Many of us would shout “Eureka!” if we found a magic key that would unlock ways to motivate our children with Asperger Syndrome or similar autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
Does your child know you believe in him, even when you’re correcting him? Without meaning to, many of us give our children with Asperger Syndrome reason to question their worth in our eyes.
Does your child with Asperger Syndrome really want to be alone?
I have Asperger Syndrome, and I enjoyed being alone when I was little, mostly when I was in my own world reading. But I also craved company and wanted to be with people.
There’s a great Gary Larson Far Side cartoon about optimists and pessimists that shows four people, each separately looking at a glass with some water in it.
I finally went through a box of papers I got from my mom a while back, before she moved into a retirement home. It was a Dan shrine. I found every issue of the high school newspaper I edited.
Years ago, I was driving our minivan west on Georgia Route 316 towards the orthodontist's office in Duluth with the kids in the back seats when I heard my son, Drew, say, “Mom, I have a gum wrapper stuck up my nose.”
