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hello i'm new here my son jacob is 6 almost 7 and was diagnosed with high

functioning autism possibly asperger. He was diagnosed around age 5 but we

always knew before hand that he would be. I got him into therapy around the age

of two after he stopped speaking and really i had always noticed even as a baby

that something was just a little different. He has come such a long way and it

has been a very long 6 years. My question today is i was wondering what to do

about discipline for him. He has never seemed to care about anything we do. We

can take every toy away from him and make him sit in time out for awhile and it

doesn't seem to be working. Talking with him helps alittle but he will just

forget the next day. My issue today is he had an awesome first two weeks of

school and now this week is been terrible. He has folder marks everyday this

week. Its not like him to get them everyday.Some of it of course is just

teachers nitpicking but some things bother me. Like him messing with other

children while they are working and so much they can't get their work done.

Telling the teachers he doesn't want too is another. Its been all week of

talking back and messing with other kids. I make him do chores i take his toys

away and he immediately goes to time out when we get home. Is there any other

suggestions i could do that may have a better affect on him? The school seemed

to think he was ready for a normal classroom setting but then they expect him to

act like a perfect gentleman which besides having autism he is still just a six

year old boy. Drives me crazy. He still takes speech therapy and his

understanding is still very behind although his speech and communicating is so

much better. Oh yeah and my husband and i have seen a pattern from last year and

this year that he has bad weeks whenever we leave town the weekend before.

Doesn't matter where we go but if we leave town for the weekend his week at

school is a harder week. If we stay home then he has good weeks. Not sure why

but we have noticed it! thanks shara stewart