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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 144578" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I've been having conversations with difficult child 3's correspondence teachers about the problems he is having in some subjects, trying to make the social leap towards 'normality'. He simply can't do some of the more subtle tasks they want from him. In English he can define every word in the text he is given, but ask him to explain what the entire passage means and he's totally lost.</p><p></p><p>He seems very bright. In some subjects (the more concrete scientific ones), he is. But it's a facade. So many people see the high-functioning and think "high functioning = not very autistic at all". But in fact, the level of functioning can be independent of the degree of autism. You can have a profoundly handicapped Aspie with a worse prognosis than a mildly affected full autistic. </p><p></p><p>On the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) scale, difficult child 3 scores moderate. And yet he can do a number of tasks better than his Aspie older brother, who scores as mild. </p><p></p><p>I think difficult child 3 summed it up best back when he was 8 and he said, "I'm getting better at pretending to be normal."</p><p></p><p>He's now 6 years older and he's brilliant at it. But it doesn't MAKE him normal.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 144578, member: 1991"] I've been having conversations with difficult child 3's correspondence teachers about the problems he is having in some subjects, trying to make the social leap towards 'normality'. He simply can't do some of the more subtle tasks they want from him. In English he can define every word in the text he is given, but ask him to explain what the entire passage means and he's totally lost. He seems very bright. In some subjects (the more concrete scientific ones), he is. But it's a facade. So many people see the high-functioning and think "high functioning = not very autistic at all". But in fact, the level of functioning can be independent of the degree of autism. You can have a profoundly handicapped Aspie with a worse prognosis than a mildly affected full autistic. On the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) scale, difficult child 3 scores moderate. And yet he can do a number of tasks better than his Aspie older brother, who scores as mild. I think difficult child 3 summed it up best back when he was 8 and he said, "I'm getting better at pretending to be normal." He's now 6 years older and he's brilliant at it. But it doesn't MAKE him normal. Marg [/QUOTE]
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