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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 651519" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Can I blow up some pre-conceived notions?</p><p> </p><p>I'm an Aspie - Asperger's syndrome. Me. The Mom. I'm also university educated and work in my field (Information technology). I'm married with two kids. I'm "normal". Except... not quite.</p><p> </p><p>Aspie traits run in my family, in particular. I didn't even notice my son wasn't "normal" until after he started school. I didn't really understand just how different he was until junior high grades. Now that he's out of school... it's really obvious. He does not have a formal diagnosis, but he does have recognized traits.</p><p> </p><p>The most obvious traits that seem to occur with or without a diagnosis include:</p><p>- problems with social skills - the gap gets wider as they get older</p><p>- problems with transitions</p><p>- the ability to hyper-focus on a task, IF it is in "their area of specialty"</p><p>- the tendency to have a key area of interest (their specialty) - this may change over time, but will not "change daily"</p><p>- there may be sensory challenges</p><p>- there may be coordination challenges (fine motor skills or gross motor skills or both)</p><p> </p><p>Also be on the look-out for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory processing disorder. There are multiple different APDs, and while the classic symptoms of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) tend to get caught (problems processing verbal language), other APDs get missed. Such as auditory figure ground - where the person can hear fine in a quiet setting, but cannot figure out what sounds to focus on in a noisy environment. And classrooms are NOISY. So are computer games...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 651519, member: 11791"] Can I blow up some pre-conceived notions? I'm an Aspie - Asperger's syndrome. Me. The Mom. I'm also university educated and work in my field (Information technology). I'm married with two kids. I'm "normal". Except... not quite. Aspie traits run in my family, in particular. I didn't even notice my son wasn't "normal" until after he started school. I didn't really understand just how different he was until junior high grades. Now that he's out of school... it's really obvious. He does not have a formal diagnosis, but he does have recognized traits. The most obvious traits that seem to occur with or without a diagnosis include: - problems with social skills - the gap gets wider as they get older - problems with transitions - the ability to hyper-focus on a task, IF it is in "their area of specialty" - the tendency to have a key area of interest (their specialty) - this may change over time, but will not "change daily" - there may be sensory challenges - there may be coordination challenges (fine motor skills or gross motor skills or both) Also be on the look-out for Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) - auditory processing disorder. There are multiple different APDs, and while the classic symptoms of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD) tend to get caught (problems processing verbal language), other APDs get missed. Such as auditory figure ground - where the person can hear fine in a quiet setting, but cannot figure out what sounds to focus on in a noisy environment. And classrooms are NOISY. So are computer games... [/QUOTE]
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