My cousin, Carina, and her husband, Eugene, both live in Florida and are both OTs and I would love for them to post comments to this post with any explanation, suggestions, stories from the patients, etc. I just got off the phone with Carina and we were laughing at how entertaining aspies really are. [...]

We flew to Dallas last week and the kids did fantastic!!! The plane engines didn’t bother The Elder’s ears like I thought it might but he still put his fingers in his ears. He was afraid of crossing the crack between the plane and the skyway and he wouldn’t descend the stairs. [...]

I had an overwhelming therapeutic need to post this excerpt from the following source about Aspie Adults (about 4/5th down the webpage): http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Asperger_syndrome_and_adults?open

Common issues for partnersAn adult’s diagnosis of Asperger syndrome often tends to follow their child’s diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. This ‘double whammy’ can be extremely distressing to the partner who has to [...]

Thanks The Hub for your insightful comments. It is nice for you to contribute to our understanding and I hope that you leave comments often. I know how hard you are working to make this work for us and to be a good father and I appreciate it so much.
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I started doing more research and stumbled across an interesting webpage when I googled “Hyperlexia vs Aspergers” and found this link: http://pediatricneurology.com/autism.htm Now it doesn’t give much insight on the difference between the two, but it did go further in describing expanded ASD which are not included in the DSM-IV, which basically means they are [...]