My Son is Showing a Lot of Maturity!

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Since my son started the community college in the fall of 2008, his maturity level has developed more that I ever could have hoped. Last year, at Valentines, he mustered the courage to ask a young lady out. They dated for just under a year when she broke up with him. He held it together, and wisely said that he did not want to think about asking anyone out until after Valentine's Day.Yesterday, he posted this on Facebook--- Talk about mom being excited!!!looking back, I realize, I could have probably made more friends in high school, had I not gotten so pissed off when people would make fun of me.Debbi in SO CAMom to 23 and 20

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How wonderful!!!!

Pam

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> Since my son started the community college in the fall of 2008, his

> maturity level has developed more that I ever could have hoped. Last

> year, at Valentines, he mustered the courage to ask a young lady out.

> They dated for just under a year when she broke up with him. He held it

> together, and wisely said that he did not want to think about asking

> anyone out until after Valentine's Day.

>

> Yesterday, he posted this on Facebook--- Talk about mom being excited!!!

>

> looking back, I realize, I could have probably made more friends in high

> school, had I not gotten so pissed off when people would make fun of me.

>

>

> Debbi in SO CA

> Mom to 23 and 20

>

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Thank you for sharing your

story. I’ve been waiting (impatiently) to hear about anyone with a

positive report on good progress with their ASPIE.

I’ve been feeling so

hopeless watching my 15 yr old son constantly struggle while having dreams of

going to a major university and having a career when he has so many deficits he

has no understanding about and refuses to work on.

Belita

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Is that really a good lesson to learn? I mean getting a raise out of someone is

a good reason to continue to make fun of them... but then again if your

everyones whipping boy (being made fun of implies its not friendly banter), you

don't make many friends either. Either way your sortof screwed once you start

getting picked on.

>

> Since my son started the community college in the fall of 2008, his

> maturity level has developed more that I ever could have hoped. Last

> year, at Valentines, he mustered the courage to ask a young lady out.

> They dated for just under a year when she broke up with him. He held it

> together, and wisely said that he did not want to think about asking

> anyone out until after Valentine's Day.

>

> Yesterday, he posted this on Facebook--- Talk about mom being excited!!!

>

> looking back, I realize, I could have probably made more friends in high

> school, had I not gotten so pissed off when people would make fun of me.

>

>

> Debbi in SO CA

> Mom to 23 and 20

>

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I try to be positive and put positive with things I type........our sons have been very trainable, redirectable; my 8 year old AS used to drool, be a mess in public, etc; he is almost like every other child in public now. I cried the first time he sang in front of about 500 people (LITERALLY) at his school music concert....still think it was because he actually thought we left because he couldn't see us in the crowd----we thought he knew where we were and had pointed ourselves totally out for him but you know, I just CRIED happy tears because it was the first time. Our son improves EVERY SINGLE DAY. Our 16 year old AS is a journey but he is progressing. EVERYDAY, they do provide us soooo many lessons to learn from, but I agree, it is NOT often we get on and say, "TOday, my son made eye contact all day!" So, let it be said, our sons have improved a lot, and each day there is something positive about them and their behaviors (some days the negative don't outweigh them LOL--with a smile!----but they don't get typed on here.). Proud mom of four boys, 2 with AS Ruthie Dolezal

From: bsrossin@...Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:00:57 -0800Subject: ( ) Re:My Son is Showing a Lot of Maturity!

Thank you for sharing your story. I’ve been waiting (impatiently) to hear about anyone with a positive report on good progress with their ASPIE.

I’ve been feeling so hopeless watching my 15 yr old son constantly struggle while having dreams of going to a major university and having a career when he has so many deficits he has no understanding about and refuses to work on.

Belita