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anyone like to hold my hand for a weekend? (reposted from teens

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ThatVikRinA22 · 02/07/2010 07:15

DS (has aspergers, dyslexia) has gone away for the weekend with a friend. he is 18. he has gone away to a computer festival type thing in Scotland at a university (i think its called Geek Con!) he is travelling from yorkshire by train.(he will have to make 3 different changes...!) he is going with another lad, who is 19, who is a black belt in martial arts but who also has aspergers. he has made all his own travel arrangements and booked a guest house.

i am being very brave on the outside. i will keep busy and he has promised to text on arrival and phone me tonight.

would anyone like to tell me i am worrying for nowt and he will be ok, and that i have to let him do these things....i know im fussing. i hope to god he remembers to buy some soap and toothpaste....

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roundthebend4 · 05/07/2010 08:19

Glad both he and you survied the weekend ,bet it's made him feel grown up expect many more weekends away now,

ds16dyslexic and probable As is of to Africa in September fir 6 weeks so I'll be one requiring large amounts of wine and hand holding

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ThatVikRinA22 · 05/07/2010 15:51

omg roundthebend - good luck with that! give us a shout - ill be around for hand holding duties.

well my boy should have set off by now - but his phone is off....i bet he forgot to charge it - id have liked to know he was on the way.

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TheArsenicCupCake · 05/07/2010 16:23

So glad all is going well

gives me hope to think this could be ds2 coping in a fw years!.. ( wibble).

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ThatVikRinA22 · 05/07/2010 17:58

got a text. as i thought - his battery died! he should be back here at about 7.45pm...wonder what he has left in his room!?!!

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LollipopViolet · 05/07/2010 18:35

is all I can really say.

Well done him, and you, can't have been easy.

I've got to do a daily commute to Manchester for 2 weeks next month. I've been to Manchester a fair few times now but I'm still having a wobble about it! It's for work experience and I want to make a good impression. Only, the lady emailed me back and said I MAY need to run errands for them.

I don't know Manchester city centre THAT well! Aaaargh and my sight doesn't help, if there's no landmarks to go by I can get totally LOST!

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ThatVikRinA22 · 05/07/2010 20:59

hes home!

safe and sound!

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MrsYamada · 05/07/2010 22:02

Glad he's home safe and had a good time, and well done you for surviving the worry!

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ThatVikRinA22 · 05/07/2010 22:26

he has announced that he has taken on a project for the owner of the bed and breakfast that he stayed in - he is doing some programming thingy for their website so says he may need to go back up for a weekend - though he says they said he could stay for free! lol! he is a very good little programmer. he has a part time job now in programming. his boss has told him he is taking him to Vegas in january so im using this little jaunt as a warm up!

we'll see what transpires. i really dont know why i worry about him at all.

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PositiveAttitude · 06/07/2010 09:18

That sounds absolutely fantastic, Vicar. You must be (rightfully) immensely proud of him. Well done you for raising him to be such a fine young man!!

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ThatVikRinA22 · 07/07/2010 23:37

well im trying. he did bring back toothpaste....

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PositiveAttitude · 08/07/2010 09:44

Was it opened and used, or bought in the shop on the way home?

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ThatVikRinA22 · 08/07/2010 11:13

i never thought of that! still - shows ingenuity if nothing else!

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troublewithtalk · 08/07/2010 11:32

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ThatVikRinA22 · 08/07/2010 22:57

my advice would be save the stressing! i used to worry so much about my lad, really, i exhausted myself. they turn out ok in the end. i would have worried less had i known what the future held.

but of course now i worry about a different set of things that in 10 years i will wonder why i worried about!

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roundthebend4 · 09/07/2010 07:22

im gla dhe enjoyed it and not just enjoyed it found something els ehe can do

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ThatVikRinA22 · 09/07/2010 11:29

well he has got some work from it.

the owners of the B&B he stayed in would like him to do a website and a booking system for them and he has also just earned some money from a bloke in America who needed some programming work doing.

he keeps finding these little odd jobs.

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saintmom · 09/07/2010 11:44

what a lovely thread to read

i would have been a nervous wreck and prob of stalked him there and back!

it is so nice to hear news like this, at the moment ds1 is 9 and ds2 is 3 both ASD and the thought of them going to the paper shop when older scares the crap out of me!

Good for you and well done to your son i bet you are so proud of him

troublewithtalk · 09/07/2010 20:18

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ThatVikRinA22 · 09/07/2010 23:34

organisation and self care are not my DS strong point either. but i just remind him and leave it at that.

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