I have always kind of wondered about my son, ever since he was one years old. He would line single baby mega blocks up in a straight line and by colour. If it wuoldn't stay in place he'd have a melt-down or fly into a rage. When he turned 3 in march, I started to worry a little bit more. One day his Daddy cut his sandwhich a certain way. The next day was a work day so his Daddy was gone, and I was making my sons sandwich. He got really upset because I wasn't making a "pointing up sandwich" .. he refused to eat the sandwich I made him and started having a melt-down. It got so bad that I called hubby at work and asked him what a pointing up sandwich is (he is in factory work). Once he explained that it's just cut into four triangles, my son stopped his melt-down and ate happily. I realized soon after that his lack of empathy. He would get mad at his sister and hurt her (she's 2, they're 15 months apart) then just go about his business. Sometimes he'd laugh about her crying, but mostly it just goes unnoticed when she or I is upset.
It is really difficult to get his attention. For a long time I thought it might be his ears, but when he is paying attention he can hear the smallest of sounds. We often raise our voices just to get him to turn and look at us or to stop and listen. He doesn't seem to pick up on this very often.
He will be four on March 3rd, and today we had another meltdown. The reason? Well, he was already upset about something trivial. Hubby wiped away our sons tears with a kleenex, but when hubby asked him to blow his nose in that kleenex it turned immediately into a rage/melt-down. He just started screaming and pushing. I took over for a few minutes so hubby could check on dinner, so I sat with our son in our bed and rocked him back and forth, trying to get him to look at me (he wouldn't), to take a deep breath (he refused) and to generally just calm down a little. He kept on crying and screaming, and kicking instead of pushing. He was trying to roll away from me, etc.
So a little while I looked up the symptoms and found this link:
My link
I got out a sheet of paper and numbered it per each catergory. I put a check mark for yes, an x for no, and a ? for sometimes or kind of. The results for check marks.. 33/56
The results with question marks and check marks... 41/56
He has been convinced for the past year that he will be a doctor. He gets interested in a lot of things but not enough to do them. He's like any kid in that he likes to dance, or play games, etc. But when it comes to being a doctor, anytime you ask him "What do you want to be when you get older?" He always says a doctor. We were at a consignment store and they had posters of popular cartoons, among other posters. We told him to pick one out for his room. We expected him to come back to us with a poster of Elliot Moose or something similar, but what he produced was a poster of a persons vein system, lungs and heart. One of those doctors diagram posters. He can add, one day at my parents it went like this:
Grandma - You can have one cookie.
Son - But I want two more cookies.
Grandma - No, you only get one cookie.
Son - But if you give me two more cookies, I'll have three!
Or, eating out one day at a table that is a semi-circle he said:
Son - This is half a table
Me - Right! How many half tables do you need, to make one whole table?
Son - One... no, Two!! You need two!
Anyway, what do you think based on the bit of background info I've provided? Have you ever seen the show parenthood, where the little boy Max has aspergers?
Everytime Max throws a fit about something trivial I can't help but think "Oh, my gosh. He's acting just like my son" Or, if my son throws a fit I think the same about the show "Oh, that's just like Max."
It is really difficult to get his attention. For a long time I thought it might be his ears, but when he is paying attention he can hear the smallest of sounds. We often raise our voices just to get him to turn and look at us or to stop and listen. He doesn't seem to pick up on this very often.
He will be four on March 3rd, and today we had another meltdown. The reason? Well, he was already upset about something trivial. Hubby wiped away our sons tears with a kleenex, but when hubby asked him to blow his nose in that kleenex it turned immediately into a rage/melt-down. He just started screaming and pushing. I took over for a few minutes so hubby could check on dinner, so I sat with our son in our bed and rocked him back and forth, trying to get him to look at me (he wouldn't), to take a deep breath (he refused) and to generally just calm down a little. He kept on crying and screaming, and kicking instead of pushing. He was trying to roll away from me, etc.
So a little while I looked up the symptoms and found this link:
My link
I got out a sheet of paper and numbered it per each catergory. I put a check mark for yes, an x for no, and a ? for sometimes or kind of. The results for check marks.. 33/56
The results with question marks and check marks... 41/56
He has been convinced for the past year that he will be a doctor. He gets interested in a lot of things but not enough to do them. He's like any kid in that he likes to dance, or play games, etc. But when it comes to being a doctor, anytime you ask him "What do you want to be when you get older?" He always says a doctor. We were at a consignment store and they had posters of popular cartoons, among other posters. We told him to pick one out for his room. We expected him to come back to us with a poster of Elliot Moose or something similar, but what he produced was a poster of a persons vein system, lungs and heart. One of those doctors diagram posters. He can add, one day at my parents it went like this:
Grandma - You can have one cookie.
Son - But I want two more cookies.
Grandma - No, you only get one cookie.
Son - But if you give me two more cookies, I'll have three!
Or, eating out one day at a table that is a semi-circle he said:
Son - This is half a table
Me - Right! How many half tables do you need, to make one whole table?
Son - One... no, Two!! You need two!
Anyway, what do you think based on the bit of background info I've provided? Have you ever seen the show parenthood, where the little boy Max has aspergers?
Everytime Max throws a fit about something trivial I can't help but think "Oh, my gosh. He's acting just like my son" Or, if my son throws a fit I think the same about the show "Oh, that's just like Max."
