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<blockquote data-quote="profchaos71" data-source="post: 258531" data-attributes="member: 7100"><p>I appreciate all of your comments and they are helping. Just curious,is it common for aspies with ADD to sleep so much.Lay around and not want to do much of anything? Also i really have yet to see that one area of skill or expertise that he focuses on like computers or something that gives me hope that even if he isnt a social dynamo or a football player he has a future in some line of work that will pay the bills. When i ask him what he wants to do for a living he answers video game tester,or movie producer.This worries me because he isnt even on the slow track to acheive either of these.Someone here said that at his age the aspergers becomes way more apparent due to his peers progression into young adulthood.I'm probably thinking about this all wrong but in my mind the sooner we start preparing him for what in all likelyhood will be a life far less cool and lucrative than producing movies or sitting around getting paid to play games the better.Now yes i know that having this doesnt mean he could never do such things and aspies do go on to be very successful people but i have done research and thats the exception. Most never marry or get divorced,have trouble holding jobs and keeping friends.I know i sound like a jerk but hey,18 isnt far off and college at his rate isnt a likely thing. I suppose i'm thinking way too far ahead but i cant help it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="profchaos71, post: 258531, member: 7100"] I appreciate all of your comments and they are helping. Just curious,is it common for aspies with ADD to sleep so much.Lay around and not want to do much of anything? Also i really have yet to see that one area of skill or expertise that he focuses on like computers or something that gives me hope that even if he isnt a social dynamo or a football player he has a future in some line of work that will pay the bills. When i ask him what he wants to do for a living he answers video game tester,or movie producer.This worries me because he isnt even on the slow track to acheive either of these.Someone here said that at his age the aspergers becomes way more apparent due to his peers progression into young adulthood.I'm probably thinking about this all wrong but in my mind the sooner we start preparing him for what in all likelyhood will be a life far less cool and lucrative than producing movies or sitting around getting paid to play games the better.Now yes i know that having this doesnt mean he could never do such things and aspies do go on to be very successful people but i have done research and thats the exception. Most never marry or get divorced,have trouble holding jobs and keeping friends.I know i sound like a jerk but hey,18 isnt far off and college at his rate isnt a likely thing. I suppose i'm thinking way too far ahead but i cant help it. [/QUOTE]
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