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interesting problem... and to me it sounds more like the ADHD than the aspergers (which is the part I really understand best), but here are some thoughts, maybe one of them will fit. BTW, my brother was what they called "hyperkinetic" at the time... the internal inpulse was MUCH stronger than...

ok, quoting myself here, because I just noticed something very Aspie in what I did... maybe this will be useful to those who are trying to understand their family's aspie behavior/thinking. my response to my husband was based on his having used "rembember" and my objecting to that...

Quote: HA! my long lost sister! I don't think I've heard anyone else describe that, and that is EXACTLY what our experience of the movies is like! in fact, it's how we figured out that I have an actual defect... we were watching Kingdom of Heaven and there are two characters in there that look...

Quote: in my case, I don't instinctivly read the facial and body language cues very well, but I've learned to make specific observations of the physical details so I can understand them better. the other problem - identity recognition - is more interesting to me... perhaps because its the...

Beekissed: it's interesting what we discover when we start looking past our assumptions about what everyone else experiences, isn't it? the areas where you and I overlap (sensory crossover, texture response, etc.) are things that are part of the suit of autism-spectrum behaviors/issues...

(end obsessive aspie brain dump) so if there's something in there you'd like to know more about, ask. or if there's some particular behavior you'd like some insight into, ask. I might not know, but if it's in my experience, I'll shed what light I can on it.

and I think it's important to find out what other components of perception and processing may be different, missing, under- or over-developed. there can be stray perception issues that further cloud the mix, but once understood can be managed. I have some sensory cross-over: loud things cause...

a couple of other things. frustration is a big issue, because we often can't make things work the way others do... at least until we learn how to use our talents to compensate for the native abilities others have that we don't. in me, anger and frustration are clues that I need a tool-set...

the other part is that we often don't care about the same things as non-aspie folks. the desire-to-please may not be plugged in, or may not be plugged in in the same way as with other folks. for instance (what I look like / how others think I look / if they approve of me) is something I've...

so one part of improving personal interactions is the skillset above (observations, analysis of observations, rules for acting on that analysis). aspie's get rules, especially if they can tune those rules to get the results they want. (that's very satisfying) if your aspie son is having...

so growing up, I didn't understand the emotion stuff... not that I didn't have emotions, I did (mostly fear and anxiety, but the full complement of others too). the problem was I didn't read body language, facial expression, behavioral clues to other's emotions. it wasn't that I didn't care...

ok, here goes.keep in mind there's wide variability in the constelation of apsie traits and function/non-function, and your son's brain may not be like mine in some respects. his processing may be different. however I will say that my experience strongly overlaps with what I've read from other...

I wrote up a whole thing on what that's like from the inside of being Aspie (because I am one)... and then my computer gliched and it vanished. I would say this is kinda close: Quote: but misses the mark a little on what actually happens inside our experience and what works to change...

Quote: hm. different issue than what I thought you meant. I tent to have repeating phrases in my head, but typically not out my mouth. as a kid, I counted - similar objects (like red cars), events (like the number of bumps that made the car squeek on the way to somewhere), or just numbers one...

a thought on the repeat repeat repeat behavior - if your son is telling you the same over and over, here are a couple of things to consider. I tend to repeat my communications until I'm sure they've been understood. I don't need people to agree with me, but I *really*really* want them to...

Quote: yeah, that'd be aspies. be sure to work with the school social worker yourself - you'll need to know what social rules he understands, and what he doesn't so you can help make some logic out of what he gets/ doesn't get. there are ways to understand social situations on a rule-basis...

how about an adult with aspergers? that'd be me... let me know if I can help in any way, answer questions, whatever you might need. I wasn't diagnosed as a child (because, in part, the definition didn't exist then) but as an adult I scored 42 out of 50 on the assessment test. I don't have ADD...