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Amber

Hi,

My name is Lisa and I am the mom of a five (soon to be six) year old with Aspergers. He was diagnosed a little over a year ago.

He is our only child, so we were slower than I like to recall in noticing his differences. His preschool teacher approached me when he was four about problems with peer interaction and strage interests (at the time flags and The Wiggles), thank goodness that has passed.

I spent the last year in kind of a frenzy getting him the right kind of help and coming to terms with his diagnosis. For me that label seemed to create a huge gap between the life we envisioned for him and reality. Life has changed and so has my perspective, but a year into this I am much more able to celebrate and embrace my son. I feel strong enough to have dreams and hopes for him, and I am incredibly proud of him. Autism has changed my marriage, my friendships, and my relationship with God. The label forced me to reevaluate my priorities and face things that were incredibly frightening. I do feel though that most days I am moving beyond the grief of the loss of past dreams and into the every day wonders I have with my son.

Today Conner is doing quite well. His biggest deficits are in fine motor skills and emotional regulation. His main interest now is music. He has a large collection of CD'S and loves to get into mine and his dad's as well. We talk about music a lot at our house. Most days I need to tell him I simply cannot talk about music anymore

He will be in a regular kindergarten class this fall and will get pullout services for speech, OT, and PT. He will also have an inclusion facilitator in the room to assist him during more academic times. We do a floortime intervention at home and also do OT and social skills classes on the side.

I am happy to be here and eager to learn all of your stories.Welcome to the board connersmom1, It full of great people who are care and understand and are willing to listen and offer support, hope and encouragement!

Lisa,

Welcome! It sounds as if your guy is doing GREAT!!!! A music lover huh!?! Maybe a future great composer or musician!!!! I understand what you mean about the total reevaluation. I went through a very, verydark time when my son was dx with autism and cognitive delay (02/17/04). I grieved and mourned for what I had dreamed and planned (even though now I see that I did not consult my child as to if Nt or ASD- he would like to do and be).....Sometimes I still grieve and sometimes I panic about the future. Thats where my support boards help, no one understands like someone who is in this boat named special needs.....

I was 43 when my DS was born,he is my only child. I was told at about 20 that I would NEVER have children without exstensive fertility treatments. DH and I had been married 26 years when I came home and told him what the 'change of life' specialist told me when I was sent for the consulatation. Well, I told him, I have good news and better news!LOL!!!!!!

Welcome to a really great place with really great people :)

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Hope you all have a great day

Welcome!  I am right where you started.  In the process of getting evals, etc...  Looks like preschool intervention is not far away, YEAH!

My ds is an only child also and we had him in our early 40's so we also had no others to compare him too.  His preschool teacher brought it to the table.  I guess I knew something was wrong but....

Well welcome here, it's a great place!

 

 

Welcome!

Through this board you will find not only tons of information, but also people who "truly" understand what you are going through.  Although I am a "newbie" myself, the people here are wonderful!  It is sooo nice to come to a place where people support you..advise you...OR just listen.  It is like this place doesn't ONLY give you support when you are having a bad day, but also there with you in your triumphs as well.  Hope you find "this" place is for you, too,  so you don't hafta feel all alone.  connorsmom1 welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am still a newbie to this site, but it is the BEST support i have found. alot of nice people who really care and are not afraid to share ideas and i feel so supported by everyone here. keep us posted on how things are going. sherrydakota'smom 3 mildcp and asd, christa 22, elijah 16

Big Welcomes to you Connersmom1,It's nice to hear that Conner is doing well and that you have things in place for him. pat yourself on the back. Great job. I hope you will fine that you'll have a second family here as I did. These people are wonderful here. Take Care and hope to here from you again real soon.mom2carlo

Btw, I have Carlo 5 pdd-nos,seizures and adhd, cp and big brown golf ball size eyes.

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