Re: Re: Crybaby   
     By: NANCY BACKUS to GARY PERKINS on Mon Jun 13 2011 01:07 pm   
      
    > And Asperger's is a spectrum, not a specific... at the top of the   
    > autistic spectrum.  I don't envy you your ride.  Your son might have it   
    > too?  There seems to be some evidence that it runs in families...   
      
   Autism is a spectrum, Asperger's is a specific form at the top of the spectrum.   
   I think officially it's still not considered true autism, but it's commonly   
   accepted to be...something like that, it's confusing.. :p  Some people would   
   say that high functioning autism and Asperger's are the same, others say it's   
   different, I dunno.   
      
   I believe it if it does have a genetic component.  To be honest, my mother was   
   the first to point out we may have a case of autism.  Once I did the research   
   and talked with her about it, she made a comment that I might also be on the   
   spectrum.  She can't remember specifics from my childhood, and if I were on the   
   spectrum I'd be so high up it wouldn't matter much if I were, but I would   
   suppose having two parents with autism would greatly increase the odds of both   
   children having it.   
      
   Yesterday we had a pretty good day.  Today, I was feeling ill most of the day   
   and pretty much stayed on the couch.  The kids woke before me (fairly early for   
   some reason) and got into the kitchen.  For some reason, everytime they pull   
   chips out, they feel the need to scatter them from one end of the room to the   
   other.  That's pretty much how the entire day went, they trashed the place.   
      
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