Re: Only child

[Guest guest]

My daughter is 9 and an only child. Not by my choice but my husband

never wanted more then 1, even before we learned of her autism

diagnosis. He said one time that he was not afraid of having another

child with autism but rather he was afraid of having an NT child. I

found this rather odd but I understand what he meant now--he was afraid

that he would favor the NT child but I don't think that could EVER

happen because his love for our daughter is HUGE. She is our princess!

As for the social interaction--we take her EVERYWHERE and she loves

being out and about. When we went to Mexico with 16 other family

memebers (and some cousins her age) she was wonderful with the entire

trip and seemed to like being with her cousins in the pool. She does

have limited social skills and does not have " normal " play skills (she

stims mostly on strings of beads and tassles and such) so the other

kids in our group tried their hardest to pull our DD into playing with

them but it was hard for her to do that. I do sometimes have play dates

for social interaction but I find that my daughter is not all that

interested in them. She will go on her swing set and play alone most of

the time even if I attempt to have the kids play together.

Tina

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> This is somewhat like a poll, but how many of us here have a daughter

that is an only child? If your daughter's an only child, how old is

she and what do you do to encourage social interaction either outside

of the home or inside?

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> Karmen

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[Guest guest]

She's been dancing for about 3 years, with typical kids. Her sisters both

dance and she grew up watching them so when she was 6 we asked her if she'd

like to take classes and she said yes, and she has the time of her life! She

started with Ballet, and now takes Jazz from her big sister (our oldest

teaches dance for a living). She just BEAMS when she's up there dancing. I

love that about her. She seems pretty flat much of the time, but when she

lights up, boy, her face really beams with joy! While the other girls are

mostly pretty straight-faced, worrying about remembering their next move,

Maddie is just smiling like a big dog through the whole class. I love that.

Don

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From: Autism_in_Girls

[mailto:Autism_in_Girls ] On Behalf Of kcboone

Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:25 PM

To: Autism_in_Girls

Subject: Re: Only child

Don,

That's terrific that you are finally getting services for your daughter. How

old was she when you first enrolled her in dance class? Is it a special

needs class, or are typical children enrolled also?

Karmen

Only child

This is somewhat like a poll, but how many of us here have a daughter that

is an only child? If your daughter's an only child, how old is she and what

do you do to encourage social interaction either outside of the home or

inside?

Karmen