Category: Coping as Adults
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When do children with Asperger’s know right from wrong
I saw that this was a search phrase used to find my blog. I believe that the answer to that question is: when you teach them. I don’t know that anyone really knows right from wrong on their own. It’s just that neurotypical people are just sort of able to pick up right from wrong…
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#4 Acts as though nothing bothers them (or that everything bothers them)
When Aspies are around people that they know care about them, or are put into a situation that is going to last beyond what they can fake their way through, they will let their true colors fly and tell you every little thing that bothers them, which is pretty much every little thing! Ask my…
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“Without Him we are disabled.”
I love this quote from one of the leaders of our school’s Mom’s in touch prayer group. Today we focused on God being our enabler. I laughed when I first heard her say that, not because I don’t think He is, but because we, as a society are constantly told, “don’t enable them.” This, of…
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Asperger’s and Pain
So often I have read that people with Asperger’s Syndrome, and other ASDs do not respond correctly to pain. It is true that we do not respond typically to pain. It is often assumed that we must not feel pain at the same level that others feel it. We definitely do have a different way…