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EXHAUSTED, AND LOSING TEMPER EASILY, ANY ADVICE?
Jan 15th
Question by wayshower:
Exhausted, and losing temper easily, any advice?
Ok, I have a 9 year old son with Asperger’s syndrome….I also have a 7 month old baby who still wakes up in the night to feed and cuddle….I feel physically and mentally drained, and exhausted, not to mention I cannot keep up with the mess in my home of all three boys, including my husband, and their mess. the Laundry is never ending, the kitchen is always a mess, and no matter how much I clean and clean, it goes back again and gets messy…..I have lack of sleep and have noticed in the last few days that I am irritable, cranky, emotional, angry, and losing my cool fast……The holidays are coming and I do not feel cheery, I just feel angry and exhausted and stressed out….I’m getting angry at the baby, at my older son, and even at my husband….I’m crying constantly, and feeling so frustrated. I would never hurt my kids, but I just do not know what to do…..does anybody else have a similar situation? I have got family coming in 1 week and so much to do…..I wish I could just sleep, but I dont’ even have time for that…..I just do not know why I am soo angry and irritable and blowing up these past few days…..what do you think is the ideal way to handle this? any new parents going through something similar, how do you rest or deal with this anger and frustration? please help
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ANY THOUGHTS ON CO-ED BABY SHOWERS?
Nov 14th
Question by Lauren:
Any thoughts on co-ed baby showers?
I am due to have my first baby, a daughter in 4 1/2 weeks, and my baby shower is this coming Sunday. My problem is, is that I made the baby shower co-ed, and am planning on having fun things for the guys to do. My fiancee told me that he would rather have guys’ time with his buddies, than go to a baby shower for his daughter. I am feeling hurt & disrespected by that, considering he told me specifically over the summer that he wanted to be hands on with my pregnancy, medical or non-medical. I am at my wits’ end with him. He has Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism), and he can be very stubborn. Does anyone have any thoughts on this situation? I am really not comfortable with guys’ time, considering I was hospitalized roughly 3-4 weeks ago for early contractions (at 32 weeks pregnant).
I know that if he goes off on guys’ time, then I will hold it against him since I feel like he doesn’t care. He says he does, but I feel he doesn’t. Maybe it’s my hormones making me crazy, but I am feeling resentful towards him since he had a chance to do something fun with the guys last Saturday, plus my baby shower is going to be held at a restaurant (food!) and it is not going to be very long, no more than 1 1/2-2 hours.
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DID YOU “OPT OUT” OF HAVING YOUR BABY IMMUNISED (UK)?
Sep 12th
Question by Grace ♥:
Did you “opt out” of having your baby immunised (uk)?
My 12 week old daughter was due to have her second set of immunisations today…but I cancelled as I am so confused and worried about getting them done. The first set, at 8 weeks were awful…I cannot see how they can justify putting 2 needles that big into each leg. I have been researching, to try and make an informed choice, with no bias, but have just ended up more worried over it all than when I started…it’s so hard to find information on kids who have not had their immunisations out there.
What I’d like to know is…. Has anyone else decided not to get their child immunised, and is that child any superior or worse for it? I’d like to try and get some genuine, first hand answers, which I can’t seem to find anywhere else. This is my second child, with an 11 year gap…and I can tell you, the whole process just seems far more stressful than when I had my boy immunised years ago. He had all his needles, no problem. They were a lot smaller and only one needle per visit, as they’ve added different illness’ to the vaccine in the past few years. He was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome when he was 10 (probably absolutely unrelated, but these things do play on your mind.)
Anyway, I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has decided NOT to get their child immunised…thanks
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SHOULD I LET THIS GO?
Jul 12th
Question by Jadzia Dax:
Should I let this go?
my son’s stepmother has always been a very nice woman. we’ve never had the slightest argument she’s always been nice. But yesterday she came over to pick up my son and she was acting like a total bitch. My son has Asperger syndrome so sometimes he is difficult he has a kind of ritualistic way of saying goodbye to me and his stepmother was trying to rush him and he ended up having a break down and hiding in our closet which caused his stepmother to get extremly pissed off and one point she called him “a spoiled baby” So I told her ” you need to show a little compassion he’s going through a difficult time right now because his Aunt is in the hospital and he just wants to say good bye to me in his own special way.” then she accused me of not allowing him to make progress (although i’ve been the one that was doing exactly what the physicians and therapists told me to do, have patience and talk to him calmly and grant him to explain himself)
I was so pissed off at her that I almost told her to go home without him. I asked her to wait for us outside in her automobile and about 5 minutes later (after my son was granted to say goodbye to me in his own special way) I took him down to her automobile and everything seemed fine. That is until she got him home, once they were him she called me and told me that she thought I was making him worse, and then she said “it was your crappy parenting that made him the way he is” as if I made my son have Asperger syndrome . So about ab hour later my ex called and apologized and told me she was under a lot of stress I told him I did not want her picking him up anymore and my ex got kind of annoyed he said “okay I comprehend but there really is no need for that you should just let it go” but how can I let it go?
My son has already be teased at school, mistreated by a instructor (which caused that instructor to get fired) and I just can’t help but want to protect him for being mistreated some more! uggh!
what do you think?
by the way my son just turned 8
and his good bye ritual just consists of him giving me a hug and a kiss and then he wants me to tell him when he is coming back, how long he will be gone as well as the distance he will be going (for example, I told him “today is Saturday you will be back on Sunday that is about 24hours and you will be approximately 25 miles south on hwy 85″)
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I CAN’T SEEM TO KEEP MY HOME CLEAN OR ORGANIZED , NOR CAN I PAY THE BILLS ON TIME!?
Jan 5th
Question by nancyclarissa1970:
I can’t seem to keep my home clean or organized , nor can I pay the bills on time!?
I am always so overwhelmed with everything that needs done here at home. I have 4 sons, ages 8, 4 & 1 yr. old twins. The 8 year old has Asperger’s syndrome and it is very difficult to get him to help me take care of anything because his mind is controlled by whatever he is obsessed with at the moment. The 4 year old helps with little things, but tends to be a bit defiant at times, and I am already stressed out that I cannot bear to fight anymore. Right now, the only times I can get anything done is during the babies naptime. However, the older boys continuously make noise that wake the babies up prematurely which zaps my time. No matter how many times I tell them to be quiet, they forget and make more noise moments later. In the evening, I am so physically and mentally exhhausted that I cannot do any labor. Please help me! I have no money to pay for help here at home (we’re always broke)! Can anyone advise me what to do? Thank you!
I am married, and my husband has a good paying job…but we never seem to have enough money for everything. The fact that he will not stop smoking, adds stress to everything. I feel like he should give it up for his kids AND so we can pay the bills!!!!
Also, I am already on antidepressants, and ADD meds! I never have any energy in general, I have gained tons of weight since having the twins last year and my joints get stiff and achey easily, which makes it more difficult to get things done. Boy am I a wreck or what!!!!!
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MY 9 YEAR OLD BROTHER WAS JUST DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM?
Jan 5th
Question by Megan:
My 9 year old brother was just diagnosed with Autism?
And i feel like sobbing because i love my baby brother with all of my heart and i hate seeing him like this. I want to help my mother with him and everything but i do not know how. He has Asperger’s syndrome at least that is what he was diagnosed with. And he has these meltdowns were my mother and me have to hold him down and restrain him and i hate doing that to him =(. I do not know what to do i know as a 17 year old sister there is nothing i can do but i want to try. Advice?
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ASPERGER’S AND ADOPTING?
Dec 23rd
Question by indyrm03:
Asperger’s and adopting?
Hello! My fiance Ted, and I have a desire to have biological kids as well as adopt kids when we get married. Ted was adopted as an infant and we would love to help other kids in need of a family. Ted has Asperger’s Syndrome and we were wondering if his Asperger’s will effect us being able to adopt?
Ted is high functioning and is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant). He is happy, positive, super sweet and friendly. He really only has a hard time making eye contact with people. Also he has a hard time starting a conversation but if another person starts the conversation he is a chatter box.
BTW I am 30 years old and Ted is 29 years old.
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DOES MY SON’S SYMPTOMS SOUND LIKE ASPERGER’S SYNDROME?
Dec 2nd
Question by mtk0519:
Does my son’s symptoms sound like Asperger’s Syndrome?
My son is 6 years old. He’s had 2 brain tumors removed within the past year. He has coordination issues along with some mental issues as well. We believed the issues stemmed from the tumor and PTSD from surgeries and all else that he had been through. Now, the more I am looking into Asperger’s, the more it seems like this is what he is suffering from. First, he is a very articulate 6 year old. He’s been called “genius” and “wise beyond his years” for as long as I can remember. He’s very very smart. He also gets hung up on certain things as well. Like right now, he is hung up on school. We play school every night. He has charts, tickets for good behavior, school work, etc. It’s a big deal to him if we miss a night He likes to sit and speak with adults vs. children. He can’t catch a ball or throw a ball very well. When we go to a playground, he doesn’t really play on the equipment. When we need to go to the store or church, he always puts up a big fight unless it’s for something he wants to do. We always thought he was just being stubborn and never really thought it might be something more. He’s very shy when around massive groups and when he sees his “friends” from school in public, he tends to put his head down and not say anything. His coordination problems were thought to be from from the tumor (in cerebellum) but it just doesn’t seem to be improving. His motor skills were delayed when he was an infant as well and there’s no way to tell if the tumor affected him then or not. His occupational therapist told us that she thought he had some signs of Asperger’s and so does his mental therapist. Now, I am in sit and wait mode until I get a referral to the right doctors. I was just curious if anyone had experience with Asperger’s and if my son’s symptoms were enough to say he does have it and what can we do to help the issue. Thanks for your time.
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DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME?
Nov 11th
Question by Jane Adams:
Do you know anyone with Asperger syndrome?
A health care “professional” recently diagnosed my sister with Asperger syndrome. I am doubting this because when she was of school age she was the teacher’s pet because she was advanced in academics, she had plenty of friends and related to other kids and adults very well. Things changed however when she developed a seizure disorder as a young teenager. She was taken out of school and was not permitted to have a social life partly because of her illness and the way things were handled by parents. In her late teens and early 20′s she had some “sauces” with friendships and a work life, but for the past 20 or so years she has been sheltered. Now unable to work and in someones care who really doesn’t know her history, she has been given this diagnoses. I just do not think she has this because I thought it was something you got as an infant our very young child. Would you share your experience/story?
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DOES ANYONE THINK ALL THIS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HAND?
Nov 10th
Question by Dustin R.:
Does anyone think all this political correctness has gotten out of hand?
I remember when Michael Richards had a meltdown on stage a couple of years ago. What he did was wrong, and he apologized. However, I hear Monique making racist comments all the time, but I never see anyone rake her over the coals. I have met more racist black people in my life than I have white people. You would not believe how many times I was called a “honky” or a “cracker” by them. Yet if I used the N-word, I’d be getting lectured by the ACLU. I once dated a Japanese girl when I was in the service. Her parents ostracized me and referred to me as a “gaijin.” Because I was not Japanese, I was not worthy of marrying her daughter. Earlier this evening I explained that I have to ask for an equal amount of men and women in the surveys I do for my telephone survey job. Naturally, women cooperate more. When I get the maximum number of females, I am instructed to ask for the men. A lot of these women get offended when I ask for the man of the house. Others even claim they are the man of the house. They think I can’t tell the difference between a man’s voice and a woman’s voice. A few of them even tried giving me a lecture. Here is another scenario. I was raised by a single mom, so I have all the respect in the world for them. Two years ago, I was invited to a Christmas celebration by an elder black lady. Her daughter was in her early 20′s, and she had just had a newborn baby. My curiosity got the ideal of me, and I asked where the dad was. After all, this is a easy question, and it’s kind of hard to ignore it. They all told me that the mom was the father. After that, I brushed it off because I figured it was a touchy subject. I am not stupid; I know how babies are conceived. I was not criticizing this woman for having a bastard child; I asked the same question I envision this kid will when he grows up. So because I ask this question, I am a male chauvinist all of a sudden. Because I think the Monique is racist, and the Reginald Denny beating in the L.A. riots was a hate crime, I am now a damn racist cracker. At least that’s what it seems. This may come as a shock to you, but I do not feel guilty about being white or male. I have tried diligently to be color-blind, but it’s kind of hard to be sometimes when these socioeconomic problems are right in front of our faces. I have a mild form of autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome. I have been discriminated against for that. Why did not the media crucify Denis Leary or Michael Savage for their inflammatory remarks about autism? Where is my affirmative action? Why do not I have some obnoxious loudmouth like Jesse Jackson singing his heart out for me? Instead we’ve got Jenny McCarthy going around giving parents false hope claiming her son is “cured.” Plus, several parents are now terrified of getting their children vaccinated because they’re convinced their children will be autistic. There’s even a group called Autism Talks that wants us exterminated from the gene pool.
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