Jump to content

Cariad1

Members
  • Content Count

    5
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About Cariad1

  • Rank
    Norfolk Broads

Contact Methods

  • Website URL
    http://
  • ICQ
    0

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Female
  1. IPSEA are a very good support organisation. I would contact your local NAS ( National Autistic Society) group and see if they can help and advise you. The NAS have been excellent in help me with my grown up son.
  2. Cariad1

    Hellooooo

    Hi there, Cariad means Loved one. Yes my son goes to to the pub but doesn't seem to notice his clothes are stained or his hair is very greasy and his teeth are all dirty. He resents me telling him that he needs to change his t shirt or wash his hair, but if I don't remind him he starts to look like a tramp. He wants a girlfriend and eeven telling him he need to look clean and smart to get one doesn't seem to work. gundy
  3. I have three children with special needs. There is a lot of joy as well as the heartache. You may find this helpful. I found this passae and it helped me a lot. Its well worth reding. Welcome to Holland" I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this: When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pa 5 months ago And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss. But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland. <'>
  4. Cariad1

    Hellooooo

    Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum. I have a son who was diagnosed as Aspergers about 3 years ago. He was 24 at the time. I have been on several talks about Aspergers and learned a few strategies to help him organise himself and to finish what he started. .I've tried to help my son with these things but he resists all attempts to help him so he still struggles with some of the basics like personal hygiene. How do you get through to someone who has only been diagnosed as an adult?
×
×
  • Create New...