Membership Poll

[Kris]

Just a small poll so get an overview of how our members are involved with ASD's.

 

Please take a second to answer this poll

 

Thanks,

 

Kris

[Jericho]

I've voted as "Parent of ASD person" but would also fit the category of "Wife of an ASD spouse" and almost certainly "Sister to an ASD person".

 

I know, I know. There's always someone who has to make Ban-Man's life more complicated!

[Kris]

<I give up!!!!>

 

[niki]

I am mother of asd person, sister of asd person, auntie of asd person and daughter of asd person, ( we must have funny genes!)

[Helen]

I am a mother to an ASD person, I am a spouse to an ASD person, I am a daughter to an ASD person, I am a daughter-in-law to an ASD person and I am a sister-in-law to two ASD people.....

 

I need a drink!

 

Helen

[Kris]

I need a drink!

Oh god... So do I

[baddad]

Father, uncle, son, brother, sister(????) and, possibly, self. Oh, and my milkman's a strange beggar too!

seriously, 2 definites and 2 maybe's in above. and some adhd too!

[nellie]

Kris

 

The poll is a great idea. Well done.

 

Like some of the others, I tick most of the boxes.

 

Nellie.

[Jester]

Hi guys

 

Ooh! Ooh! no-one's done 'stepdad' yet?! I'll have that one !

 

(Went for 'other family member')

 

regards

 

Jester

Edited July 27, 2004 by Jester

[pookie170]

Well, if we're all gonna be different, I think I should point out that the vote options are lacking again.....

I am mother of ASD person and (wait for it!!)

ex-partner/common law wife of an ASD person too!! (Possibly daughter of one an' all!!)

And then there's my brother, who just defies any explanation at all!!

We're a complicated, hard-to-please lot, aren't we, Kris?

Anyway, good idea, Kris!

Esther x

[Kris]

We're a complicated, hard-to-please lot, aren't we, Kris?

Theres no pleasing some people

[Jericho]

And would an Aspie next-door neighbour count as "friend of the family" or an entirely different category?

 

Sorry, Kris!

[Kris]

[pookie170]

!!!!

 

Awwwww!!!

 

<'> <'> <'>

Esther x

hee hee hee!!!

[Jericho]

He's a very nice neighbour. It's just that he has some 'odd' obsessions - as we discovered one morning when "Old Man River" came blasting out through his windows. He's into collecting ancient gramaphones and phonographs (I felt ancient even typing those words!). He's also into collecting the kind of music that used to feature in the early Tom'n'Jerry cartoons. When my two little terrors are wrecking the place it just feels as though we have the perfect backing music wafting in from next door.

 

<<retreats to the relative sanity of the Bat Cave>>

[baddad]

...

 

My son's hamster gets in his wheel and just goes round and round and round... Our goldfish does a similar sort of thing too, except on Sundays he does it anti-clockwise. Do either count?

 

Kris - I think you're going to have to restart this topic under a different guise. This thread seems to have come unravelled!

 

Sorry for contributing to the mess. I'll behave next time, I promise

[nellie]

Baddad behave!!!!

 

Nellie

[Kris]

I give up with you lot, I really do!!!

 

 

Kris

[Gordie]

Well at least my vote was plain and simple enough!

 

James

[CarolJ]

Errr - I voted parent of ASD - but I am 100 percent convinced my cat has ASD tendencies.

 

It spins round in circles for hours on end. When it washes itself it always does it in exact same way, starting with ears (left ear first!) and gets terribly put out if you interrupt it! It always its food in an anti-clockwise circle. Starting from the outside and gradually working its way into the centre - in a spiraling pattern (walking round the food bowl). It cannot read signals from the other NT cat we have. She is constantly attacking him and growling at him as he seems to misjudge her mood constantly - yet he goes back for more! Subsequently he is a bit of a loner awwwwww! He lays in the doorway and does not move however many times he is trodden on! He also seems to have dyspraxia. He cant climb for toffee and attempts to run through the door and bounces off the door jamb!- he is really clumsy! He is always sneezing, and I suspect he might have a dust/pollen allergy or perhaps is allergic to cat fur ! He am my son tend to play alongside each other and get on really well together - cos they dont make any demands of each other!

 

What really convinced me though is that when you change the litter tray his number twos are all in a line! my other cat does not use the litter tray!

 

I definitely think we need a category for pets Kris!

Edited August 8, 2004 by CarolJ

[Kris]

I definitely think we need a category for pets Kris!

I'm beginning to think the same thing

[CarolJ]

What about Robbie? Do you think he may have traits?

[autty39]

hi,i myself has a ASD and i also have 2 kids with ASD's.

[CarolJ]

Hi Autty 39, r u on Autism R us site, you name looks familiar!

 

and

 

Kris

 

More categories need I think

 

Little boy next door (diagnosed Aspie) - little girl on opposite site (undiagnosed), 2 kids in street off of ours both LFA diagnosed.

 

Down the street 4 kids (2 undiagnosed) (2 diagnosed).

 

My best friend of 20 years her daughter HFA.

 

Her nephew suspected HFA, ADD diagnosed ODD S&L and learning delay.

 

Err shall I continue?

 

On my estate 35 diagnosed on disability register - none of the ones that I know personally in my street are on Disability Register.

 

I think I will stop here - sorry Kris - I would recommend a holiday once Elefan returns for Robbie!

 

Have a bicardi breezer m8 and let your hair down!

 

You are doing a fantastic job!

[Jericho]

Why do I get the feeling that this poll may end up being abandoned?

[supersec]

I am the mum to an asd son! Mind you think the dog might be as well, she thinks she is human

[CarolJ]

Does the dog run round in circles (stimming) and does it chew inappropriate things ie shoes (pica)?

 

These are sure signs, my cat does this-

 

He also has absolutely zero fear - sits outside the front of the house and if a dog happens to pass he just sits there, does not seem to be aware of danger - he also lies in the road and no matter how many times someone beeps at him he continues to just lie there! I have actually seen a car drive slowly over him as he refused to move - he still continued to just sit there!

 

Of his nine lives I reckon he is probably down to 2!

[CarolJ]

Oh yer, next doors budgie had some very odd behaviours - used to bob its head up and down a lot and kept banging its mirror.

 

I say had cos one of the kids left the window open and my NT cat ate it!

[PINKCHAMPSU21UK]

My 2 boys have aspergers,possible sis who committed suicide last year, pink x

[lynyona]

mum of asd son lynn

[Auriel]

i think i count as "person with asd"

[Elefan]

Auriel,...you have highlighted that the poll is missing an option,....STAR,...because you all are, who cope with all the hassles that school life brings!!!!

 

 

Things will get better for you. <'>

 

Elefan

[Zemanski]

Kris, tell me how to vote please - I fit 4 categories

 

teacher with ASD specialism/IPS specialising in ASDs

 

parent

 

spouse

 

carer/support for other ASD adults

 

this isn't other - cause I fit the categories - can we have a 'split personality' option

 

help I think I'm drowning in autism

 

Zemanski

[helenl53]

would it not be easier to put our hand up if we have no idea abouth ASD and we thought we were on Ebay

[Flora]

Mother of two ASD little darling And my two dogs are definately autistic!

 

I'm already having a drink

 

Lauren

[barefoot wend]

Shouldn't we also have a category for people we've seen on TV or people we've read about in the paper.

 

This morning on TV they were talking about the anniversary of Nelson's death and the Navy chap was saying that he'd shown a bunch of school children around Victory saying 'It was two hundred years ago today'.. apparently one of the children piped up 'it must have been a Monday' (that would be the AS one then).

[call me jaded]

Could we call it "Quick, there's an Autistic Person on Telly!"? (with due acknowledgement to ouch!)

[Zemanski]

are all dogs autistic?

 

now there's an area for research

 

and how many use our forum???

 

Zemanski

[Kathryn]

I thought it was cats who are autistic?? Dogs are far too socially aware.

[Guest flutter]

ok so u have all made me larf lots

thanx

XXXX

ps i am mum to one as daughter one nt son

but do think i have tendencies my self