... I think I posted here before that I was "non-verbal". That was a poor choice of words as I have always been able to make words come out of my mouth. It's...
... I approach that more specifically, with the mantra, ** "Disclosure is final. Disclosure should be measured." ** In a general work sense, I tell people...
If you don't wish to say anything about AS, I suggest just explaining whatever characteristic(s) that you think the person needs to know. If the characterstic...
Heh. That just made me actually laugh out loud, because it seems to be so incongruous. A "broken brain" is somehow less stigmatizing than "I have AS and it...
Autism is to most people a negative thing, and it can distort the image they have of you. But I don't think MWNN37 needs to explain anything to anyone. If...
... What stigma? If anything, I've found that telling people I'm an Aspie makes them more amenable to me. ____________________________________________________ ...
My question is how do you explain to NTs you meet about your AS diagnosis without telling them specifically? I'm talking about those people you would meet who...
... Family legend is a certain cousin died of alcoholism (probably liver failure). This was during the Prohibition (when the US banned most alcoholic...
... very hard to explain and more so given my own social limitations, but here's a couple examples. 1. Her 1939 high school yearbook shows that she got...
... way.> Out of curiousity, what do you mean by "an odd way"? -Marcie ... Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page [Non-text portions of this...
... I'll try to tackle definitions first. Officially: Autism is a specific set of criteria (that can happen with or without speech delay). Asperger's is a...
... My mother was the only one of her siblings who was not a drinker, and two of them drank themselves to death in their 40's. I am sure her oldest brother was...
... alcoholic prevalent families? > Either. Mostly I was thinking of families since that's what I'm familiar with. I'm also wondering if they differ from...
I'd guess that most likely autism and alcoholism have no direct relationship. Anecdotally, there have been alcoholics in my family, but they were all NT. The...
Are you referring to the Aspie being alcoholic, or coming from alcoholic
prevalent families? My DH's family doesn't drink for the most part. His
mother is...
There is some of this in my family as well, and for those suspected to be on the spectrum who abuse substances (alcohol++), it seems to me to either be as you...
In part of Temple Grandin's "Emergence: Labeled Autistic", she mentions that there is some coincidence between autism and alcoholism. I probably wouldn't have...
I think myopia is just extremely common, so therefore there are going to be plenty of autistics who also have it. ... -- there are two equal and opposite...
Hello all, Is there any known link (genetic, behavioral etc) between myopia and autism ? The "odd guy/gal with glasses and hunch-back" ? or maybe too much...
... PDD-NOS and an Asperger Dx is that Aspies acquire speech much earlier than PDD-NOS. Then I also hear that the difference between Asperger's and PDD-NOS is...
No, we had to pay ourselves. You should be able to get speech therapy through your school district (unless you live outside the US and I didn't pay close...
did your insurance cover it? mine is really bad, they won't even cover the speech theraphy. ... ____________________________________________________ Start your...
That I don't know. I was lucky enough to have a referral to this amazingly talented therapist from our doctor who did our evaluations and dx. Maybe your local...
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