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hi my name is Heather I am new to the group here.   I have a 13 almost 14 year old son with autism and would love to help anyone who has a younger child with autism.  So please feel free to ask anything i know how difficult and wonderful autism can be!!!! 

Hi, I'm Anna.

I have two children on the Spectrum.  (And one who is not).

Chey is 12 and has Aspergers and Inattentative ADD and Cj is 7 and has Autism and ADHD.  I was also a special education teacher working with children with autism for a few years.

My kids are wonderful special people with a unique outlook on life.  They also have quite a few challenges, but so far we are plodding along merrily.

I look forward to chatting to ppl I meet in this group :)

Cheers

 

I am new to minti and I would love to share with others about my autistic son.  I think it is important to share about our special kids.  The statistics are staggering... and yet, there are so many who do not know what autism is and no one knows for sure what causes it!!! Anyway, my point is that I am here and willing to talk about my experience in order to help someone else...  Although every child on the spectrum is different, it is helpful to know that you are not the only one dealing with the special challenges of having a child with autism.

Hi I am a mum to 2 boys Josh (3) who has just been diagnosed with Autism and Samuel (14 months). I am hoping to get more information on how I can ready him for kindy and the world and was wondering if anyone had any good websites with good learning aids to assist in teaching basic skills like self dressing and undressing as well as any other skills to help him in life.

Thanks

hi just wanted to connect with other parent i have a six year old who is mildlt autistic and 3 and half yo who iam having trouble getting asessed. I am now on my second run at the triple p program and whilst i think it is a gr8 program it hasn't really nade much of a difference to my 3 and half yr who has very severe language delay which has slightly improve but still not normal appropiate of a 3 and half yr old. Weel i would like to connect with others on the journey thnxs

i am wondering if anyone knows if they can help me kyle (my autistic son) is being ever so very voilent he is getting to the stage were he has his brother lincoln scared of him. i am at my wits end with it all im scared he will do some real bad damage to someone he is on meds but his peditrition says that they are all he can be given they so much dont do anything at all he goes as far as chocking lincoln till he goes blue and falls to the floor its not just small stuff its full on all the time.

HELP ME SOMEONE PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!

kylie

I just found out today that my two year old Jacob is autistic. I will be back to minti more often now for advice and to keep you all posted. Thanks, Lisa

my son today while at school during lunch time spotted his father from afar coming from the school fater piking up his sister from kinda and instead of the techers watching him he walked out of the school grounds and followd dad home ,scott my husband never new until 2 streets away from home he heard a call of " dad " behind him as as he turned he noticed austin .he brought him home and i went to the school who was looking from him nd made excuses saying that the teacher was having an exchange with another and left him alone for only a few minutes where we live he could ahve gotten run over even.

they blamed my husband for being within eye sight not the fact they were not watching him.

my son is almost 8 has less seach thn my 2 year old and isent toilet trained he should ave a carer,they have my oldest there they could have called to watch his brothe during the teacher exchange.

we even cancelled the move from housing cause we trusted the school what a mistake

iam so angry i called the department .

has anyone else have this happen to them ?

the teachers new they did wrong cause when they saw  me coming they all ran for it and the principal told me that she was concerned about another child cause they treid to run away and a witness that lives across from the school saw the principal had her back turned to my son  so she lied to my face .

they said they dont have the facilities to just watch my son but then why not say so...

he is suppose to have a carer cosidering he isent fully toilet trained and still has accidents in his pants .

he also takes heat fits ....they are not listenign to us and make us feel like they know beter.then i told them also what if my husband did not see him and was going somewhere and got on a bus or a taxi or a friend car and went out and austin tried to go home and there was no one there then what or if he ot lost he cant ask for help.or what if he folowed another man that loked like his father since hubby dressed all in black with always wearing wrestling tops and hat allot of men wear that in my area austin could have folowed a total stranger...

or even while crosing the road he could ahve gotten run over specially in the area we are in with crazy cars speeding with teenage drivers .

what is this world coming to .??????

WELL AUSTIN IS STILL BEING IMPOSSIBLE ,STILL NOT USING THE TOILET YET!HE DOES AT SCHOOL BUT AS SOON AS HE GETS HOME IS A DIFERENT MATTER.

HE HAS BEGAN TO TALK BACK HE IS TURNING 8 AND WHEN HE GETS TOLD OFF HE YELLS AND SAYS THINGS LIKE " SHUT UP" F***CK OFF ", I JUST FEEL LIKE SLAPPING HIM STUPID .

BUT HE IS GETNG IT ALL FROM OTHER KIDS FROM SCHOOL AND WATCHING TV.

BUT WE CANT EXPLAIN THAT TO THE TEACHERS OR TO STARNGERS IN THE STREET.

BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE TALKS AND LIMITED SPEECH HE SOUNDS LIKE A 2 YEAR OLD TALKING BACK TO ME .WHAT M I TO DO ? I STICK HIM IN THE BEDROOM TILL HE STOPS BUT HE DONT HE GETS LOUDER HE YELLS THEN HE PUTS HOLES ON THE WALLS FROM THE BANGING .HE IS DRINVING ME BONKERS .

MY DAUGHTER IS GETTING JUST AS BAD BUT THE TEACHERS STILL CONSIDER HER NORMAL,SHE IS GOING ON 6 AND STILL TALKS VERY LITTLE MUCH LIKE AUSTIN AND STILL NOT TPILET TRAINED .WHAT IS WRONG WITH DOCTORS THIS DAYS THEY SOUNDS AS IF THEY HAVE THEIR EYES CLOSED .????

SHE WOKE HUBBY LAST NIGHT  AT 4 AM SAYING " ITS BROKEN" AFTER 10MMINUTES OF ASKING WHATS BROKEN WITH NO RESPONSE HUBBY WORKED OUT IT WAS HER MIRROR SHE SLEEPS WITH SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT ,AFTER HE EXPLAINED IT WAS SAFE IN OUR BEDROOM AND HE GAVE IT BACK TO HER SHE WENT BACK T SLEEP.THEN AT 6 AM SHE WOKE UP WENT TO WAKE AUTIN UP TO RUN AROUND THE HOUSE  WHICH DAD WOULD NOT ALLOW AND PUT THEM BACK TO BED .

2 NIGHTS AGO AT 2 AM SHE WOKE UP YELLING CAUSE DAD WOULD NOT COME TO HER ROOM I WAS ANGRY WENT INTO HER ROOM ONLY TO HAVE HER ASK ME TO FILL UP HER BOTTLE " YES SHE STILL HAS A BOTTLE AT NIGHT TIME I HAVE TRIED TO REMOVE IT BUT WE HAVE HER SCREAM ALL NIGHT " ITS HER SECURITY BLANKET .ANYWAYS HER BOTTLE WAS FULL STILL,THEN SHE WANTED HER TOYS WHICH WERE RIGHT NEXT TO HER,AND HER STEREO WAS TO LOUD .T DROVE ME NUTS .SPECILLAY WHEN I HAV ONLY 9 WEEKS TO GO TILL WE HAVE BABY NUMBER 5 AND IAM GETTING NO SLEEP .MY PATIENCE IS AT A LIMIT.

hey everyone hows it all going?

its going prity bad here @ the moment I have lost kyles SCS worker as she has gone on meternity leave his speechy is just hopeless she isnt help me to teach kyle to talk i think he is goin  bk into his own little world and that is 1 thing I NEVER WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN she is more interested in teachin me to make him make eye contact his kinder well i had him vertually toilet trained with hard work that took me almost 2 yrs to have them tell me that he not allowed to wear undies to kinder he has to wear a nappie now @ 4 1/2 is a now way but bc of that kyle now WILL NOT use the toilet.

So i dont think anything else could go wrong.

Hope all is well fro every1 else

chat again soon

chins up 2 us ALL

cheers

kylie