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    this is brill and i would read it i love the way you have start this book off, :thumbs:

     

    Hello everyone, i have been writing an autobiography about my life with autism and hope it would raise awareness and also show u how i perceive autism in my own little world. I hope you enjoy, i have spoken to NAS and they will look for publishers when im half way through my book but i only done 8 or 9 pages of chapters so im going to keep writing until there is enough. I been writing since January 2009. Any way my old teaching assistant has seen my draft copy the whole lot of it and thinks its great loved how i ordered and stuff, and she thinks it should be published and she would like a signed copy if it reaches store.

     

    A Day In The Life Of An Autistic Girl

     

     

    My name is Kirsty and I am officially diagnosed with Autism at age 14 years old.

     

    I decided to create a book about my life living with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder and my grown up world.

    The aim of this book is to create more awareness and understanding of what it is like to have an Autistic Spectrum Disorder and that they wish to succeed in an Independent life.

     

    By writing this autobiography, I hope it would inspire Professionals, Families, Carers, Friends and the Child/Adult with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I also hope that it would help people to understand the world of our ASD in our own individual way, and that we need some support in some areas of our lifes.

     

    I feel that there is a lack of understanding about ASD’s, because some people perceive us being a bad person, we are not; we just have difficulties in some areas of our lives and need support to help us through the difficulties.

     

    Sometimes people don’t know how to talk to us and may say things that we don’t understand and we need things said to us in a clear and simple way so that we can understand.

     

    How I View Autistic Spectrum Disorder

     

    Autism is a developmental disability which affects how we think and communicate in our lives.

    I actually like to think that ASD’s is a special gift that we have because we may have difficulty in some areas but may be good in other areas. Like I have knowledge about Dolphin’s and able to teach it to others that people didn’t know about.

     

    There is Autism and there is Aspergers which is a form of autism.

     

    They might get diagnosed with Aspergers at there late teenage years or as adults this is because people grow up as children and not been recognized and not show the signs until later in life.

     

    I am about to discuss the 3 main areas we can have trouble with there is a long list so I will list 2 or 3 examples in each of the 3 main areas.

     

    SOCIAL COMMUNICATION:

    May not understand expressions.

    May take things said literally.

    Find it difficult to start a conversation.

    SOCIAL INTERACTION

    Find it difficult to make and keep friends.

    Find it hard to make eye contact; it can be distressing.

    May not understand how people feel.

    IMAGINATION

    Gets distressed when routine changes (unexpected change)

    May talk about there obsession a lot, this may be they want to communicate but find it difficult.

    Find it difficult to understand how other people feel

     

    You can develop other disabilities such as:

    Dyspraxia: Coordination problems

    Dyslexia: Getting words back to front

    ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)

    ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)

     

    These are common among people with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder

     

    Early Diagnosis

    At age 4 years old i was diagnosed with Learning Difficulties and a Speech delay.

     

    I needed a lot of help to communicate by speech, as I were delayed. I could say a word and point at it but couldn’t speak sentences.

    I also had difficulty understanding the concept of stories.

     

    At age 9, I were diagnosed with Dyspraxia. That explained why I were falling over the time and still do. I also have difficulty with balance.

     

    I were referred to an Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist.

     

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    i think by i get back to college i will have had about 8-9 weeks off boring!!!!! even worse when you cannot see what you can and not do, dont like new things often, when i have to go by myself, i love to read, dont have any friends so my days can be realy boring and a lot of it by myself,

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    I have a bus pass and somebody can go with me and use it for 2 people family or friend, it can be of help and it was not easy to get it sign the doctor did not sign it right and so we took it back and she sign it again and when we took it to the officers where we live that gave me the pass.

     

    it so hard to get what we need doctors dont now us day in day out

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    hi,

     

    ok, i have a support work, that comes every week,

    he doing my head in :wallbash::crying: he makes

    me so mad and upset me big time

    then i end up shuting when i am talking

     

    i have disablit like we all do here,

     

    I am visual impaired

    Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)

    Retinal detachment

    Dry eye

    Cataracts

    all to do with my eyes,

     

    I have hydrocephalus ( Water on the brain)

    I have Moderate Learning Difficulties

    I have migraines very often,

    epilepsy

    As signs

     

    Why do support work of any kind think they no

    you when they dont!!!!

     

    well a few weeks ago we where talking and

    he start saying stuff that i did not understand

    and he was doing my head in!!!! he said i was beeing

    argumentative!!!

     

    we where fillling in fourms came to my

    disablity,

     

    i have all the prolims what you can read on here,

    he said about my learning diffcutes the doctors now

    i have learning diffcuites mum and all my family now

    too and my best friends does, well he came out

    and said, do you have a learning diffcuite " i said yes"

    he came out and said well i dont think you do

    i'm not a doctor

     

    then i stared getting upset and angar he saying

    i dont have something when i do

    i went to a speill need school where we all had

    learning disablity of some kind, disablitys.

     

    as i have learn over years and see and heard

    about how we cope we get to understand

    that we can do some things and we have

    good days and bad days and

    thats was a bad today for me

     

    but i cannot get my head around why somebody

    would say that

    when i was saying what my disablity are!

     

    what wold you all do, like this week i start tall him things

     

    i could not do one of them where,

    1. colour i find now what is light and dark is!? becouse of my learning disablitys

    he chaged me way of saying it "why would somebody say do that"

     

    what would you do,

     

    here done other things as well and siad things,

     

    thanks take care

    caroline

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    yes very often,

    if somebody says something not very nice that can upset me, i can get angar very easy when i dont understand things or people just dong understand me at all, so i often can wake up in bad moord and dont now why,

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    DLA is there to help with transport and getting around, and caree or what every it is i maybe some kind of quitement to help you use a computer, just anything you need to make your life easy! i had DLA sence i was i thik about 8, but only had it in my name for about 1year now, i oftern have by things like "eg so i can tell the time "a talking watch"

     

    if you now your son disabled and you have prefor for that, you can show them yes he has a disabllity and need help,

     

    take care caz

     

     

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