Such is the Life of an Aspergian Parent

Hello All,

I haven't posted anything in a while. The school year has started and it has been hectic as always. Things that have recently occurred are as follows: the boys started school and homework is killing us. They both were recently sick for a week and we are still trying to catch up on homework. My husbands mom and Aunt went with me to a visit to our Psychologist and basically the summation of the family is: I am the problem to my son's negative behavior.

Parenting an Aspergian son who on the surface appears normal is challenging as hell. Why do you ask? Because EVERYONE thinks they are an expert and all my problems can be solved in a matter of minutes because all I have to do is get with the program. I mean they don't have the problems that I have with their children because THEY are assertive and take a hard stance on misbehavior. NEWS FLASH: for the most part, my son doesn't misbehave. For the most part when he is not agreeable, it is because he is on a sensory overload and to everyone who doesn't deal with this 24/7 it appears to be stubbornness and misbehavior. If I did the things, as a parent, that everyone thinks I should do, I will probably be successful in one thing, namely, having my adult son depressed and on anit depressants as an adult as my dad is because nobody understood him as a child.

Such is the life of an Aspergian Parent!!