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

Hi guys!
We went to Snowdonia, G came back with 42lbs of geological samples. 20lb of which I didn't know about and he managed to smuggle into the car.
He wants Geology to be one of his A levels.
Did brilliantly on the navigating and managed to cook unaided in a YHA kitchen twice, with strangers bobbing in and out.
Doom and Gloom TV always get more viewers though, often the 'Thank God that's not us' crowd.
I look at the smoking, doping, drinking teen documentaries and think 'Thank God that's not us'
So yes, the future looks so much better than the past to me.

good luck to him! (and you! lol)

x posts again!!! so that was good luck to wetaugust and DS

hi goblin! (ditto most of the time!) we are all at peace and harmony just now and im trying to be grown up when faced with daft aspieness. so far so good!
think youve got a born geologist there!

Let us not forget the many, many Welsh castles built by Edward 1. And their many, many, many steps.
Part Boy, part Goat.

Hi GB
Sounds like a good trip to Snowden. He did well.

'Interesting stomes' has been a life-long hobby of my son's. His window ledge and trouser pockets are always full of them. I chuck them into the garden periodically. Gawd help any archaeoligist whose raking around in my veg plot in centuries to come! One really 'intersting' 'pebble' that i can just about lift on my own has lived in his bedroom since he found it on a Cornish beach 13 years ago!

The abnormal just becomes normal

strange how that happens isnt it? do you even notice the abnormal anymore? i notice the normal more than the ab....

He already had a large collection of chalk (Did you know there are more than 42 varieties?) and flint.
Now he has added large amounts of quartz, slate and sandstone plus unidentified-as-yet bits.
And we have a playhouse come shed which is his workshop. Detached from the house, so if it blows up I've still got a roof.

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

That's my philosophy too, and so far it works better than any other. I'm glad we accidently found each other again. The Gang of Three!

LOL @ GB. All bases covered then

wait until you have to start buying the rarer stuff like raw amethysts and those swirly things I can't remember the name of.

I was going to ask 'What is it with rocks and Aspies' but as Busybeingmum has pointed out - a lot of NTs seem to be at it too

He has chunks of amethyst, it's his birthstone. Swirly stuff? Do you mean quartz slices that have banding patterns in them?
I have a collection of rocks, shells and fossils as well. It's what I have instead of nicknacks on shelves.

mine actually grew out of it! ive lost count of the number of lovely shiney clean pebbles i pulled out of the washing machine!
its computers now. big ones, small ones, broken ones, slow ones, fast ones, hand held ones, mini ones,
they speak his language! or he speaks theirs im not sure which!
and im very glad ive found you 2 again aswell! i sort of miss the late night bun fights!

My birthstone too. Amonites??? The fossily things.

I have collections too (not stones) - collections are an Aspie thing that I didn't realise were associated with the condition when I was younger. Explains a lot!

I've just watched that BBC3 prog on i-player.

Didn't the parents realise that Aspies hate to be touched / hugged? The blonde boy Tom did excatly what my son does when you touch him - uses his hand to wipe the area you touched. It drives me nuts!!!

oooooo

amethyst is my birthstone aswell!!....have we yet again found the missing link? to go with green shoes?....

My birthstone is Emerald.
It's green I suppose!

Sounds like a very clear marker that should be added to the diagnostic criteria immediately. Size 4 feet, green shoes, amethyst as your birthstone, fear of flying....

Who needs a multi-disciplinary assessment team.

hey i think were onto something! should also add being nocturnal! (have you seen the time!) needless to say my DS is still up and about too!

has your lad ever been to filey brigg GC? its a long way oop north! there are some spectacular ammonites fossilised on there....i spent hours fossil hunting on filey brigg...
yet another marker? oh dear....!

Much as I would like to stay up all night I must hide the remaining Haribo and get to bed.

Speak to you soon.

as they say on the dark side - is there an emocion for 'pass the sick bucket?'

Mine's asleep, but P is at a party and I'm expecting a call to give her a lift home soon.
I think he's knackered because of all the moving and rearranging he's been doing of his collection.

We've been up to Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay, I'd keep him away from Filey until he stops digging into sandbanks. There was a nasty accident there when I was a child that involved the premature burial of two lads.

oooooo not good, didnt know that. still - the brigg has some very interesting fossils embedded into it, for when he stops digging.

right y'all i should find my bed too. when shall we three meet again? evil cackle

You could leave a message on the Dark Side.
`I'm on holiday for the next month anyway. :P

I watched this last night with dh, dh still can't see that this could be us with the dd's in a few years . I found the story of Tom very upsetting and i found it hard to sleep last night thinking about him. I have no experience of teenage boys on the spectrum but i couldn't help feeling that some of his parents actions were wrong, i know that he's a large boy and if he gets angry he could hurt his younger siblings but it upset me to think of a child with ASD being bundled into a cold shower, if i did this to dd1 she would be sick with fear and sensory overload, wouldn't a cold shower be very painful for someone with ASD?

The lad that was looking for a job had a great personality and a great sense of hummer, i can see dd1 being like him when she's older, he would also be a great person to have working with/for you.