For Children and Adults with Asperger Syndrome
People with Asperger Syndrome and autism can be helped and harmed by their different ways of thinking. While you may have special abilities, you may also need help learning how others perceive things and how others expect you to act.
Finding and focusing on your strengths can help others see past your differences to accept and support you.
Being accepted often requires being willing to modify some different behaviors and educating others to see what being on the autism spectrum really means to you -- and that your similarities can outweigh your differences.
Finding the right "manage myself and educate others" formula has helped people on the autism spectrum to lead happy, productive lives. You can find success stories on this site..
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Dating With Asperger Syndrome: Decoding Girlworld Recently, a mom contacted me and asked me about ways she could help her son with Asperger Syndrome enter the dating pool.
The Asperger Syndrome Dad Test Your son or daughter has Asperger Syndrome. How are you, as a dad, dealing with it? Here’s a test to...
Bend, Don't Break - Teaching Flexibility Want to be more flexible? Try yoga. Want your child with Asperger Syndrome to be more mentally flexible? Try mental...
Autism Awareness and Employers I saw a nice feature in the paper this morning about Autism Awareness Month. Of course, in our family, every month is Autism...
Asperger Honesty We all want our children to be honest and open. Okay, if you’re the parent of a child with Asperger Syndrome, you’ll probably...
Who Supports Our Teachers? What happened? How did we get to the point where political pundits are attacking America’s teachers?
Colorful Language - Cautious Vocabulary I like colorful language. Vivid word images can really help communicate a point. But there’s a down side, and it’s one that those of us...
Programming the Asperger Brain We’re not computers. But comparing our brains to computers can help us understand and deal with some Asperger Syndrome behaviors. In elementary...
How to Complain When’s the last time you had a legitimate complaint and didn’t get satisfaction? Maybe you need to try “strategic complaining.” You don’t even...
Asperger Syndrome: Living the Dream It was the dead of winter in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. In the gathering darkness, Julie and I got off the snow-plowed highway and walked...
Asperger Syndrome: Meeting the World Halfway I’m convinced that, without knowing it, many of us are routinely interacting with people who have some form of Asperger Syndrome. We may think it’s...
Asperger Awareness and “Aha!” Moments Autism Awareness Month is an opportunity for people with Asperger Syndrome. What can awareness of Asperger Syndrome do? It helped a mother I...
Inside The Asperger Brain How does your brain work? If you’re like most of us, you haven’t got a clue. Brain scientists have a clue, but that’s about all they have. In the...
Asperger Syndrome Job Success Secrets So, what do you do? It’s one of the first questions one adult asks another when they meet. What do you do for a living? What’s your job?
An Asperger Syndrome Diagnosis and Reality Wow. The reaction I received to my article announcing that I’ve been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome was gratifying.
I Am Asperger Syndrome Will you think of me differently after you read the next sentence? I have Asperger Syndrome.
Knowing What We Don't Know Miscommunication. We’re all guilty of it. Believing what we’ve said is perfectly clear and then learning that a family member misunderstood.
Preparing for a Car Accident I learned the value of the motto "Be Prepared" when I was a Boy Scout. While you can't prepare for everything, you can anticipate likely events and...
Liberate The Neurotypicals! Poor neurotypicals. Sometimes they just don’t have a clue.
Checklists, Notes and Memory I’ve never been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome or Attention Deficit Disorder, as my son has. But, as my wife will attest, I certainly have some of...