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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 705646" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>A truly incredible Special Education teacher told me that you could work with 100 people with Asperger's and meet person Aspie 101 and Aspie 101 would present in a completely and totally unique way from every Aspie you had ever met before. </p><p></p><p>She said that this is because autism is such a complex spectrum and it involves so many complicated facets. Doctors call things like ADHD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and sensory integration disorder co-morbid conditions, but this special education teacher called them facets of the autism, just parts of it. It made it far easier to understand and accept them rather than thinking my son had so many different things 'wrong' with him. Instead he had this complex neurological difference called autism that the rest of us just didn't have. I have often thought that his depression is part of the autism, of realizing how different he is and how much he has to cope with. In time I think it will change to realizing how special he is, but he is likely a few years away from that. </p><p></p><p>Again, I don't know if your daughter has autism of any type. I do think it is possible. I know for a stone cold F A C T that you can have autism/Aspergers and be spoiled/manipulative. My oldest son certainly was, and was high functioning enough to be great at it. His therapists ALL eventually commented on how well he used what they wanted from him to get whatever he wanted from from both the therapist AND his parents. Yes, he was a total jerk at times. Depression did not change that, and some of the depression medications made it worse.</p><p></p><p>I forget, did they do the DNA testing to see if the medications are the right ones? If you answered this, I am sorry. If not, they can test to at least get you into the right ballpark for medications, which saves much time, error and awful side effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 705646, member: 1233"] A truly incredible Special Education teacher told me that you could work with 100 people with Asperger's and meet person Aspie 101 and Aspie 101 would present in a completely and totally unique way from every Aspie you had ever met before. She said that this is because autism is such a complex spectrum and it involves so many complicated facets. Doctors call things like ADHD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and sensory integration disorder co-morbid conditions, but this special education teacher called them facets of the autism, just parts of it. It made it far easier to understand and accept them rather than thinking my son had so many different things 'wrong' with him. Instead he had this complex neurological difference called autism that the rest of us just didn't have. I have often thought that his depression is part of the autism, of realizing how different he is and how much he has to cope with. In time I think it will change to realizing how special he is, but he is likely a few years away from that. Again, I don't know if your daughter has autism of any type. I do think it is possible. I know for a stone cold F A C T that you can have autism/Aspergers and be spoiled/manipulative. My oldest son certainly was, and was high functioning enough to be great at it. His therapists ALL eventually commented on how well he used what they wanted from him to get whatever he wanted from from both the therapist AND his parents. Yes, he was a total jerk at times. Depression did not change that, and some of the depression medications made it worse. I forget, did they do the DNA testing to see if the medications are the right ones? If you answered this, I am sorry. If not, they can test to at least get you into the right ballpark for medications, which saves much time, error and awful side effects. [/QUOTE]
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