Mel, like Maz said, over the last month I have had to totally grieve my "normal" Matilda.... I've howled and sobbed and hid under the covers for a day. But I think now I look forward to learning about the world through her eyes. How she see's it.
Off that topic for a sec... do any of you notice that when you get together with other ASD kids that the kids tend to "get" each other? So even when they don't play well socially with "normal" kids, they do okay with other super kids? Matilda has had 3 plays with week with other kids on the spectrum, and they were all wonderful. 3 days at Montessori were horrible socially, and then she played with one boy with high functioning Autism and they got on like a house on fire. We didn't understand what they were doing, but they loved it. Today we went to a house with a boy with Autism and his brother had Aspergers and they all did so well together. Chasing and jumping on the trampoline, holding hands doing ring-a-rosie... stuff they wouldn't normally do with "NT or normal" kids.
I get together with 3 other mum's and we all have boy's with autisum and the 4 of them barely talk together (bare wilhelm who dribble shiat all the time), they dont invade each others space BUT play extremely well together. they run together, and everything you said Christy. Whcih reminds me..maz has to organise a get together with them again soon.
Thank you Maz. And Christy. And Raven. I will call the hossy on Monday and see what they say. Maz, I did do a list of sorts a while ago to sort out in my head what to tell them about if we got an appointment. But when I saw it all written down it scared me. I think I might ask the lady if I can fax it to her. Let them decide whether to escalate or not. But I'll talk to her as well. She was really lovely on the phone last time.
Christy, I think that's why J gets along so well with the trouble maker at day care. I think J senses that he is "different" too, and responds to it. My friend was saying that in primary school, her autistic son was the only person who could relate to a child with ADHD. So much so that the teachers would ask him to calm the ADHD boy down when he was upset - and it worked every time. That must be so good for you to see M playing so happily with other kids. Mind you, she's always been really great playing with J too. And J with her. (I'm not reading anything into that BTW!). Actually M has played really well most of the time I've seen her. She really is a great kid.
Just posing quickly to let you guys know that there is a man with Aspergers (he is almost blind too) on Rock Wiz tonight right now.
I saw a bit of a doco on him during the week and almost forgot about the show being on tonight.
Thank you Maz. And Christy. And Raven. I will call the hossy on Monday and see what they say. Maz, I did do a list of sorts a while ago to sort out in my head what to tell them about if we got an appointment. But when I saw it all written down it scared me. I think I might ask the lady if I can fax it to her. Let them decide whether to escalate or not. But I'll talk to her as well. She was really lovely on the phone last time.
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