Friday, February 22, 2008
The Homeless Library and Asperger
I went to our local Library or as I like to call, Club homeless people. The library has no good books and it is full of homeless people trying to get on to surf the web. Techi homeless people, what has our world become. I looked up 10 different books on aspergers syndrome and the reference said that they were all check in but they were not. Our Library in Concord is the main branch and they have the crappiest selection of books and movies. We suspect that our son JD has Aspergers Syndrome. It is kindof a very light form of autism. Einstien had it and Bill Gates has it. So the disease is manageable. The syndrome makes you kindof focus on certain things, to the exclusion of everything else, thus you become an expert at that one thing. Bill Gates, business, and einstien, physics. JD can't stop thinking about computers, electronics, cell technology, but he doesn't know much applicable knowledge, mainly just theory. I always thought he had some sort of autism by the way he would interact with people. You would be talking to him and having a conversation, but it was like he wasn't there. He didn't understand anything you said to him. One of the sydromes symptoms is that they cannot understand metaphor or sarcasm. JD definitely cannot understand these. If you say"go break a leg". He literally thinks that you want him to break his leg. If you say that your strength is like a bear. He thinks that you are like related to a bear or you are a bear. We have to completely change our parenting style. We thought that he was just disrespectful, arrogant, and lazy. He in actuality, cannot help it. He would always say that he didn't understand why he was in trouble for certain things, and I thought he was just playing dumb. He really didn't know why he was in trouble. According to his mind, he was just strolling along minding his own business, being perfect, when a big ogre, Me, came along and started to punish him for no reason. Well any way, its nice to have finally figured out what to do.
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