Comments on: Back to Basics: My Autism Lists http://empowerautism.com/2009/11/back-to-basics-my-autism-lists/ A Site for Autism Stakeholders Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:18:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Empower Autism http://empowerautism.com/2009/11/back-to-basics-my-autism-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Empower Autism Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:40:52 +0000 http://empowerautism.com/?p=332#comment-113 Sandy, thank you for your comment, and for sharing about Brandon. It is not easy to pick which battles to fight with anybody, is it? Keep your chin up! Sandy, thank you for your comment, and for sharing about Brandon. It is not easy to pick which battles to fight with anybody, is it? Keep your chin up!

]]> By: sandy http://empowerautism.com/2009/11/back-to-basics-my-autism-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-112 sandy Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:16:35 +0000 http://empowerautism.com/?p=332#comment-112 You hit it right on the nose on your do's and don'ts, I have a son who is 21 and has autism he's in the lower functioning, you have to be very careful how you approach him, you can't get in his face or he backs away and gets anxious, have to explain everything your doing for the day to him because if you do or go somewhere he doesn't know he's all mixed up. Has to know ahead of time like if your going for a walk with him I tell him like and "after lunch we will go for a walk". You can't tell him oh Brandon we are going to a movie on Friday and its only Monday, he will ask every hour or 2 about going to the movie right up to the Friday, he has no concept of days or dates or time. We tell him day of or night before. I like the one about nitpick I have done this with my son on things that don't really matter they don't bother him but it bothers me, whatever may be the case. I have let things go now or I stress myself out and him. The one thing I can't let go is he swears and he uses the worst of the worst in language and knows how to pronounce these words perfectly, its usually when he doesn't get his own way, he loves shopping and if I say were not going today Brandon he says@@#$%$#@!!! or its time to leave something he's having fun at its F@#$#u and I almost die of embarassment so we don't go out as much as we use to. You see I had to put him in a foster type home because of the swearing it got so bad and he doesn't do it there, and he doesn't swear at day program he goes everyday except weekends he does know if he swears there they won't have him there. Are family have him home a weekend a month and holidays. Well I think I have rambled on enough here but everthing you said your doing right, Sandy You hit it right on the nose on your do’s and don’ts, I have a son who is 21 and has autism he’s in the lower functioning, you have to be very careful how you approach him, you can’t get in his face or he backs away and gets anxious, have to explain everything your doing for the day to him because if you do or go somewhere he doesn’t know he’s all mixed up. Has to know ahead of time like if your going for a walk with him I tell him like and “after lunch we will go for a walk”.
You can’t tell him oh Brandon we are going to a movie on Friday and its only Monday, he will ask every hour or 2 about going to the movie right up to the Friday, he has no concept of days or dates or time. We tell him day of or night before.

I like the one about nitpick I have done this with my son on things that don’t really matter they don’t bother him but it bothers me, whatever may be the case. I have let things go now or I stress myself out and him.
The one thing I can’t let go is he swears and he uses the worst of the worst in language and knows how to pronounce these words perfectly, its usually when he doesn’t get his own way, he loves shopping and if I say were not going today Brandon he says@@#$%$#@!!!
or its time to leave something he’s having fun at its F@#$#u and I almost die of embarassment so we don’t go out as much as we use to. You see I had to put him in a foster type home because of the swearing it got so bad and he doesn’t do it there, and he doesn’t swear at day program he goes everyday except weekends he does know if he swears there they won’t have him there. Are family have him home a weekend a month and holidays. Well I think I have rambled on enough here but everthing you said your doing right, Sandy

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