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Mother of an 8 year old out of control Aspergers child!
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 434522" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>To keista: I wasn't going to respond again, but your response to her was so awesome that I had to give my big thumbs up!</p><p></p><p>As for the gaming, I don't limit my son because he is on the autism spectrum and it calms and amuses him. I do insist he participate in outside activities, even though he never wants to go (once he gets there he is fine). Kids on the autism spectrum tend to have poor imaginations making it hard for them to know how to amuse themselves on their own. They often tend to just touch everything in sight if they have nothing to do, or start stimming (such as throwing a ball up and down for hours...to me, the touching and ball throwing is even less productive than the game playing). In fact my son has connected to many "friends" while gameplaying on his PSP3. For him, that is a good thing. </p><p></p><p>Part of why, in my opinion, my son is so good natured is that we know he is Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and allow him to be w hat he is. Right now he has school and then summer school five days a week to interrupt the gameplaying. When he is ready, he will have work. So that's just my .02 and what we do...keep us updated <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>PS--I'd go easy on the violent games too. My son dislikes any killing/shooting/violent games so I'm lucky that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 434522, member: 1550"] To keista: I wasn't going to respond again, but your response to her was so awesome that I had to give my big thumbs up! As for the gaming, I don't limit my son because he is on the autism spectrum and it calms and amuses him. I do insist he participate in outside activities, even though he never wants to go (once he gets there he is fine). Kids on the autism spectrum tend to have poor imaginations making it hard for them to know how to amuse themselves on their own. They often tend to just touch everything in sight if they have nothing to do, or start stimming (such as throwing a ball up and down for hours...to me, the touching and ball throwing is even less productive than the game playing). In fact my son has connected to many "friends" while gameplaying on his PSP3. For him, that is a good thing. Part of why, in my opinion, my son is so good natured is that we know he is Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and allow him to be w hat he is. Right now he has school and then summer school five days a week to interrupt the gameplaying. When he is ready, he will have work. So that's just my .02 and what we do...keep us updated :) PS--I'd go easy on the violent games too. My son dislikes any killing/shooting/violent games so I'm lucky that way. [/QUOTE]
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