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Penrith, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA


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Comment by Aspergers
on Asperger's Child - The Day Jack Flapped

September 24th 2008 17:50
Cinico,
would like to know how yourself and jack are handling and whether or not you are both fine with the prospect of jack having AS? what plans do you have in place for jacks growth & development whilst he would be at school?

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Comment by Aspergers
on Asperger's Child - The Day Jack Flapped

September 14th 2008 12:43
the bullying during my schooling years was the main reason why i had to change my habit of flapping my arms, as this would result in continual bullying. the first day at school when i got excited over an activity we were about to do i flapped my hand and next minute i was at the bottom of the pecking order. as for my memories i dont know how old i was when it happened, eg jurassic park i thought i was about 6 not 2. most memories are of my early childhood (5-9) and the bullying i received.

over the years as i said i changed it to an eye twitch, which i do not notice unless someone pointed it out to me. when i was younger i remember flapping my arms only when people would say something about my flappying is what i remember apart from the few videos of my childhood.

due to the tormenting that us AS individuals get we try to life our lives through our imagination. in which for me sometimes due to the bullying i would have a feeling of psychosis (not knowing difference between imagination and real world- dreaming or real?). however in saying this we are quite capable of living our lives in this way. i would say this is something that keeps us innocent at heart, same as the flapping.

majority of people do not live through imagination or when they get excited they don't flap their arms, but the younger you are at heart than the more you use something children use to have a good life. i myself may be 18 but i have a social age of a 13-14yr old, and i find the subtle things in life good. although of the young social age i have an intellectual ability of a 28-30 yr old.

most people could put this down to AS, but personally i believe that it is not AS itself. It is experiences that we have that are so different from the majority that define who we are and how we think in life. as our social lives are not normal to our age we end to find comfort in learning thus whilst we get smarting our social behaviors stay constant or progress at a slower rate, which would explain why i still flap my hands.

sorry to making these posts long, it would be good to hear from you Cinico and to know how jack is handling. we may lack the empathy but we can empathise for those who are the same to us, and anyone else who has questions pls dont hesitate to ask. you may get answer from the carers/parents of the children but why not get one from someone who experiences the impact of it everyday.

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Comment by Aspergers
on Asperger's Child - The Day Jack Flapped

September 11th 2008 07:53
my main goal for life is to get into child psychology, and to settle down with a girl who will like me for who i am, try to understand why im like this and who wouldnt try to change me too much.

at both my primary and jnr high school i found that the teachers tried to change who i am and now i feel as if its more down putting to yourself, especially for young kids.

one thing i find particularly hard is not to lie, which means for any parents out there if yours kids lie to you they will suffer from alot of guilt. i will at most times get in trouble from girls who would ask "do i look fat?'. in which i would tell the truth.

as shebooo was saying about her son having different diagnosis' from various people i was told i had in order:

1. shyness
2. ADHD
3. ADD
4. Bipolar

as i said my special interest is in psych, i came across tony attwoods The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome. in which on completion i reading this book i was sure i had it and pursued it until i got my diagnosis.

the problems is that the schools are supposed to have a duty of care over every child in the school and looking after the well-being of the individuals, in which they never do support the kids who like myself have few friends. during year 1-10 i had no friends, for the trouble i was having with the bullying-physical,mental and verbal abuse including broken bones. my school accused me of starting these so i was in trouble.

will finish this later....

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Comment by Aspergers
on Asperger's Child - The Day Jack Flapped

September 10th 2008 06:42
I do not find that people who have AS are all the same. Out of about 120 different autistic traits we (aspergers individuals) should have roughly about 80-100. Whilst most of the population have about 20.

Tea_time as i see everyone still continues to flap their hands when they are having an extremely good or joyful moment- if you look at people who win game shows, most of them will flap their entire arms at the sheer fact of whatever is on there mind. As for your other questions I'm am not sure. I currently will be sitting my HSC in 5 weeks and have applied for psychology, even if i don't succeed into entering university i will still educate myself further in the field of psychology, preferably i would like to be a child psych dealing with people with ADHD and other disorders similar, in which AS is very similar to ADHD.
the only study that i have heard about is whether or not the fetal testosterone levels are what causes AS- 90,000 participants.
Although the flapping is present some people with and without AS, like myself, may have physical problems such as dysdiadokinesia- which doesn't allow proper fluent hand movements. So the flapping may result in a whole arm movement, however in saying this i was able to get movement in my hands by the age of 5 and normal flapping persisted.
Another good thing about others like myself is that we have extremely good long term memory. When i was only 2 i can remember going to a drive in cinema and watching Jurassic Park, in which most children wouldn't remember.
If you have any other questions that anyone would like to hear from someone with AS to put into our perspective, i will happily oblige to answer them. As you said "it's fascinating to hear about AS from the inside".

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Comment by Aspergers
on Asperger's Child - The Day Jack Flapped

September 9th 2008 14:41
G'Day all,
I'm an 18yr old aspergers individual that was only diagnosed recently. when i am by myself i will flap my arms frantically, only when i"m by myself. this is one thing my mother tried to stop me doing whilst at home and it caused more harm than good. as we grow older we do notice that there is a difference between ourselves and others, especially with the bullying that majority of us receive.
before my diagnosis the only opinion my previous school had for someone like me was that i was being 'interfered with' and none of the bullies were punished. after they recognised i had AS the bullying remained, however i wasn't aware of what was happening around me as i would preoccupy myself with a special interest. this would incur the flapping of my hands as i got further immersed in an interest.
as we find it difficult to show empathy through facial expressions we need something else to express our feelings. when I'm happy i flap faster & wen I'm depressed/angry i will flap at a slightly slower speed. thus this is a way for us to express ourselves and we should be left to free do this or taught another way that doesn't stand out in public.When i am in public i have after about 5 years been able to change the flapping to a constant eye twitch.
if this post would still go it would be good as anything in psychology is my special interest and as i do have AS you can get an inside opinion. A world without empathy or lack of empathy is quite a miserable lifestyle to have, but we must all learn to live with it as no one is perfect, we are all unique.

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