needs to stay in the year 2000!

No idea why this article circulated again needs to stay in 2000!

Started to read
"Raising a developmentally different child is a challenge for most parents. The challenge begins when parents first learn that their child is not “normal.”"

Neurologically different minded children need not be a challenge if understand, allowed and accepted... the way I see it everyone is able, we all have challenges, but the biggest problem continues to be stereo typing and others feeling they have a right without fully understanding to get others to conform!

Parents please embrace your child for who they are, not for your own expectations.... as not not "nornmal" this is where I refused to read on... everyone of us born is a unique individual and if your unable to understand this I feel so sorry for the children... growing up on the autism spectrum, not knowing and no one allowing me at times devastating.... Aspergers Parallel Planet, read from those of us on the autism spectrum, the only ones that really understand and helped me so much...

Negative articles like this I find insulting and damaging... while there is some good information in article it also discriminates throughout..

"sudden, inexplicable mood changes; newly observed regressive behavior (clinging, bedwetting, separation/school anxiety); excessive tantrumming; changes in sleeping or eating patterns; a general lack of motivation or enthusiasm about anything; or any other symptoms/behaviors that don’t “sit well” with you."

A misunderstood difference to me
i.e. a child starting school no one realizes the child is playing up because the noise alone is too much for them to cope, no one notices how the noise affects the child (sensory overload) the child runs, screams and instead of being taken into a quite place to recover they get told off.. Anxiety exposure kicks in, anger / frustration, withdraw, over load, meltdown, shut down! To a point I have backed out of society in order to cope, I want to be a part of your world but change I find hard, which affects most of us on the autism spectrum, too much wrong pressure can scatter our thoughts until our routines are back in place. Often the ones we judge wrongly are the ones in need of the most help!

I have been there I know and happy to help if I can www.asplanet.info not easy for any of us, but those of us on the autism spectrum continually get locked out of life itself!