: About Me

I am a 40 year old mother of 3. I have been married for almost 14 years. I have a 12 year old son with Aspergers, and I have learned that many people do not know about Aspergers, and that is why I wrote my first article about my son. And I have a beautiful, wonderful 10 year old daughter, she likes to watch out for her big brother. She loves to take care of everyone. My first son died shortly after he was born and would have been almost 14 years old, that is what my next article is about and I am working on that right now.
I have a Medical Assistant degree, but I am working from home as a child care provider right now, so I can be with my children more.

My passion is ...

helping children with special needs and their parents

I know too much about ...

Does any one really know too much about anything?

My parents always told me ...

be respectful and mind your manners

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my children

Why I write ...

because I have all this information in my head and the more I write the more I learn

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I love the sound track to the musical "Wicked"

My first job ...

the easter bunny ( 15 years old )

My best moment ...

receiving my degree for medical assistant at age 35 with my children watching

My inspiration ...

my mom

Parenting & Pregnancy > Special Needs Effective parenting of a child with Asperger's syndrome

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Aspergers: A mother's story At first glance you would never know that my child was autistic. He was just diagnosed at age 12 years old with Aspergers syndrome (a mild form of autism). This has made life for my son a lot easier, because before the diagnosis we spent years trying to understand why he would do the things he did or why was it so hard to get him to understand simple directions, when he could explain in great detail how and why each dinosaur was different. Sometimes he could not explain his actions. He was 3 years old when we first noticed that he struggled with simple every day...

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