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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 377462" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Ivy, welcome. When you get a chance, start a thread of your own to introduce yourself and do a sig of your own.</p><p></p><p>I can relate to having a child with autism who doesn't fit the usual accepted concept. difficult child 3 makes eye contact and is affectionate. But on his terms.</p><p></p><p>His older sister does not have a diagnosis but she and we are convinced she is Asperger's, because although the doctor says she makes good eye contact, she says she has to work at it and doesn't like to make eye contact with people she doesn't know. And she knows the doctor. When we first met the doctor, his attention was mostly occupied with her brothers.</p><p></p><p>Something else to watch for (it's difficult to identify in younger children) is prosopagnosia, or face blindness. It's generally not complete face blindness in high-functioning autism, but it can be. We found our kids have difficulty recognising people out of context. For example, we were at the mall when I bumped into a friend from church who difficult child 3 has known since birth. I offered the friend a ride home and difficult child 3 was introducing himself, explaining about the family dynamics to her because he didn't recognise her. Even after I said, "This is so and so from church," he had trouble identifying her. It was only when we got back home to her house, that he realise who she was. He would have been at least ten years old, probably older, because this was after he left mainstream schooling.</p><p></p><p>There is a website with some basic tests for face blindness - again, it's not officially diagnostic but it can be interesting to get your child to do the tests. Or to do it yourself.</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 deals with the problem by focussing on a person's clothing or some other aspect of their appearance, and linking it with the person's name. She deals with customers daily (check-out chick) and has to be able to match the customer with the occasional forgotten bag of shopping. Her photographic memory helps a little; but mostly by matching the scarf or brooch the person is wearing with the groceries she checked through.</p><p>[An interesting added advantage to the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) - her cash register always balances at the end of the day, her brain keeps a running tally of what is in there, she couldn't understand why others can't do it too].</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 377462, member: 1991"] Ivy, welcome. When you get a chance, start a thread of your own to introduce yourself and do a sig of your own. I can relate to having a child with autism who doesn't fit the usual accepted concept. difficult child 3 makes eye contact and is affectionate. But on his terms. His older sister does not have a diagnosis but she and we are convinced she is Asperger's, because although the doctor says she makes good eye contact, she says she has to work at it and doesn't like to make eye contact with people she doesn't know. And she knows the doctor. When we first met the doctor, his attention was mostly occupied with her brothers. Something else to watch for (it's difficult to identify in younger children) is prosopagnosia, or face blindness. It's generally not complete face blindness in high-functioning autism, but it can be. We found our kids have difficulty recognising people out of context. For example, we were at the mall when I bumped into a friend from church who difficult child 3 has known since birth. I offered the friend a ride home and difficult child 3 was introducing himself, explaining about the family dynamics to her because he didn't recognise her. Even after I said, "This is so and so from church," he had trouble identifying her. It was only when we got back home to her house, that he realise who she was. He would have been at least ten years old, probably older, because this was after he left mainstream schooling. There is a website with some basic tests for face blindness - again, it's not officially diagnostic but it can be interesting to get your child to do the tests. Or to do it yourself. easy child 2/difficult child 2 deals with the problem by focussing on a person's clothing or some other aspect of their appearance, and linking it with the person's name. She deals with customers daily (check-out chick) and has to be able to match the customer with the occasional forgotten bag of shopping. Her photographic memory helps a little; but mostly by matching the scarf or brooch the person is wearing with the groceries she checked through. [An interesting added advantage to the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) - her cash register always balances at the end of the day, her brain keeps a running tally of what is in there, she couldn't understand why others can't do it too]. Marg [/QUOTE]
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