With a little more patience, a little more, love, you can, get your child with the autism spectrum disorders socialized properly, translated…
When my son was only three, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s, the doctor told me, there is the “rule of TWO” when raising a child with the condition, because once he’d had a thought that formed in his mind, it would be, next to impossible to change, so, as I teach him the first time, I must, teach him right; and, for children without Asperger’s you may only need to repeat yourself five times, but with a child with Asperger’s, you may need to tell him the rules, five hundred, or a thousand times even.
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Back then I thought, thank heavens, that Asperger’s Syndrome is still treated, what the doctor saying is that all I needed is, patience, I shall, have duels with you then, at most, I may only be, repeating myself, a thousand times!
And now, my son’s in the third grade, I’d picked him up from school that day, and, bumped into his former classmate, as I was, working hard, trying, to SHOVE his backpack inside the storage on the back of my scooter, he’d started, holding conversations with this female classmate, a bit later, she’d said she was, waiting for someone, he’d told her, “then, it’s best, that you go into the security guard’s office and wait, don’t wait out here!”
I was so moved in the moment, my son is, such a warmhearted Pisces, as I’d, taught him that if I’m late in picking him up, then, he should, go to the security guard’s office to wait for me there, it’s not safe wandering about. And, he’d, shown this level of care and concern toward a girl whom he wasn’t that close with!
with proper socialization and professional help, the child can become like this…
After school, as I parked the scooter, he’d, slung his backpack on his back, and, carried my bag, I’d asked him, isn’t it heavy? He’d told me no. As I’d, parked, I’d, taken my bag from him, and asked again, “is it, really, not heavy for you?”, he’d replied shyly, “actually, it was, but I just, want to, help you, carry it.”
The doctor was, absolutely, right back then, the children diagnosed with Asperger’s can be trained! And, the ups and downs in the process of training, of teaching a child with Asperger’s, only the parents of children with the condition can understand.
The children with Asperger’s needed the companionship from the parents, and a pair of ears that are, willing, to, hear them out, I hope, this article, can inspire the other parents, with children who are, diagnosed with Asperger’s at home.
And so, this, breaks the stereotype of how autism looks in a child, because, we’re, led to believe, that children with autism are, often, aloof and uncaring, but, with a little more socialization, they can, be “normalized”, and, they can, adapt well, to their surrounding environments too.