academia she'll be ok. Other friend's children are not faring so well in adult life with their almost invisible disabilities. It's a tough world out there . I am very grateful to be at this juncture with my eldest son - where he is very happy as long as he is in the right care environment. I'm thinking it's like the priesthood... hard in, easy out !
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Post by em on Jul 22, 2012 3:30:29 GMT -5
typo - table of utis - lable of autism - sorry
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Post by yeapb on Jul 22, 2012 8:55:41 GMT -5
Thanks em. We parents of special children have such a special bond.....
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Post by Big Daddy O'Reilly on Jul 22, 2012 14:32:36 GMT -5
Thanks em, any feedback you have I'd greatly appreciate.
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Post by klinger on Oct 5, 2012 19:31:00 GMT -5
Well, after spending over 10 years as a news vidiographer for my local NBC affiliate, I got sick of putting my life on the line for penny past min wage, and usesd the "U" word (union). Long stoy short, I'm back in school (Ohio University Zanesville) with an intrest in the envernmental sciences.
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Post by Kirsten on Oct 5, 2012 20:48:54 GMT -5
I Have Asperger Autism Is A Mild Form Of Autism But I'm A Very Nice And Kind Person To Like And I'm Very Smart!
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Post by beccaleo1972 on Oct 6, 2012 17:57:25 GMT -5
Right now im a student a the local community college. Im studying Business Technology to help me gain employment and down the line i want to become a Veterinary Tech.
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