programme on bbc about autism

[beverleyjayne]

hi everyone just seen this on another board!
next tuesday at 9pm on bbc3, it looks to be very interesting.

will try a link
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m5jb4

hope that worked

bev

When my son was 11, all I was aiming for was him to stay in mainstream.
Three years later, he's looking at GCSEs, University and living independently as real possibilities. It's a long haul, but he has amazed me with his progress and use of his taught skills and strategies.
Independent travel? He can do that too now at 14. At 11, he'd have just got distracted and lost and forgotten what he was doing.

i second goblins experiences....

my ds is 17, doing A levels an going to uni and has a summer job computer programming! and doing very well at it too!
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should i have said he has aspergers, dyspraxia and dyslexia!
its not all doom and gloom. weve had our hiccups but on the whole i think i can stop worrying...

Just celebrate what they can do and stop worrying about the future.

Mine's 21 and studying for Bsc in Genetics. He can't yet catch a bus on his own yet and desperately wants a girlfriend. But he got through his driving theory test last Saturday.

It's not all doom and gloom.

funnily enough i just said on another forum i should do my own documentary....
maybe we just arnt depressing enough!

my ds has had 'girlfriends' and is often surrounded by girl 'friends'! he is holding down a job. he did fantastically at GCSE and is doing ok at A levels...he does independent travel rather well - he has no fear! if he gets lost it really doesnt phase him!
there is the other side to these documentaries - and its not all bad!
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Yo wet august! not all we need is a bucket of mead and goblin child and the boys are back in town! lol!

*now
not not!

Picyvic - Could you ship a few of his spare girlfriends down south for mine please

pickyvic,

Many thanks for posting.
Have 5 yr old with suspected aspergers.
Recorded programme to watch later, not brave enough to watch tonight.
Your post regarding your son is inspirational.
Thank you again.

I cried watching that, but thanks for the link.

It would be good to have a follow up - and more positive stories too.

my son is a real hit with the ladeez! wetaugust we would, but may get locked up for pimping! my lad disappears these days and when asked 'where are you going?' its always to gemmas or to stephs or to hannahs or doing assualt causes with beth....!

i think he brings out the girls nurturing/protective sides!

i dont think that programme would have done me any favours 10 years ago tbh.

i am worrying far less these days about his future. somehow i think he will be just fine. and he will no doubt earn far more than me! he is already buying internet sites and programming for a bloke who earns 20k a month! and he is doing ok at his A levels and has uni planned (computing of course!)
the futures bright!

And to think we were going to buy them a cottage in the wilds to live happily together.......

Early intervention is the answer. The more they are proactively taught and the younger that starts the better.

As for the future.. I have just completed my Haynes Manual - Aspie 1988 model. A complete handbook on how to operate all the systems that provide his current support i.e. DLA, DPs, LHA, Medical etc should I not be around to do it for him.

Quite satisfying thing to do as I would hate anyone who took over to have to start from scratch as I had to do.

I get gloomy without a bucket of Rose

right....pass that bucket then and ill get the box of vino out...and i could really do with that haynes manual! seems sensible to me....theres a haynes manual for every make and model...why not the aspie version! you could market it!

dont rule that cottage in the wilds out just yet as i may need it! sod the kids....we could just move in together! we can swap manuals!

Off the booze unfortunately - have to start too early in the mornings now. Just save it for the weekends now.

Counting down the days until I disappear on holiday leaving him and his Manual to his father.

off the booze!?? how on earth are you coping! i need my bit of bottled sanity! tho should take a leaf out of your T total book...
ive indulged tongiht as im off tomorrow but got a police shift thursday so will have to abstain!
good on your aspie version 1988 on his driving theory test though! excellent news.
thats the next thing for D....he is as co ordinated as an uncordinated 17yr old aspie can be be hey ho! here goes nothing and thats what insurance is for right!?
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sorry busy x posted! see - thats progress! i swear if i think back to when DS was 7 i never in a million years thought he would be doing what he is now.
remember aspergers is a develepmental condition - so they keep on developing and learning all the time - it just takes them a bit longer than NT's. doesnt mean they never get there - just means it might take a while longer!

I found the program really positive. I did feel for tom, I think his parents just didn't understand the autism, the bit with the argument over the computer made me feel like they hadn't catered for his needs and expected him to conform to normality.
My ds has a verbal dx and is 3.2 and me and dh were really worrying about what the future held for him but this program has eased our worries.

Hmmm - hoping not to have to use the insurance

What I can't understand is that although he's an absolute whiz on computer games and utterly coordinated when he#'s kiling aliens, he has difficulty with roundabouts!

Never mind - the theory test is valid for 2 years so with a waiting list of 6 weeks for the practical he can fit in 17 attempts in the next 24 months!