Sarah - we got A DS for WIlhelm for Christmas too...he's heart broken cause he's already lost a game and he keep's telling me that he needs to buy a new one. Ive made a rule that its an hours play adn then it gets put up in my room. Ive always made this rule since the boys were small and ive been consistant with it so I dont get any **** when the hour is up.

We tell Wilhelm that he's a special boy with super powers that we dont have. I told him about 2 weeks ago that he has 'Autism' and that we dont care if his brain is different to ours. He took it alright but I think it's gonna take a bit more for us to get it through to him. I like the idea of the book about it...Might have to invest in it I think. I know NIkolaus get's frustrated with him at times...but ive heard him tell his friends (proudly) his brother has Autism and is really smart....the 'normal' child seems to always suffer more then the child that is affected but it Poor Nikolaus has been through so much and it hurts cause he can remember everything that happens.

Wilhelm is heavily into movies....like who the actors are, the people who help make it and trialers. He'd rarther sit and watch the second disc about the movie making thent he actual movie. We always say he's gonna be the next Steven Speilberg lol.

The last week we have been prepping him up for Mateauz birthday...which he told us was in October until about 3 weeks ago lol. We're having a party here on saturday so hopefully he'll be alright. there are going to be heaps of pools of water for the kids to play in go his water fixation will be in fine form.

Sarah - I bought one of those egg chairs from Ikea for Wilhelms time out. Its great cause it has a pull down blind so when he's really bad he goes and sit's in it and chill's and can block the outside world. When we first got it he used it 2 -3 times a day and now he is lucky to use it once a week.

A for other children in the family on the spectrum - my niece has 2 that are on it. Funyn thing is...When Wilhelm was diagnosed my sister and both nieces laughed and told me suck ****! yes i dont talk to the loser's at all but anyway...her 3 yo daughter was diagnosed (unformally) with aspergers and now her almost one year old son is showing exactly the same signs...Karma people is all im saying! although I would never wish it on anyone but still they now live my life

Our problem with Wilhelm atm is that he plays with his penis all the time....drives me insane so I just tell him to leave his penis alone...I sound like such a broken record