Re:anyone near me?

January 24, 2008

I may be the closest, I live in the tri-cities (Mt. Carmel)

CHRISTY WILLIAMS

January 24, 2008

I live in xenia ohio---kristi

Christy wrote: I may be the

closest, I live in the tri-cities (Mt. Carmel)

CHRISTY WILLIAMS

January 25, 2008

Haha, I got you beat, lol. I live in Knoxville, between you two. I was

actually born in burg, I was in Murfresboro 2 wks ago, but we

don't go down very regularly.

Debi

January 27, 2008

Gosh, I'm in Santa CA. Anyone near me? I have a 9 year old

daughter, mildly autistic, despite being in the school system's Special

Education classes all her life, she was never diagnosed with Autism. We

suddenly started doing research and realized she displays many of the

classic symptoms, although not all are severe. I'm blessed to be here

and look forward to learning how to better connect and teach and learn

from my wonderful, incredible, sweet little girl!

Don

>

> Haha, I got you beat, lol. I live in Knoxville, between you two. I

was

> actually born in burg, I was in Murfresboro 2 wks ago, but we

> don't go down very regularly.

>

> Debi

>

January 27, 2008

Hello Don,

I am new to this board. We also live in Calif., but, unfortunately

we live in the Temecula area in Southern Ca. I noticed that many on

this board live across the country. My daughter is 15 and is very

mildly autistic. We have not really had her officially tested, but

for a psychologist, who said it was high functioning. Her main

problems are social and she tends to " rip " at her fingers or pull

eyebrows or eyelashes out or rub her skin till raw. I am always on

her about it though. She is the typical computer geek and loves to

draw and live in her fantasy world. She is mostly into " Sonic the

Hedgehog " and has been since 2nd grade! She has never had language

problems, except for talking like Furby for a couple of years (that

was a few years ago). It is hard when they are so high functioning,

because they seem to fall through the cracks. Especially being a

girl. I am homeschooling now and have given up on really getting any

services. I know I did not try very hard though. She is very

intellegent and gets great grades, it just takes her twice as long to

get the work done as she zones out alot.

I don't know why I am writing all of this, but just wish you the best

with your little blessing. They are all gifts from the Lord!

Amy

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> > Haha, I got you beat, lol. I live in Knoxville, between you two.

I

> was

> > actually born in burg, I was in Murfresboro 2 wks ago, but

we

> > don't go down very regularly.

> >

> > Debi

> >

>

January 27, 2008

Hi Amy,

Thanks so much for connecting with me about your daughter. My girl and I

play Sonic the Hedgehog too! LOL She really loves the Cars video game, too,

so we play together. The only acting out she does is when she gets

frustrated with something like trying to thread a bead that has no hole, or

if she can't find something.

She's never mastered number two on the toilet, but she finally goes pee

there! We're encouraging her to continue to try to remember to use the

toilet for poop but she says she doesn't always feel it coming on. We've

worked with specialists on this with Maddie and managed to get her to use

the toilet for peeing, so we're half way there!

I appreciate you sharing about your daughter, Amy. Maddie is very

intelligent, too, and is pretty phenomenal on the keyboard, coming home from

church after hearing a song one time and playing the melody on the piano

with very few mistakes! I'm a musician too, so we're beginning to record

some songs now too, and she's very excited about that, as am I.

We plan on homeschooling the minute we see the world rubbing off on her, but

so far she's still the sweet, patient, wonderful little girl she's always

been, despite being in Special Education with a couple of mean kids and some

children who act out a lot. She's pretty independent so she hasn't become

like the kids around her, praise God!

I'm looking for some actual groups up here in Sonoma County, to see if we

can connect with other parents and other children who have autism. So far, I

know no one!

Don

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