IAmNotPrinceHamlet

If you think that's a great read, watch the end of the game! Here's a link to the actual game and CBS report on Jason, including interviews with the lad: http://www.youtube.com/w/Autistic-basketba...&page=1&t=t&f=b

As a parent of an AS son and having AS myself, I guess the answer should be yes. However, I did not find out that I had AS until after my son was diagnosed. I had a seriously bad time at school, but they didn't have a nice label to attach to me at the time. Had I known that I had AS before I fell pregnant with my son, would I still have chosen to have a child? Yes. I won't have any more, though. It's hard enough raising one child with AS when you have AS yourself, let alone raise two. The chances of me having a child without AS are virtually zero, as my partner also has AS. My father also has AS. My stress levels are at an all time high, by the way.

Oh, I didn't know about Dan Aykroyd! Having read Sellers' son's book on his father, I don't think Sellers was an Aspie (Bi-polar, maybe). I've also read the Kenneth Williams diaries and have got to say that I don't think he was an Aspie. Someone else has already posted about Williams' sexual repression and inability to accept himself for what he really was. Personally, I agree that Williams' problems were probably brought about by his denial of who he really was. As an Aspie, I can't see AS in Williams.

Same here, Tally. I'm an Aspie, but I own my own home (almost paid off the mortgage), I'm self-employed and I am a mother of an Aspie son. Like Ceecee, my behaviour does lapse when I am stressed or tired. It's taken me most of my life to learn how to act in a semi-normal way. I get away with people thinking I'm just eccentric now. I'm also a good actress - I mirror, which helps a lot.

She's not a medical doctor, by the way. She has a doctorate in Physiology.

Check out the following transcript. This is what Dr. Laura said about a 12 year old lad with Tourette's: (LS = Dr. Laura, M = Michelle, a caller) This thread makes interesting reading on the issue: http://p082.ezboard.com/ftourettesyndromen...opicID=14.topic

You can still contact Dr. Laura. She has her own website: http://www.drlaura.com/main/

www.dictionary.com is your friend.

Everyone feels different, that's why. I could ask if I'm the only one who feels like a goldfish swimming in a bowl. I doubt many people would say no. (No, I don't feel like a goldfish.)

Personally, I prefer eccentric and different to cool. Idiosyncratic works, too. Cool is so uncool.

Viper, I think he's asking Tyler's Mum to remove the quote from her post, as she quoted his now-edited post. I could be wrong, though.

Possibly?

Hello new mods - congrats. Hello old mods - keep up the good work.

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Thing is, we all mature at different speeds. My son is 10 and acts like a 4 year old at times. When I was a teenager, I certainly didn't act like it. In fact, I'd say I wasn't ready when puberty hit me. What did your dad do? My dad used to whack me. I used to get blamed for things I hadn't done all the time, too (youngest of 5 kids). I HATE people accusing me of things I haven't done. If I've done it, I will admit to it. Don't accuse me. Truth is very important to me. I am a truthful person. Don't ever accuse me of lying - you won't like the reaction. Never lie to me, as I hate liars more than anything else in the world. Having an excellent memory for conversations, I will and do catch people out in lies. Anyway...I digress. I had this a lot as a kid and as a teenager. People didn't understand me, so they came up with their own excuses as to why I was behaving and acting in the way I was. They were wrong. People blamed me because I was easy to blame. I got punished for things other people had done. My siblings were all older than me, which meant I was more niave than them. This lead to me always getting the blame for things they'd done. Heh - I chased my sister around the house with a knife when I was 13 - meltdown time! Ed Psychs were called - couldn't work out what was wrong with me. The whole family got put into family therapy, but my dad pulled us all out when the psychiatrist started suggesting that he was too Victorian and that he was causing a lot of upheavel in our house. He has a very bad temper, my dad. He would erupt over stupid stuff - peas cold on his dinner plate = throw plate and dinner against the wall. My dad is more than likely an Aspie too, by the way. He hasn't been diagnosed, but he hits home on all three of the triad of impairments. His mouth does not know when to stop. He jokes, but goes far too far. He doesn't realise he is offending people. If you had met my dad, you'd see just how bad he is. He has OCD, to boot. You should see the amount of times he washes his hands, and how he scrubs the bathroom. Now he's retired, he washes up 15 times a day and spend the rest of his time online! School was a nightmare for me. I tried killing myself twice at school. How did I cope? I didn't. That's why even now I say that I am psychologically damaged as a result of my teenage years. You do learn from them, though. If all the hurt, anger and loneliness doesn't kill you, you do learn to just be yourself and sod the rest of them! Oh, as for my mum, I used to hate her and love her at the same time. She wasn't what I felt she should be. I was more intelligent than her, which hurt. I couldn't talk to her on my level. She didn't dress in the way I wanted my mother to dress. (I know how bad I sound, by the way - I'm ashamed of myself for this). She didn't stand up for herself or us when my dad was raging. If I'm totally honest, I looked down on her. These feelings grew as I hit puberty. Obviously, it's different now. During my teenage years, I would lock myself in my room as soon as I got home from school. I would not socialize with any members of my family. I couldn't. I stayed in my room occupying myself with my maps of the LU and music.