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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 84182" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>Marg,</p><p></p><p>This is just a thought. I notice in your signature you note that your daughter has AS signs. My husband has more than just signs, he definitely has AS. One manifestation of this is his tendency to go off on lengthy monologues. I mean LENGTHY. Though I love him dearly, he has never used 100 words when he could use 10,000. </p><p></p><p>He has miraculously turned this characteristic into a plus in his professional life. He is an attorney and he specializes in writing briefs (trust me they aren't :smile: ) for Federal appeals for other attorneys who have lost their cases in lower courts. He can always find issues that they have missed. He learned long time ago that judges don't like his oral style , but they can tolerate his written style. He rarely appears in court. He also began a software business when other attorneys checked out (and liked) his office management software and this has become a booming business that he loves most of all the work he does.(The other attorneys love his attention to detail.) He is sought out as a visiting professor at various Universities and does quite a bit of public speaking. In short, he has turned what is his tendency to speak on and on into a good job skill - and we are all very proud of him for this!</p><p></p><p>But, when it comes to socialization - well that's another story. His dear friends and family know to not ask him too many questions. And if you do, well, you better hunker down for an hour or so. If we don't at home - he gets furious with us because "we're not listening". His days of his passionate responses (to what he views as our disrespect) that your daughter has are over... but he used to have them. We've come to love and accept him as he is. We're not on the social track that I would like to be on, I'm a much more social person. But that's o.k. as the good outweighs the bad. I do believe that this "lecturing" characteristic is a very intergral part of the AS personality. I've never met a person with AS who didn't have it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 84182, member: 3704"] Marg, This is just a thought. I notice in your signature you note that your daughter has AS signs. My husband has more than just signs, he definitely has AS. One manifestation of this is his tendency to go off on lengthy monologues. I mean LENGTHY. Though I love him dearly, he has never used 100 words when he could use 10,000. He has miraculously turned this characteristic into a plus in his professional life. He is an attorney and he specializes in writing briefs (trust me they aren't [img]:smile:[/img] ) for Federal appeals for other attorneys who have lost their cases in lower courts. He can always find issues that they have missed. He learned long time ago that judges don't like his oral style , but they can tolerate his written style. He rarely appears in court. He also began a software business when other attorneys checked out (and liked) his office management software and this has become a booming business that he loves most of all the work he does.(The other attorneys love his attention to detail.) He is sought out as a visiting professor at various Universities and does quite a bit of public speaking. In short, he has turned what is his tendency to speak on and on into a good job skill - and we are all very proud of him for this! But, when it comes to socialization - well that's another story. His dear friends and family know to not ask him too many questions. And if you do, well, you better hunker down for an hour or so. If we don't at home - he gets furious with us because "we're not listening". His days of his passionate responses (to what he views as our disrespect) that your daughter has are over... but he used to have them. We've come to love and accept him as he is. We're not on the social track that I would like to be on, I'm a much more social person. But that's o.k. as the good outweighs the bad. I do believe that this "lecturing" characteristic is a very intergral part of the AS personality. I've never met a person with AS who didn't have it. [/QUOTE]
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