Parenting: Dealing with "Different" Kids

(ASD) I don't know what that means... But I know that asbergus syndrome causes shyness, anti-social behaviour, obsessiveness and routines.

 

Not really life changing things are they? That is unless you have extreme cases, microsoft's owner has autism I think...

 

Kids 1-3 are all about the same headache. Take them to the doctor and get medication and treatments. I think the hardest part would just be the financial situation.

#4. It wouldn't be any problem for me at all. I've seen that people in same-sex relationships are more stable then the people I know in straight relationships. Look, many people are bisexual and can choose one way or the other, whatever makes them happy isn't my say. But there are gay people who were born the way they were. I've known kids growing up that you can just tell they are gay from the start, before they even know what sex is or what to do. It is obvious that those kids never had a choice in the matter. If you are straight and reading this and if you think it is a choice then that means that you must be bisexual yourself because if it is a choice then you could go gay if you wanted to. Most people who think this way would say that they could never be gay, well then, it isn't a choice now is it. The people that can choose are called bisexual, not gay.

 

As a friend of someone that has Autism, I can't see much difference from a normal person(except for the known patterns like rocking motions and stuff), and sometimes I even forget that the person has this problem.

Also, Cahos, you colud've title the topic with "Special" as opposed to "Different". Is softer and easy understandable.

But, I should say that the problem is not the special people. There are treatments and stuff for most disabilities.

On other hand, some normal people are just douchebags, a holes, idiots and retarded(not mentally). And there's no treatment for bad nature.

 

i would have to say based on me having most of the problems listed (aspergers, deformed foot, ADHD, seizures, and just about everything you can think of) that it would be difficult, but it would be possible. it was very hard for my parents to raise me at first, but we made it. and yes, like loony said, the term "special" is quite often offending, the reason for this is because we just want to be treated normally. but as soon as people find this stuff out about us, they just suddenly decide to treat us differently. i know, myself for example, even with the degree of high performing autism i have, still want to be treated normally. it just bugs me so much when people treat me differently because of it. where as you all have probably noticed by my time spent on the forum, that i am highly intellectual, and that people treat me properly when they don't know anything about me. *sigh*

 

Just to bring up this dead point again, Aspergers can effect quality of life. People with aspergers have difficulty with empathy, along with anti-social behavior, and a tendency to focus only on the topics they like to talk about. While the person may have good intentions they can do something hurtful to someone without really realizing it. The combination of these qualities of the syndrome make it difficult for people with aspergers to develop relationships and keep them.

There's a lot more to aspergers but the things I mentioned are the most prominent and easy to point out. Other things like physical clumsiness; restricted and repetitive habits or interests; monotone voice (confusing inflections); more familiar to literal language, not figurative; are also part of it, although not extremely noticeable.

Special is definitely the wrong word to use in the situation.

 

hmm..I would support my child as best as I could! It would kill me to not socialize with my child though... I'd definitely try my best! If my child was gay/bi/whattheheckever... I wouldn't care I say that a good parent is someone who has unconditional love for their child. A lot of people don't understand UNCONDITIONAL love...

 

If you notice, most parents that are really good parents take good care of their "different" children to a level not even good parents can take care of their normal children. Not because of their disabillities(I hope). This is the division line between people prepared to raise children and people that aren't.