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Hello, everyone, I guess I am having one of my "moments" today and could use some re-assurance about my sons future. Junior Mint is 5 and 3 months, very high funcitoning PDD-NOS child. He will be in a mainstreem kindergarden in the fall and academically, he does very very well. He is verbal, laughs, is very active and has NO tantrums at all, he is as sweet as pie. We just got done the soccer season, he stuck it out, didn't do to much but run with the kids so I was kinda disapointed but realized that with his delays, I gotta deal with it. Now, in practice, he did great, the coach would even say how good he did and the while team really just ran around during the games except a few kids who did real well. (This is a lot of rambling but I am a but emotional now) So we spent the weekend in our pool and Junior is swimming pretty good with just the arm floats, not scared of water at all, doesn't jump in but still loves it, he will start a nice summer camp soon and have madatory swimming lessons each day, gymastics, golf and arts& crafts so I am hoping he does ok at the camp, it will be from 9-1 so a nice 1/2 day program, they are used to kids with all kinds of delays, kids that have none etc.. we did specify on the form about it and also talked with them and when we visited the camp, the director saw Junior and and how he was running up and down the playground ladders and said "wow, he is active and will do fine", I did trust him as he has said they have had kids with more severe autisim and the school Junior goes to is very familier to them, the pre-k program, plus I kinda know the guy. So really, he needs help with his social skills as he is very shy and still needs help interacting and the home tutor will be working on that this summer, she will even go to the camp some days to observe. I can play with him fine, I do see the delays but I also see his stongpoints like building things and him on the computer. At his IEP they showed us his chart of how much he has progressed and it was amazing, he is actually at the 6 year age mark for a lot of things, their are still some things like social interaction that he is a bit below but we get nothing but praises about him. He has been in Karate for over a year and is doing great, he listins and his body coordination is getting real good. I guess if you are still reading after that long post, thank you first, but second, what lies in my future ?? He is so close to being "Normal" if thats the right word but the autistic tendancies will just never go away. With a high functioning child like mine, will he have friends when he gets older ? Will he be able to do more things and be able to at least live close to a normal stile life or does it get worse ?? Sorry for the tone of my post, I am having a brainfart right now and I get kinda panicky about things like this and I figured "hey, tell it all on the message board as their are great people their" Does anyone have a high functioning PDD-NOS child who is able to interact ok and have at least some friends when they get older like 7,8 and 9 ??? I remeber when I was in school, their was kids without any delays that were just loners or didn't have friends because they were just that way but Junior Mint has these delays and crap, if it wasn't for them he would be even more outgoing and supreman! LOL I guess I want to here some success stories, I know how lucky I am and how much tougher it could be as a lot of kids are non-verbal, have tantrums etcc. All things that Junior doesn't so thats a big plus but still, being on the spectrum is tough. I am getting this guilt trip that its my fault he got this way, maybe because I partied in school ???? Drank beer when I was under 21 ??? I totally feel like its my fault and its eating away at my gut. Well, thats it, if you made it to read this full post, thank you... Just one of those days today. Last Night as I was walking around my apartment complex I saw this girl who lives on her own throwing some things out. I asked her if she was moving. SHe lives independently has friends. She is on HUD. She even has a boyfriend. Now being it she is little odd. When I asked her is she was moving she also told me she is high functioning autism. Now she was diagnosed as an adult. She said they her family all knew something was wrong. But she was raised as normal as possible told she could do anything. All in all she is independent working and living a so called "normal" life. I went to sleep with a little more hope. I think yeah we know our kids have delays but at some point keeping those in mind we need to enjoy and get the most out of every moment of our kids. Get the IEP and modifications in place. I tell my son he can do anything in world. He still the same kid as before the diagnosis. Looking to be loved looking to love and storm the world learning things. I worry but the future but what we do today in stepping stone to then. As my son neur said that future is endless and we don't know what will be so we need to joy every moment. You sound like a strong and wonderful parent to junior mint. wow Andsmama! Thats kinda relieving to here. I have my days when everything is fine and I just accept it and really don't care too much about it. Other days, like today, I get all caught up in thought and get so paraniod, my mondays are always bad ! LOL I just like to her success stories, every now and then I think we parents need to here success stories to keep us positive. Their is so much going on on helping them achive things that I hardly get to just stop and smell the roses so to speak, just stop and enjoy him as if nothing is wrong. And I don't think thats bad, 20 years ago they didn't have all these diagnosis's , sometimes, all I think about is the spectrum and I can't get it outa my head. Its tough..
One more story my 37 year old brother who was diagnosed low functioning autistic. He still lives at home but independtly he does every thing on his own he hold a full time night job where he works alone. He has a Bachelor of Science is Psychology and he told us he did this degree to figure himself out. Then he also got a Bachelor of Arts in ENglish to learn how to express himself. When we younger my mom was told he would know how to really care and love someone else. The love and feelings he shows for my son brings out tears thinking about. He takes him out and really tries to provide and since my sons father is not in his life he told me once he needs to be as much as he can my sons role model. My brother is my sons god father. Socially he's behind but in these past three years since the birth of my son he has made leaps and bounds in every thing. Maybe just maybe with alittle suppervision he can live on his own. We hope. If I ever get married I would not know how to explain him! my son is 19. he is on the low functioning side of autism. never would have believed he would be where he is at this stage. he was a sit in corner and moan child at age 3. he loves music and plays miniature golf. goes out to work at school. he is non verbal but types on a speller what he needs. will never be able to live on his own but i am ok with that. do not measure your child against other children. he will excell in some areas and not progress as far in others. stress where he excells. none of us know the future but there is more research and programs starting up for these kids. his biggest asset is you and your love for him. always let him know that you are there for him.Seniormint, I also know of several high functioning adults that are living on their own and doing quite well. I met them through my local Autism Society. Wow Col, he can play minature golf? Lol, I totally suck at that game. So tell him if he ever wants to win, he can play against me, Tammy Senior mint your son sounds like he is doing great. Yur post describes a very accomplished happy little boy. so as far being on the spectrum I would think he is in the best place possible cosidering he is ASD. maybe he will keep progressing and end up indistiguishable from his peers but if not he sounds like as close to NT as is possible. Some days are very hard..hope you feel better soon. For Andysmama-What does your 37 yr. old brother do for work? My son is 17 and we are researching all available employment options.My brother works as a night auditor in a hotel. . .He works graveyard and its perfect becuase there is not much socilaztion needed. . .He has been there two years and has receive $2.50 raise. . . .He does not know how to say no but beside being socially backwards and does not always make sense when you speak with him he has made wonderful progess inspite of a grim diagnosis. . .funny about the miniature golf. not really into anything related to sports very hypotonic and i think just walking diffucult at times. loves the golf tho. only thing i have ever really seen him be competetive over. really gets into it.I keep thinking the same things. I guess with the younger babies here that is all we can think. Most of us have just been told about dx which means we are getting told what they cant do, wont do. It makes it very hard to deal with and leaves us thinking but what can they do. Corbin is almost 3 pdd-nos. I am really starting to see his delays now. I have hope he will talk well since he has such good jibberish, I picture a non-verbal kid not doing that. (is that right?) But sometimes he acts so young for age. I am still getting used to people staring at his tantrums and oddddd behavior (staring at lights and gawking). I have an internal conflict of give him a passy or let him cry? I am preparing myself for the day that someone says something to me!!! Ginger [QUOTE=seniormint]Hello, everyone, I guess I am having one of my "moments" today and could use some re-assurance about my sons future. Junior Mint is 5 and 3 months, very high funcitoning PDD-NOS child. He will be in a mainstreem kindergarden in the fall and academically, he does very very well. He is verbal, laughs, is very active and has NO tantrums at all, he is as sweet as pie. We just got done the soccer season, he stuck it out, didn't do to much but run with the kids so I was kinda disapointed but realized that with his delays, I gotta deal with it. Now, in practice, he did great, the coach would even say how good he did and the while team really just ran around during the games except a few kids who did real well. (This is a lot of rambling but I am a but emotional now) So we spent the weekend in our pool and Junior is swimming pretty good with just the arm floats, not scared of water at all, doesn't jump in but still loves it, he will start a nice summer camp soon and have madatory swimming lessons each day, gymastics, golf and arts& crafts so I am hoping he does ok at the camp, it will be from 9-1 so a nice 1/2 day program, they are used to kids with all kinds of delays, kids that have none etc.. we did specify on the form about it and also talked with them and when we visited the camp, the director saw Junior and and how he was running up and down the playground ladders and said "wow, he is active and will do fine", I did trust him as he has said they have had kids with more severe autisim and the school Junior goes to is very familier to them, the pre-k program, plus I kinda know the guy. So really, he needs help with his social skills as he is very shy and still needs help interacting and the home tutor will be working on that this summer, she will even go to the camp some days to observe. I can play with him fine, I do see the delays but I also see his stongpoints like building things and him on the computer. At his IEP they showed us his chart of how much he has progressed and it was amazing, he is actually at the 6 year age mark for a lot of things, their are still some things like social interaction that he is a bit below but we get nothing but praises about him. He has been in Karate for over a year and is doing great, he listins and his body coordination is getting real good. I guess if you are still reading after that long post, thank you first, but second, what lies in my future ?? He is so close to being "Normal" if thats the right word but the autistic tendancies will just never go away. With a high functioning child like mine, will he have friends when he gets older ? Will he be able to do more things and be able to at least live close to a normal stile life or does it get worse ?? Sorry for the tone of my post, I am having a brainfart right now and I get kinda panicky about things like this and I figured "hey, tell it all on the message board as their are great people their" Does anyone have a high functioning PDD-NOS child who is able to interact ok and have at least some friends when they get older like 7,8 and 9 ??? I remeber when I was in school, their was kids without any delays that were just loners or didn't have friends because they were just that way but Junior Mint has these delays and crap, if it wasn't for them he would be even more outgoing and supreman! LOL I guess I want to here some success stories, I know how lucky I am and how much tougher it could be as a lot of kids are non-verbal, have tantrums etcc. All things that Junior doesn't so thats a big plus but still, being on the spectrum is tough. I am getting this guilt trip that its my fault he got this way, maybe because I partied in school ???? Drank beer when I was under 21 ??? I totally feel like its my fault and its eating away at my gut. Well, thats it, if you made it to read this full post, thank you... Just one of those days today. [/QUOTE]Hi, I have been working as a private therapist specifically doing verbal behavior for about 4 years now. I find that my kids are responding very well to this type of teaching from an academic standpoint. However, eventhough the children can be on lvel with their peers in that sense, I find that developing relationships is the hardest part. I have just begun researching and doing some work with Relationship Development Intervention. It focuses on social skills and being able to relate to others. For me it was an instant"wow. this is the missing link I have been searching for!" If you haven't already, I recommend the website www.connectionscenter.com wow you checked out this post from back in June! lol. How nice of you to check backwards for people. Amber I thinks its just that I am so excited about RDI and I saw that post, I had to respond. well my son is 23, he does not have freinds, has had few thru the years and they didnt last long, the one that did ended up stealing stuff from him so we didnt allow him over anymore. I have never had good interaction wih freinds, cant teach them what you dont know, my daughter does good with freinds, but other son has hard time making freinds also, Bobby is High funtioning autism, he does not really care as much as I do, sure he would like freinds, but his social skills never reached that far to allow him to intereact for too long, he says he has freinds online and he goes to college, drives, and someday may live on his own. At least that is our goal. If someone finds secret to freindships let me know, it is a mystery how some have so many freinds and others cant find one. I keep telling them to join groups, interact, stay busy. If your life is full you dont have time to worry about why you dont have freinds.I believe this is my biggest fear for my son who is 4. I often see him playing by his self. My dw tells me I worry too much, that she always played by her self when she was a little girl. I guess I worry because I am a VERY social person. Some may say too social. Anyway that’s how I feel. Thanks for listening. Oh Asly great site, thanks My son in 11 and doesn't really have any friends. He is not upset about it because I don't think he wants to interact with other kids. He does talk to just about any adult and will even go into a store and ask questions about something like a video game. He will ask any adult if he can pet their dogs. He wants to be an electrician when he grows up. And we think that would be good because it is more of a solitary kind of job. Everyone in his life is trying to get him to have friends, but he usually says "no thanks". Friendships have always been a struggle for my son too. He's HF pdd-nos, has a desire for friendship but social anxiety and social skills deficit gets in the way. (Their loss... he's a great kid!) The good news is we've found that it only takes one person to make a difference. There is a wonderful young man in our church who understands our sons difficulties and has reached out to him in a mentor sort of way. Yes, as a mom, I would love to see a true, reciprocal friendship - but in the meantime, a relationship like this is doing wonders for his well-being too. The administrator of his school has also 'taken him under his wing' and goes out of his way to engage him and build him up during the school day. I guess what I'm saying is that the difficulties remain and we aren't seeing friendships in the traditional sense but other types of relationships can offset the lack of peer friendship.I'M GLAD THIS SUBJECT WAS BROUGHT UP AGAIN. MY LITTLE GUY IS ONLY 2 BUT I WORRY ABOUT HIM HAVING FRIENDS IN THE FUTURE. HIS S.T. SAYS THAT HE'S GOING TO BE AN ENGINEER SOMEDAY, WHILE THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL, I SAID I WOULD RATHER HIM WORK AT WAL-MART AND HAVE FRIENDS THAN BE BRILLIANT WITH NO FRIENDS. AT THE SAME TIME I TOLD MY HUSBAND THAT IF OUR SON SAYS HE IS HAPPY NO MATTER IF HE HAS FRIENDS OR NOT ,THAT'S ALL THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME. unfortuntally, I think I expect to much from my son. I can't wait to until the day that he meets a girl that I hate. Until he goes off to college and gets married. etc. I sometimes worry that I expect to much out of him. I just can't allow myself to think that he won't make it in the outside world. I know that he will! I guess I see it differentally, because I have two older brothers that are slow. (that's how everyone see them) (I sometimes wonder if they have some form of autism) to late to find out now. Neither are married or have kids, but both live on their own. I also have a 19 year old nephew who is mental retarded, whose parents did nothing for him but throw him in school, and then he goes home and back to school. No knowledge of the world. My family drives me crazy with their comments, but when they compair my ds to my nephew, they say (at least when I'm arround) that I'm doing all the right things. I only hope that they are right. I worry what is going to happen to my ds after I'm gone. I Pray his life is going to be good to him. I hope someday there will be a cure for autism, or at least a prevention. I pray all our children will be able to function in the real world, or at least be accepted. Wishfull thinking I guess. I just have to stay possitive for my ds. hi I'm new to the forum and also very new to the spectrum. My son Liam is 2 years and 3 months old and has not as yet been fully diagnosed, the doctors are just deciding where on the spectrum he is. He has just started speech therapy only a week ago and today we had our first 'portage' visit. He is non-verbal at the moment and he gets extremely frustrated with his Daddy and myself if we don't understand what he wants, during a tantrum he gets violent towards myself which at the present time hurts a lot and upsets me as I'm 37 weeks pregnant. I know Liam doesn't mean it and later on comes to give me a kiss and cuddle, which is his way of saying he's sorry, bless him, just reading your post made me smile and lifted my spirits as I've sometimes thought it's somehow my fault or that I've been a bad mother to him, at least I know I'm not the only one that has a freakout LOL. Your post made me smile because I have also been wondering if he'll ever live a 'normal' life, I now really hate that word normal LOL, and if Liam will ever be able to make friends etc? When we were first referred I spoke to a couple of friends and they basically called Liam retarded and stupid, which of course upset me so I did some research with them so that I could prove that children on the spectrum are FAR from stupid or retarded as they called it and that he just slightly behind in certain aspects but very much advanced in others. Liam is highly intelligent and I'm not being biased because I'm his mum lol, his specialist even said he was highly intelligent, so it was a kind of a 'middle finger moment to my friends' for me LOL, they just didn't understand anything about the spectrum and assumed because Liam doesn't speak or play with his peers, as we all know the outside world is a mean and nasty place, where if something isn't understood that it's 'weird' or 'abnormal', that he is stupid but they are just being ignorant because they don't understand. The replies to your post give me hope and excitement for the years to come of helping him learn and cope with Liam's social and communicational skills and for that I thank you......this site is fantastic a huge help :o) if anyone is still reading this and would like to give me any advice or maybe if your child is of similar age, then please don't hesistate to reply LOL it would be great to speak to other parents :o) thanks again for reading. Take care Far out, just wrote you a reply but this site sometimes zones out on me ??Just wanted to say hi Liamsmum & welcome. My son is 2 1/2 and had many problems with frustrated communication before we taught him sign language & pecs. It may well decrease Liam's aggression if your ST can provide some tools for communication. Just wanted to add also, please don't be hard on yourself, it is not your fault that your son is the way he is. What is normal anyway ? I don't think anyone can call themselves normal, we are all individual just as our children are. Please don't let ignorant comments from friends (???) get in the way of loving your son & giving him the attention and help he needs. At a time like this you certainly find out who your true friends are. All the best Hi thanx for the reply kittykat :o), I couldnt care less about my ignorant friends LOL my sons happiness is what's most important. I love Liam with all my heart and soul,he's my sexy little man, if he didn't have his difficuties then he wouldn't be Liam, I couldn't wish for a more fantastic son!!! Yes we've spoken to ST and suggested pecs and they also think it's a good idea.I just want to find out as much as I possibly can so that I can help Liam. And as for the word 'normal' LOL yea that's what i say to people when they say it....define normal, it sometimes makes them think but the ignorant people just don't get it but who cares, not me LOL! I also wanted to ask if I should prepare myself for major tantrums when Liam's little sister is born, as she's due in the next weeks and I'm not all to sure how he's going to react as he's had me and my partner all to himself and gets jealous when we play with other children. For example one of my good friends brought her newborn baby around a couple of weeks ago and obviously being broody myself I wanted a hold etc, I got Liam to sit next to me while I held her and for a few minutes Liam was fantastic with her smiling at her and even gave her a kiss but the moment she started to cry he slapped her, which worries me a little. I know it's obviously going to take time for Liam to adjust to having a younger sibling but is there any specific ways of us helping him get used to it??? Thanks for reading and thanks for the welcome :o) Take care x You shouldn't worry too much. It sounds like you're doing a really great job keeping him involved and pushing him towards success. I am very likely on the spectrum. Everyone knows it, even my family doctor has said, but I haven't went to get an official dx. Why? Cuz I'm doing great for myself! As a kid I wouldn't have EVER walked onto a soccer field with other kids and surely wouldn't have enjoyed swimming or karate with other kids. I did do some things like girl scouts and dance classes but always felt very awkward and anxious about being there and never really had any friends. Even being around family makes me anxious. Point being, it sounds like maybe I was slightly worse than your son is now. I only say this because... I am now a 31 year old professional. Graduated college, bought my own home at 22 years old and am considered one of the best in my field (I'm a Cartographer / GIS Tech, a great field for Aspies BTW). I have succeeded to the top, have a family and have learned to manage my "issues" so most people can't notice. I still have some pretty intense sensory & OCD issues, still flap my hands and will hit my head when frustrated, have bad comprehension, even struggle with my speech when excited, I HATE eye contact and social events, I tend to be late for everything in order to avoid the social chit chat....but....I am a public speaker and do presentation for 500+ people. I don't enjoy it, but I know it's what will help me succeed. See, I believe my OCD issues are probably my double edge sword. On one hand, I count everything and obsess about certain subjects...BUT I also obsess about the goals I have set in my life. If I SAY I'll do something, by golly I will. All you can do is continue to support your child and know that no matter what he becomes you will still be proud of him. You will still love him. And if all goes well, he'll always appreciate what you've done for him. Remember it is believed that Bill Gates, Albert Einstien, even possibly George Washington and maybe others are believed to be on the spectrum. Just because your son struggles in areas doesn't mean he wont succeed. :o) Ok. I just realized that this was an original post from 2005. Now I feel silly. Sorry.[QUOTE=seniormint]Hello, everyone, I guess I am having one of my "moments" today and could use some re-assurance about my sons future. Junior Mint is 5 and 3 months, very high funcitoning PDD-NOS child. He will be in a mainstreem kindergarden in the fall and academically, he does very very well. He is verbal, laughs, is very active and has NO tantrums at all, he is as sweet as pie. We just got done the soccer season, he stuck it out, didn't do to much but run with the kids so I was kinda disapointed but realized that with his delays, I gotta deal with it. Now, in practice, he did great, the coach would even say how good he did and the while team really just ran around during the games except a few kids who did real well. (This is a lot of rambling but I am a but emotional now) So we spent the weekend in our pool and Junior is swimming pretty good with just the arm floats, not scared of water at all, doesn't jump in but still loves it, he will start a nice summer camp soon and have madatory swimming lessons each day, gymastics, golf and arts& crafts so I am hoping he does ok at the camp, it will be from 9-1 so a nice 1/2 day program, they are used to kids with all kinds of delays, kids that have none etc.. we did specify on the form about it and also talked with them and when we visited the camp, the director saw Junior and and how he was running up and down the playground ladders and said "wow, he is active and will do fine", I did trust him as he has said they have had kids with more severe autisim and the school Junior goes to is very familier to them, the pre-k program, plus I kinda know the guy. So really, he needs help with his social skills as he is very shy and still needs help interacting and the home tutor will be working on that this summer, she will even go to the camp some days to observe. I can play with him fine, I do see the delays but I also see his stongpoints like building things and him on the computer. At his IEP they showed us his chart of how much he has progressed and it was amazing, he is actually at the 6 year age mark for a lot of things, their are still some things like social interaction that he is a bit below but we get nothing but praises about him. He has been in Karate for over a year and is doing great, he listins and his body coordination is getting real good. I guess if you are still reading after that long post, thank you first, but second, what lies in my future ?? He is so close to being "Normal" if thats the right word but the autistic tendancies will just never go away. With a high functioning child like mine, will he have friends when he gets older ? Will he be able to do more things and be able to at least live close to a normal stile life or does it get worse ?? Sorry for the tone of my post, I am having a brainfart right now and I get kinda panicky about things like this and I figured "hey, tell it all on the message board as their are great people their" Does anyone have a high functioning PDD-NOS child who is able to interact ok and have at least some friends when they get older like 7,8 and 9 ??? I remeber when I was in school, their was kids without any delays that were just loners or didn't have friends because they were just that way but Junior Mint has these delays and crap, if it wasn't for them he would be even more outgoing and supreman! LOL I guess I want to here some success stories, I know how lucky I am and how much tougher it could be as a lot of kids are non-verbal, have tantrums etcc. All things that Junior doesn't so thats a big plus but still, being on the spectrum is tough. I am getting this guilt trip that its my fault he got this way, maybe because I partied in school ???? Drank beer when I was under 21 ??? I totally feel like its my fault and its eating away at my gut. Well, thats it, if you made it to read this full post, thank you... Just one of those days today. [/QUOTE] it was hard for me to read all of it as i have a learing disibilty an autism .he sound like he doing well .i wasnt hf till late teen early 20 what hard for me still is socilzing i have frienbd that are like me an nt friends that work with sped kids or understand autism .i cant have just nt friends they just dont get me think im weird or mr whatever .i try working for awhile but that was very diffuclt for me so i get disbilty an im an artist so i sell my art when i can .do some gust speaking .i still live at home im 43 years old alot of us do .my parent are looking into living situion .im somewhat indapent i can drive but limted enough to maker me happy .,but still need help with going to dr an stuff .sencorey iusse are bad for me that can send me into meltdpwn but as i got olderr i learn more appotre copping skills .i guss it dosde get better ,an he may be even hf then me as an adult were he hf already Hi Liamsmum - good for you in ignoring your friends and loving your son to bits. You sound like a fab Mum and lucky that Liam is your child - he is in the best place possible, a loving home.Sorry I can't say much about siblings as DS is our only child. Liam might just be requiring a lot of supervision around his little sister and being taught what behaviour is ok. Does he have a baby doll that he can practice on & get him used to the idea ? It is a tough one to prepare toddlers for a baby, maybe reading a book about it will help to plant the seed. All the best with the last few weeks of your pregnancy. Take care, Cheers Shandalyn......people are writing on this post still now, very popular subject.....your story is fantastic.....and yes when I had a tiny inclincling that Liam could have a social and communcation disorder....I said to my partner....'we could have the next Albert Einstein!'. We know he is a highly intelliegent little boy that will go very far in life i thats what he wants.....structure and routine is what he thrives on at the moment. And kittykat.....yea that sounds like a great idea....I don't know why we never thought of that with the doll, he has a babydoll and is always giving her kisses and cuddles, Kris, Liams dad had never seen him kiss his dolly til this morning, Liam would not have done this at all a couple of months ago, he wouldn't give anyone or anything affection apart from Kris and myself until then, now it's kisses for a select few.....especially females.....ladies' man already LOL! Liam has now had all his assessments, so now we have to wait for our appointment from a panel, so that we can discuss what their findings are, I just hope they hurry up....the uks medical network is rubbish.....it takes them 5 months to send a referral out....so who knows when Liam will actually be diagnosed, but what I do know about the British system is that if I bug them enough I'll get him in quicker.....persistance pays off lol......just as well im stubborn LOL!! Anyways thanks for reading again.....
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(im having these thoughts based on the stares we get) We all know to hope for best, push hard, no limits, focus on what they are best at. But does anyone have a much older kid or adult in family with pdd-nos or like that has been somewhat successful in their social life. Will my son ever have a girl friend? (ok I know Im being silly, but I cant help but think it) I will shut up now!!
take care everyone, I welcome anymore replies