mugglemum

great link - thankyou

My son (aged 9 and newly diagnosed AS) used to wave his arms around it circles when he was anxious - he paced up and down swinging his arms and was distressed if he couldnt. Now he does a funny thing with his hands instead - we never stopped him swinging his arms it just changed to something else and is so much more manageable. In terms of physical things - he cannot use a knife and fork, cannot skip, cannot ride a bike, was struggling with swimming although with one to one lessons this has improved. We have just got a diagnosis and I am going into school on Friday to speak to SENCO for the first time - all new, scary and challenging but great that people are finally recognising what I have seen for years

My son aged 9 did his last year. He was prepared at school - catholic school so whole class did the preparation whether catholic or not. At the time he was calm and seemed very accepting of the whole thing, very few questions and seemed to enjoy the day. Not long after he started totally doubting his faith and decided he did not even believe in God. He became very distressed and wouldnt say why and it took ages to get out of him what he was worrying about. We explained that we cannot give him faith it has to come from within, and also that we were not cross with him for not believing and would not 'make' him believe. This was a year ago - he has now decided he might want to be a priest