Finally
Alec and I are off to Saint John today to see a developmental pediatrician, that we have been on the waiting list for almost two years. She’s going to be assessing Alec for asperger’s syndrome. If he has it, and we suspect he may, we know it’s mild. There are particular areas that Alec has always had trouble with, although as he gets older, he’s able to learn to compensate for some of them. In many ways Alec is brilliant, he’s been tested and his scores are in the gifted range for most areas (vocabulary, comprehension, math, etc.), except in areas like processing (ability to put pen to paper) he’s way below average. Although truthfully that’s the least of our concerns as most of his difficulties lie with social issues. He has been bullied and picked on by kids since entering the school system. It gets better each year, but he’s still different. He knows it and we’re trying hard to give him the skills to fit in better. It’s a lack of self-awareness of what he is doing, and often times it’s something really annoying to the other kids. Yet ironically, most adults who talk to Alec find him mature, and able to have mature conversations. Adults tend to be more forgiving than his peers of his social blunders. He’s had these aspects since he was just a toddler and we thought he’d grow out of them, but it never happened. So, I’m off, will update when we get back.
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2006/08/15 | Life - kids - asperger's syndrome | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]