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How about raspberry ripple flavor crisp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3-EFN2Eohc

No but I like smoky bacon flavored ice cream!

Lets hope that there is something left when its time to give it back.

Apparently some were fitted with engines that were originally intended for a different modal of car. There appeared to be no record of this in the parts list, it was only the experience of mechanics finding bits didn't fit. When you got parts you had to say to the parts people that it had the non standard engine or you got the wrong parts, certain bits had to be those intended for this other modal. "Fred" in the back room would say "I know the bit you need". "Your need an oil filter from a xyz for that." Back then when you didn't need a degree in computer science to fix cars, I did a lot of taking apart and putting back together.

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We intended to have at least another child after my son but due to my wife's health that never happened. And were he has two older siblings 10 and 12 years older, (from my wife's first marriage) its not the same. I remember as a child, there were 5 of us, tagging along with my older brother, probably without him I would not have been so adventurous. Also being protective of my younger sister which probably made me bolder than I realy was. There was always someone there to play with, or fight with. Never on your own. The only time you were alone was when on the toilet. :lol: But I'm going a bit astray now. Do I blame myself? well I suppose deep down I do. To a degree I blame myself for not realising/recognising the was anything wrong earlier. The genes we pass on to our children, we inherited from our parents. Our children are a mix of generations of genetic input. We all have 8 Great Grandparents, 16 GG grandparent, 32 GGG grandparents, and so on. Each one of them contributes part of their DNT to us.

No antibiotics taste like winter mixture.

I have an allegro for a few years, the one with the square steering wheel. It was a 1750cc 5 speed box. If you needed spare parts for the engine you had to make sure you got the right ones as it apparently was fitted (from new) with the "Wrong" engine.

Any thing with a strong flavor. I can remember when at primary school, walking to school with my little sister, We walked best part of 2 miles to school (On our own). Calling in at the sweet shop and getting 2 ounces of winter mixer, in recollection it seems ever day but I don't suppose it was.

I work nights so my working day starts at 10pm. was working last night. I got in a just gone 7am, had breakfast, went to bed, and got up at 3.30 pm. I am working tonight. Problem I have is when I have nights off. Don't want to spend all day in bed so tend not to go to bed when I get in, not untill early evening the have a long night in bed, then get up at 7.30am. (If its a school day). And if I'm working that night i just stay up, so by the time I get back to bed I will have been up for over 24 hours. In effect I completely miss out a nights sleep. And on school days I don't go to bed untill about 9.30am after Iv taken my son to school and have to be up at 3pm to meet him from school. I go to work while he is in bed and go to sleep when he is at school. (apart from weekend, I work alternative week end). To be honest most of the time I'm so tired I just need to shut my eye for a few seconds and I'm asleep, any time of the night or day. It not good for my I know, but at the moment, I just cant find a job that fits in any better. Only 8 years to go and I get my pension, that is as long as the government doesn't move the goal post again.

The Internet has mad every thing so instant. Back when I was in my 20s/30s, in an attempt to improve my reading and writing skills, and of course to get to know new people I answered a few adds in a pen pal mag. The letters were send to a PO box for forwarding on so you never had their address untill they volunteered it. The people live some distance away, even abroad, so no real chance of ever meeting. After corresponding for a few years, I plucked up the courage to speak on the phone to one, after about 6 month of occasional speaking on the phone, despite living about 250 miles apart, we agreed to meet up for coffee. About 5 years later we got marred. Its a good job motoring was cheaper in them days as I clocked up 1000s of miles visiting my now wife.

Its on our council's own web site telling me I can request a carers assessment. Other than storming the council office, the only way to contact them is this number, when you phone you are asked for your details. "Are yes, you phones us on xxx and we said zzz. has anything changed" well no thing are the same, meaning its just as bad, "Well in that case its unlikely we can help but Ill put your request forward for consideration". You are tempted to tell a few porkies, but that may backfire.

That is more or less what we get told. Your get told you can ask for this that and the other, well you can ask for it but getting it is another thing altogether. We never get past the telephone interview, "Will pass you details on to the manager for consideration". "Sorry cant help, have you done X,Y,Z" and that's about it. I don't blame the individuals, its the system, they tell us that there is all this support etc out there, when in fact there is very little and most parent of disabled children just have to get on with it on their own. As long as we are muddling by we can get on with it, never mind the quality of life for both parents and children. Like all these things the general public think, because of what they read/hear that every thing is rosy, its only when you become part of the system you realise how bad things realy are, how little support their realy is.

From a personal point of view, don't have much experience other than speaking on phone, yes your on our list, no nothing we can do for you. From a work point of view, they have been quite helpful to so of the resident. Many years ago wife use to work as a clerical working in SS. The stories she could tell you, well if it wasn't for confidentiality. When I worked with children I have some contact with SS, Sometime hosting/supervising parental contact sessions, the middleman between SS and hostile parents. These children and babies, SS realy had no option than to take them into care.

A Perfect day? Going to the tramway museum, arriving as they opened and being the last to leave and not being moaned at once, that was a perfect day. Getting the old bath and toilet out, altering all the pluming and getting the new bath and toilet in their new positions and working before bedtime, that was a perfect day. Reassembling the engine of my old van, putting it back in and it starting at the first go, that was a perfect day. My son coming out of school with a smile on his face, there all perfect days.

I work with adults with ASD. I got the job with no experience, other than having a son who was then 9 with ASD. I have amongst other things worked in the past with young children and babies, and homeless teenagers. I have realy learnt on the job doing training of all sorts. The company offer us training up to level 3, if we want it, and opportunities to seek promotion into management, with the necessary training. I am assuming you are just starting out. I think you would need to get some general experience working with children first before specialising in special needs. What sort of job do you envisage doing? What age group? And working at what level? For example a special needs classroom assistant.

When I learnt to drive you had to have a man walking from with a red flag. Well maybe not but you were restricted to a max speed of 30 untill you had past your test. I had about 20 lessons, on the day of the test someone who I had never met, with a car I had never driven turned up from the driving school. I failed. I put in strait away for a sort notice test, got one about 12 days later. I didn't have anymore lessons and took the test in my own car. in a area I had never driven in before. I was due to go on a driving holiday about 3 weeks later. So not a lot of pressure. I past. The first thing I did was go for a long drive down the duel carriageway, Not many motorways about then, It was only then that I found out how long it takes to stop when going at speed. In them days few cars had power brakes or power steering. It wasn't long before my dad let me drive his Zephyr 6 A monster of a car that would do well over 100, weighing in at 2 tones. Never got stopped by the police, they couldn't keep up.

Know the feeling. My son now will go quiet if there is anyone within ear shot. If we look back at photos of my son you realise that he is never smiling. Always had a worried look on his face.

Not liking change. Just add that my son appeared to be fighting against being born, and ended up being delivered by emergency cesarean.(He was very active before he was born so my wife will tell you) He never liked being held or cuddled, (from birth), would resist anything he didn't want with tremendous force for a new born. Still does. Would never keep the cover on him in his cot, managed to clime out of his pram when only a few weeks old. Has always sort out my company in preference to his mothers. From a few months old would get tremendously upset if left with anyone. Never sort out the company of other children. Other than speech delay developed normally, by the time he started school his speech was normal or maybe advanced. He has always been able (From school age ) to hold a conversation with adults he knows but with anyone he doesn't he just clams up and says nothing (Doctors, shopkeepers, etc). He had problems reading to start with but when he was about 6 the school went over to teaching Phonics and from that point he just got the hang of it and is now seldom without a book in his hand. He has a poor memory for some things but often astounds us by what he does remember. His problems at school are now, apart from social anxiety and all that that brings, staying focused on what he is supposed to be doing, taking in what is going on around him (What the teacher is saying) and hand writing. (And PE, but the teacher says that he realy tries and is at times proud of his efforts). My son is now 2 weeks short of being 12.

One piece of research I was reading about says that up to 300 different gene are involved in Autism, this explaining why it affects different people in such different ways. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10275332 http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/gene-trawl-shows-clues-but-also-complexity-in-autism http://www.fiercebiomarkers.com/story/faulty-genes-may-trigger-early-autistic-brain-growth/2012-03-28 Just added 2 more links, there are many different articles out there about gene research.

If you remember that when home educating a child you are only expected to give them an education as good as the minimum they would have expected to have had if in full time school, then that's not setting the bar to high. As I said earlier, I am not a fan of HE but if a child is achieving nothing at school getting nothing out of school and if school is detrimental to their well being then it cant be any worse. I would not be a very good Home educator as I'm not disciplined enough. I do educate my son at home, For example, I let the school take the credit for his knowledge of science but I know its what he has learnt off me. (And taught himself out of books)

. "It means that in England by 2013, all pupils will have to stay in education or training until the end of the school year in which they turn 17. By 2015, this leaving age will be raised to the 18th birthday" From BBC news. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7080699.stm

In my experience, both from a personal and professional point of view it most certainly does run in families.

After he started school and was not doing that to well and the professionals started talking about Autism, up untill that point it had not dawned on me (us) that his "funny" ways were anything more than taking after me. What I'm like. At that point I know absolutely nothing about Autism. From what I now know I realise that my father most probably had Autism, and me, well as I said my son was/is just like I was at that age. Only he has more sever social anxiety than I have/ remember having. With hind sight we realise that his Autism affected him from the day he was born. So in answer to the OP, no, our son was born with Autism. He is now as he has always been.

As always Sally makes so good pints, I don't have much to add. As the law stands at the moment compulsory education is from the age of 5, the term following their fifth birthday, until 16, the last Friday in June in the school year that they reach the age of 16.(So a child with a birthday in July or August would still by 15 when they could finish school) There is a lot of talk about 18, but at the moment, were as education is available it is not compulsory, and benefits don't start for them untill 18, but end for you when they leave school. The child does not have to attend school, the requirement is that they receive an education. I am not an advocate of home education but a lot of parents go down that root. I would never be happy physically dragging a child into school. Perhaps I'm lucky in that my son (and step children) has always accepted going to school as something he had to do, and at the present time is positively enjoying it most of the time. So I have no experience of school refusal.