katie123

I know where your coming from, I do sound abit hard on him, What you have written is very intresting, but my son does have mild autism, we dont just say "no, you cant have that" end off!, we would always explain why that couldnt happen etc, I really believe its helped him us being firm, he can now drink out different cups and never asks for his "yellow" one, he's getting on well at school (they are also very firm with him), but I understand this wouldnt work for a lot of kids.

Hello Dee. My son who has mild autism has done most of the things you mention at some point or another, He used to insist on going certin ways in the car or out walking, still has to have a "yellow" drinking cup, has to have his bears arranged in a certin way on his bed etc etc, he is also great at role play and has delayed speech, right now he wants to ware his "doctor who" jumper to school and asks every morning. I found the best way to deal with him is never giving in to him EVER!, its hard cause he does go crazy sometimes but I try just to ignore him, its made a big differance he knows he can kick off all he likes but still wont get what he wants.

My autistic son had a lazy eye when he was a baby but it seem's to have corrected it's self, he is very long sighted in one eye and the other is fine, my daughter has a squint when she gets very tired but she keeps it under control most of the time!.

I dont think mmr caused my sons Autism, and I was happy to let my younger daughter have it, If I think back to even when he was a tiny baby he was always a bit different, would only eat certin foods and was very quite.

Hello. My little boy (nearly 6) also has high functioning autism and attends main stream school with support, I am very happy with how he has came on since he started in p1.

66% still living with parents and only 12% in full time employment, that makes me worry about things tbh

My brother and Dad both have mild Autism as does my son, the hospital wanted to do some sort of blood test on my brother and son to see if there was a genetic link, I've never got round to getting it done though, I have 6 brothers and sisters and we are all fine (sort off!), and a son and daughter who are not affected.

Hello I am new here!. I just thought I would post to tell everyone about my little boy who at 3 years old could not talk, had terrible tantrams and still wore nappies we where told he was autistic, I knew very little about this condition and to be honest I think we stuck our head in the sand, the way he acted ruled our world, we also have a older son and I found myself grieving for the fact the younger one could not do the things his older brother could do at that age. Anyway fast forward 3 years and we now have a chatty little boy who attends mainstream school (with a little support) has many friends and is a joy to have around!. Dont get me wrong his speech is not great but it improves all the time, he does still find it a bit difficult when things dont go quite his way but we find being very strict with him helps loads, he is doing well at school and is keeping up with the rest of the class. He is autistic but he's coping. If someone had told me he would get to this stage it would have saved us a lot of worry, I know all autistic children are different and we have been very lucky that things have turned out this way but our little boy was given a pretty grim outlook infact his doctor told me we would be lucky if he was independent when he grew up!. I just want anyone going through what we went through to know that there is hope and some children do improve.