If you don't mind me asking, do you know what prompted your parents to get you tested? Were there signs that they saw fairly far back? --I guess you said non-standard language patterns; what specifically?
What do you think about having had a more mainstreamed education? Would you have preferred anything special?
Do you approach social settings with "rules," like, okay, when I see someone the rule is that we say hi to each other, and then a) if I know something about their life I should ask about them, if not, b) one of four kinds of general questions about their life... etc.
(full disclosure: I have a 3-year-old who displays some tendencies towards being slower in social development, so this is personally relevant -- although I am pretty sure she would not actually fall into ASD, and she reminds me very much of both my husband and me; neither of us are ASD. However, I do think of social situations as something to be figured out through rules -- I never figured out how to do them "naturally" -- and I've found, interestingly, that I'm starting to teach my kid the same way, and that she responds to it better than other, perhaps more "naturalistic," methods.)
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Date: 1/14/13 04:35 pm (UTC)If you don't mind me asking, do you know what prompted your parents to get you tested? Were there signs that they saw fairly far back? --I guess you said non-standard language patterns; what specifically?
What do you think about having had a more mainstreamed education? Would you have preferred anything special?
Do you approach social settings with "rules," like, okay, when I see someone the rule is that we say hi to each other, and then a) if I know something about their life I should ask about them, if not, b) one of four kinds of general questions about their life... etc.
(full disclosure: I have a 3-year-old who displays some tendencies towards being slower in social development, so this is personally relevant -- although I am pretty sure she would not actually fall into ASD, and she reminds me very much of both my husband and me; neither of us are ASD. However, I do think of social situations as something to be figured out through rules -- I never figured out how to do them "naturally" -- and I've found, interestingly, that I'm starting to teach my kid the same way, and that she responds to it better than other, perhaps more "naturalistic," methods.)