MamaSpice - my DH has Aspergers traits. Ive always said that socially he is beyond unusual. He doesnt have any social understanding, I cant take him anywhere because he is embarrassing and he always says things that are not appropriate. He's good at not doing it if I ask him to but esp when its just he and I, he says things and I have to say "Dude, you cant say things like that!" and he gets all annoyed because he doesnt see why not. He has friends but they are few and far between and usually through me making friends with their spouses. Otherwise he is happy to be a loner. Funnily enough, its only been the last month or two that Dh has said to me "I think Rip is like this because Im like this, maybe I have ASD too. Would explain alot." Even my MIL has commented that if DH was a kid today he'd be diagnosed with ASD. There is also speculation about my father and brother (I def think my brother is Aspie too but he is 18 and kind of passed the diagnosis stage).

Today is the first day of our new life I guess. Rip has had a good day so far, no meltdowns but I havent really expected anything of him so we'll see what happens in a minute when I have to dress him and go to speech therapy. He's always better when we have a whatever day, he can do his thing and I dont harrass him about doing this or that. Plus he slept all night last night (yay!) so he is prob in a bit better mood.

One thing Ive wondered about it the whole stimming thing. Im not entirely sure Rip does it? If we are butting heads with him because he isnt behaving (ie running away at the shops, squealing, punching his brothers etc) he sort of goes lax and drops his body weight, closes his eyes and smiles. Its really weird. I end up having to carrying him or hold him until he suddenly just comes good again. He also tends to jump repeatedly, or flicks his fingers. Are these things classed as stimming?? He also has verbal outburts of jibberish or just loud sounds, esp if your asking him to do something like say "Pick up your lego Rip" "Put your clothes on Rip". The jibberish talk has increased alot lately, even though we know he has a good vocab even with the speech issues.