autism characteristics

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Janet

That sounds very familiar.

My son will be 31 next week and is happily married and in a management

position at a software company. He still likes to know what is coming

- doesn't handle drop in company, etc. and has many sensory

sensitivities. He has panic attacks in large crowds, especially if

being touched. He has made so much progress due to his determination.

He use to have trouble with the textures of food and therefore had a

very limited list of foods he would eat. He now eats everything.

I hope your son continues to improve. When my son reacts in a

different way than others, he just tells his wife " it is an autism

thing " .

laurie

> My now 12 yr old son had/has autism tendenacies when he was little. I even

got literature from a local autism group. He would line up the dog biscuits and

other toys and did not like change. He also did not talk when he was 2 1/2 but

was very smart. We played alot of " cherades " with him pointing to what he

wanted in the cupboard. We sought help thru the local birth to 3 program and he

went to a special school 45 minutes from our little city. They helped him to

play with other kids and talk a little. When he was 3 he came back to our local

school and they worked with him. He still had social issues around kids he did

not know into the 2nd grade. Just recently last year in 6th grade did he grow

out of most of his " shyness " . My kid would run out of the Mcs playland if

other kids came in, he ran out of the library where we registered for

kindergarten when he saw other kids in there. He even ran out of the small zoo

he had been to lots of times when another member with mito came to visit with

her son and daughter and her son is the same age. That was just a couple of

years ago.

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> The new school he started last year because we moved the counselor thinks he

may have Auspbergs Syndrome--a social type disease. He is very smart and has

gotten awards in school for math, geography, science. He is also very

comfortable around kids he has known for awhile but not other kids.

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> As far as regression goes, when he is sick or tired he regresses to acting

like a 3 yr old. back in 2002 when he was having all of the constipation

problems, he would have been 11, during one hospital visit the nurse commented

that he was acting like a little baby.

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> He also recently grew out of episodes where if he was tired or sick and also

upset he would not tell you what was wrong but would just write single words on

a sheet of paper. Like playing cherades.

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> Janet Sample