George and Sam

[Blossomhill]

Read this book and found it fascinating. Saw (as I knew I would) bits of dd especially in George.

Just wanted to say that some of the things that Charlotte Moore wrote it was almost like the way you write Jimjams. It was really weird as I could almost imagine you posting the same thing iykwim (hope you don't mind me saying that )

All in all a great book and I would thoroughly recommend it!

I read it too (as you know I think,BH) and found it very very interesting indeed.I so agree with the jimjams comment! Kept wondering if it actually was her (although i know it isn't!)

I wish she'd said more about the father-why they broke up,what part he plays and so on.
All to often,it's the mothers left to struggle on alone.

You gave me the idea to read it

I'm very flattered BH Wish I could write as well as her! I would also love to become as accepting of it all as she has. And it's funny as we've tried the same mishmash of combinations. PT ABA, special school following m/s experiences, bit of gfcf but not manically so. Just hope I don't get the divorce and that we remain 2 NT 1 autistic rather than 2 autistic 1 NT

DON'T read it now Socci! I got through one chapter and freaked out. DD doesn't like wearing hats (sensory?), barks orders about which direction to go in the car and sometimes gets upset if we don't go that way (rigid/routine?). Brrrrr, makes me shudder to think about it! I'll dig it up from its grave in the garden in a year or so.

a perfectly brilliant book...im almost evangelical about it at college....a must for everysingle-everybody to read.[awed emoticon]

except of course those who dont wnat to

I loved the book when I first read it. There were a lot of similarities with ds1 and ds2 and it helped to reassure me that I really wasn't just being neurotic about ds2. The description of Sam before the 'crash' was very similar to how ds2 is. A couple of weeks ago ds2 had some kind of weird temporary regression. I have no idea what caused it but it freaked us out. Ds2 went from being Hyper Boy with cheeky smiles and constant chattering (even if half of it is in some alien language) to being a complete zombie. It was as if someone had pressed the Off button. He didn't smile, he wouldn't look at anyone or anything. He spent his time wandering round in circles. It lasted for days and even dh was freaked out by it. Even more bizarrely it ended just as suddenly. One minute he was a zombie and the next minute he was smiling at me. Maybe when all of that is just a distant memory I might be able to look at the book again but atm I just can't face it.

oh coppertop
im so sorry for being so gushy [and liberal with the bold type] about such a powerful book

Don't apologise!

If you do a search on my previous posts you'll find that I've been recommending the book all over the place. It's a brilliant book IMHO. If this thread had been here a month ago I would have been right there alongside you.

beansontoast, the only reason I'm saying to Socci not to read it is that we both have older children with ASD and are worried about our younger ones, Socci more than me as hers is younger. Once our little ones are older we can handle reading this, at the moment its too too hard!