Originally Posted by KpbS
Thank you for the touching post!to you and your sweet DS.
Adding Temple Grandin's books in my to-read list.
Pakin
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Thread: Just like me!
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04-11-2010 #11
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04-11-2010 #12
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AWESOME, Gena. That's really wonderful
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04-11-2010 #13
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awwwwwwwwww!
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Awesome! Funny, I was just thinking about her the other day. One of our horses suddenly started refusing to enter the wash stall in the barn, even though he'd been in there several times before. Something is obviously freaking him out, and it wasn't there before. So I've been studying the stall, trying to see it like Temple Grandin does!
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04-11-2010 #15
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Yes, yes, yes!! My DS with autism is 4.5, uses words at his school and sometimes at home (come on little guy!) but he sure can read! He studies things so intensely I can't wait to find out what is going on in that wonderful little mind of his! Originally Posted by KpbS
Thank you for the touching post! to you and your sweet DS.Samantha
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N. and J. - My heart and hands are full!
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Hemingway
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04-11-2010 #16
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Originally Posted by ShanaMama
it's because of you that your little boy will grow up confident and self assured. You are an amazing mom.
" I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." Mahatma Gandhi
"This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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04-11-2010 #17
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Thank you everyone for the kind words and encouragement. It's so good to be able to share my happiness for DS here.
DS is still too young to really understand what it means to have autism. But it is definately part of his self-identity already. He does know that it means he thinks differently than other kids and it makes some things a lot harder for him. But we also tell him that his autism is why he reads so well and is so good at math. I'm grateful that Temple Grandin and other adults with autism can be positive role models for him.Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong
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04-11-2010 #18
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yup even some mommas on this board can tell you being on the spectrum does not limit you.
Jeana, Momma to 4 fantastic sons
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