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  1. My ds stayed as invisible as possible in the school. He learnt how to fudge enquiries and requests and appear compliant whilst actually not giving anything. The staff didn't see him because he didn't want to be seen. But the moment he got out of the school door he went nuts. Meltdowns twice a day, miserable, unco-operative, obsessive to the nth degree, didn't want to know anyone or anything for at least two hours after school, then had nightmares all night. School didn;t want to know. No statement, no help, nothing. I eventually decided to HE, and its the best thing I ever did. He hasn't had a full meltdown since the day I de-regged him, and his confidence grows every day.
  2. You're not a cr*p mum. You need help and reassurance. Not the kind of inhumane grief that we get at the GPs. Try to get to the meeting on Thursday?
  3. Hurrah! If you have the information, you can make a choice. And many of us have, it seems. I feel grateful to have been able to speak out on behalf of my child and others with ASD before the F.L's ridicule, demonize and silence us.
  4. After conferring with some friends and colleagues on ASD forums, I have only this to add: That "frothing loon" in the corner may well be the one who voices the "concerns" that results in your life being turned upside down. History has elevated quite a few frothing loons to prominence. And there are still some in high places, determined to drag everyone round to their way of thinking. I believe in having the freedom to make an informed decision. If I choose to bury my head in the sand and stick my feathered bottom in the air, then I should not be surprised if I "come a cropper". If these offensive terms were applied racially, there would be hell to pay.
  5. Whilst I appreciate that this in an opinion forum, it is an opinion forum run under the TES banner, and this organisation is frequented by people in loco parentis of children. Ergo, responsible for children, teaching them, guiding them. I fortunately Home Educate my ASD child. I have met people like this. Whilst it is useful to bear in mind that prejudice infiltrates all sections of society, my own preference is that I know if the people who influence my children are prejudiced. I would not encourage anyone to misuse the group name in any way, I am confident that the majority of parents of children with ASD (And adults with AS/ASD) are able to make up their own minds on how they feel. If it is cotentious to warn of dangerous bias being circulated amongst the profession, then I am proudly subsersive. Isolated dangers do not make them less dangerous.
  6. Eeh! What am I like!!! http://tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread....=1&messagePage1 Hope this is better for you.
  7. Discovered this revolting thread. Please note the professions. Houston, we have a problem... www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=2101427&path=/opinion/&threadPage=1&messagePage1
  8. Coffee morning? One only has to mention it and the urge to bake goodies comes over me... Might even bring my own t.bags.
  9. Hi Jo, I'm Julie, I live in Washington too. Have a 6 year old ds with ASD/AS. We are part of a Home Edding Group for ASD kids and meet in Washington every week. If you'd like to come along you're very welcome. If you fancy a grumble or two, we're always around! Welcome on board.
  10. <'> <'> <'> After two and a half long years fighting for statutory assessment for my ASD ds., then going through the appeal process to come out with nothing except the headmistress's promise (with caveat) of "we will undertake to give him a bit extra 1:1 - as long as WE think he needs it. In other words, they'd decide on the way out of the appeal that he didn'e need it ... I digress....I took my ds out of the rotten system that was causing us all grief. I opted to HE. He's happier, the whole family now has a loving little lad at home instead of the screaming, lashing, incontinent, sleepless meltdown merchant we had while he was in the school. It works for us. I simply got sick of fighting, it only invited further persecution in our borough. I feel for you, I really do. Dont let them win. You know your child best.
  11. Thanks. I need someone with expertise in ASD to assess whether my diagnosed ds is suffering because I Home educate him. Also need a specialist report on the importance of consistency, effects of hypersensitivities on kids and how a crowded open plan school could affect an ASD/AS kid. My ex (who works for Social Services and is also part of a stage two complaint against same) has decided to drag and gag me via the family courts because he got found out manipulating co-workers and illegally accessing our files to terrorise us. Lovely man. So now he is using the HE as a specific issue to try to gag me and simultaneously continue to mentally batter us. Have had xxxx offered as the expert, need to figure if she'e the best person for the job. Thanks all.
  12. Does anyone out there have any direct experience of xxxxx? I am currently considering utilising the servies of same for a court-ordered assessment of my HFA/AS ds who is being home educated. Schools & LEA failed him, but someone wants to force him back into school.
  13. Hello all. My ds is obsessed with buses. Luckily the local depots are impressed with his encyclopaedic knowledge and invite him for tours of the depots, garages and indulge him. He can tell you what make of bus it is just by the engine sound. He is also well into escalators, and again, is well up on the makes and models, woe betide any engineers working on them, he has to stop to see what's going on. He loves comedy noises (the kind you get in seventies cartoons). Fears ... corridors. Not knowing the exact route to exits. Too many doors. The wind (weather version). It drives him nuts. Try telling him you can't change the weather. He just doesn't get it. On windy days, we might as well stay home. Oh, here's a classic, the smell of peppermint and boiled onions. It's hell trying to get past a hot dog stand.
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