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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 319391" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>THanks, everyone.</p><p></p><p>I do believe the higher incidence these days is a higher rate of recognition and broader scope of diagnosis. I look back through family through the generations and can see people who if born these days, would almost certainly get an autism diagnosis of some sort, but who were merely considered eccentric. husband's father was literally born and raised on a sheep station outback. It's a lot easier to be a bit different when you can more easily control and know what your day will hold. He was home-schooled because there was no school within coo-ee of the station. All the boys were home-schooled but husband's dad was the son who was most willing to pitch in and help on the farm, even if it meant leaving his lessons. He was a genius when it came to problem solving and fixing things in very ingenious ways. Later in WWII this same knack was valued by his fellow soldiers and after he was a POW, he helped make things and fix things with ingenuity in the camps. This has been reported on independently.</p><p></p><p>I have a cousin, now dead, who I believe was Aspie. I have no way of knowing if he had any language delay, the only people who could tell me have now died. His sisters are younger, by the time they were born he was about six years old and his mother, a speech pathologist, would have worked intensively to resolve any language delay. He was a musical genius who for a time in the 50s and 60s was world-renowned for his composition and performance. Then he went even stranger (he always was a bit odd) and became a recluse.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 has cousins who themselves and/or their children, have similar Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-ish (but currently undiagnosed) problems. Some live in semi-isolation on farms, so for practical purposes, the parents can miniimise the impact of the problems on thier lives. But they need to do something because eventually the child has to mix, unless they can home-school.</p><p></p><p>My phone began to ring (someone form school, from the phone number) at 7 am. I missed the call and haven't been able to get a connection back. I tihnk it's difficult child 3's SPED.</p><p></p><p>As for me being good looking - I'm not the blonde. I'm the menopausal brunette with no make-up (except for the brief glimpse in the hospital, when I had on the wrong shade of lipstick). I hadn't realised just how middle-aged I look from that angle. My accent is broader than it used to be - I used to sound much more English. The blonde woman sounds more "ocker" than I do. The Aussie standard (what there is of one) is now much broader than it used to be, Aussie broadcasters and reporters are acceptable with broad accents these days. Back in the 60s when I was getting my own speech training, all efforts were being put in to panelbeat our flattened vowels back into fully rounded English tones. Then it became a bit too obvious and the "tall poppy" syndrome that levels off any attempt to sound "better" than anyone else saw me hurriedly "ockering up" again.</p><p></p><p>I rarely drink alcohol these days but it is a family joke that the more I drink, the more precise my speech becomes. I was leaving a party in the wee small hours a few decades ago when someone (very inebriated) turned to me (I wasn't, but I had been drinking plus I was tired) and he said to me, "You must be drunk, you're talking posh!"</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 is still a little pleased with himself and a bit surprised at the response we had last night. That photo of his injuries really was spectacular, the photos were taken by the ambulance officer who arrived within minutes of my call. That incident was two years ago. I'm a little anxious as to how those families will react. I did carry a copy of that photo with me in case one of the parents asked me how difficult child 3 was, after that incident. But te only parent who spoke to me wouldn't look at the photo, didn't want to know (because her son was only involved in verbal stuff, not trowing stuff). I did have a photo of the log they threw at difficult child 3 to show the news crew, it really was a nasty bit of wood with sharp pointy bits sticking out. That kind of tree is notorious for being very hard wood and also being very spiky. Few craftsmen will work with it but we have a local sculptor who deliberately works with "rubbish" wood because he uses the bad bits as a feature. His most recent piece that I've seen was with a piece of wood very similar to that damaging log - the guy left all the spiky bits on it and turned the piece into a crocodile head! A gnarled, distorted croc head which he called "old salty".</p><p></p><p>It will open up (like the crab scupture above). The little spikes have been smoothed down in this piece. The real thing is worse! The log thrown at difficult child 3 was also not rounded, it was long and spiky. And heavy. I'm amazed the kid could throw it.</p><p></p><p>And as I said to the reporter, to their credit the kids did stop when they saw what they had done. And they've not done it since (apart from that youngest one whose mother wouldn't look at the photo - that kid still hurls abuse at difficult child 3 when he sees him).</p><p></p><p>School hours are about to start here. I've got to hit the ground running, because it's also business hours and I need to possibly go out and see easy child 2/difficult child 2.</p><p></p><p>I'll check in today as and when I can.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 319391, member: 1991"] THanks, everyone. I do believe the higher incidence these days is a higher rate of recognition and broader scope of diagnosis. I look back through family through the generations and can see people who if born these days, would almost certainly get an autism diagnosis of some sort, but who were merely considered eccentric. husband's father was literally born and raised on a sheep station outback. It's a lot easier to be a bit different when you can more easily control and know what your day will hold. He was home-schooled because there was no school within coo-ee of the station. All the boys were home-schooled but husband's dad was the son who was most willing to pitch in and help on the farm, even if it meant leaving his lessons. He was a genius when it came to problem solving and fixing things in very ingenious ways. Later in WWII this same knack was valued by his fellow soldiers and after he was a POW, he helped make things and fix things with ingenuity in the camps. This has been reported on independently. I have a cousin, now dead, who I believe was Aspie. I have no way of knowing if he had any language delay, the only people who could tell me have now died. His sisters are younger, by the time they were born he was about six years old and his mother, a speech pathologist, would have worked intensively to resolve any language delay. He was a musical genius who for a time in the 50s and 60s was world-renowned for his composition and performance. Then he went even stranger (he always was a bit odd) and became a recluse. difficult child 3 has cousins who themselves and/or their children, have similar Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-ish (but currently undiagnosed) problems. Some live in semi-isolation on farms, so for practical purposes, the parents can miniimise the impact of the problems on thier lives. But they need to do something because eventually the child has to mix, unless they can home-school. My phone began to ring (someone form school, from the phone number) at 7 am. I missed the call and haven't been able to get a connection back. I tihnk it's difficult child 3's SPED. As for me being good looking - I'm not the blonde. I'm the menopausal brunette with no make-up (except for the brief glimpse in the hospital, when I had on the wrong shade of lipstick). I hadn't realised just how middle-aged I look from that angle. My accent is broader than it used to be - I used to sound much more English. The blonde woman sounds more "ocker" than I do. The Aussie standard (what there is of one) is now much broader than it used to be, Aussie broadcasters and reporters are acceptable with broad accents these days. Back in the 60s when I was getting my own speech training, all efforts were being put in to panelbeat our flattened vowels back into fully rounded English tones. Then it became a bit too obvious and the "tall poppy" syndrome that levels off any attempt to sound "better" than anyone else saw me hurriedly "ockering up" again. I rarely drink alcohol these days but it is a family joke that the more I drink, the more precise my speech becomes. I was leaving a party in the wee small hours a few decades ago when someone (very inebriated) turned to me (I wasn't, but I had been drinking plus I was tired) and he said to me, "You must be drunk, you're talking posh!" difficult child 3 is still a little pleased with himself and a bit surprised at the response we had last night. That photo of his injuries really was spectacular, the photos were taken by the ambulance officer who arrived within minutes of my call. That incident was two years ago. I'm a little anxious as to how those families will react. I did carry a copy of that photo with me in case one of the parents asked me how difficult child 3 was, after that incident. But te only parent who spoke to me wouldn't look at the photo, didn't want to know (because her son was only involved in verbal stuff, not trowing stuff). I did have a photo of the log they threw at difficult child 3 to show the news crew, it really was a nasty bit of wood with sharp pointy bits sticking out. That kind of tree is notorious for being very hard wood and also being very spiky. Few craftsmen will work with it but we have a local sculptor who deliberately works with "rubbish" wood because he uses the bad bits as a feature. His most recent piece that I've seen was with a piece of wood very similar to that damaging log - the guy left all the spiky bits on it and turned the piece into a crocodile head! A gnarled, distorted croc head which he called "old salty". It will open up (like the crab scupture above). The little spikes have been smoothed down in this piece. The real thing is worse! The log thrown at difficult child 3 was also not rounded, it was long and spiky. And heavy. I'm amazed the kid could throw it. And as I said to the reporter, to their credit the kids did stop when they saw what they had done. And they've not done it since (apart from that youngest one whose mother wouldn't look at the photo - that kid still hurls abuse at difficult child 3 when he sees him). School hours are about to start here. I've got to hit the ground running, because it's also business hours and I need to possibly go out and see easy child 2/difficult child 2. I'll check in today as and when I can. Marg [/QUOTE]
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