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My Only Grandson is high Functioning Aspergers, but it took him to almost commit suicide due to sensory overload of 500 kids yelling talking all at once etc at a very good academic school. they found him curled up in a ball on a landing of a stairwell in the school.
Getting an aspergers or autistic spectrum child “statemented” is it its self a hard slog for parents, they don’t diagnose lightly. because the spectrum is so wide and varied, for instance they don’t understand facial expressions, or personal space, all sound ( in my grandsons case at least) is magnified to an unbearable volume, he also has hyper mobility with his joints.
Camhs are amazing people I have to say, when I went into a meeting with them and explained my grandsons particular issues in an understandable way (laymans terms) as opposed to psycho-babble and without quoting mental health psychology it made things easier.
I’m Proud to be the grandmother of my Aspergers grandson he is a wonderfully caring gentle young man of 18 who has surpassed everyones expectations with regard to education, and starts a course doing Forensic science this coming September.
one plus side of HFA is that they have this incredible attention to detail, some call it obsessive behaviour? but when applied in the right way they become meticulous in their work and become very high achieversAwww Laine. Hugs. xxx is he ok now?
oh Gawd yes! tinsel!!!!
was just that first couple of months at senior academy, my daughter home schooled him for a while (not bloody cheap) as he hadn’t yet been statemented, but once that process was done (and I have to say I couldn’t be prouder of his mother my daughter for the hell she went through, ) they found him a place in a higher school which didn’t have over 500 kids all changing lessons at the same time, and it also offered a “quiet room” for pending meltdowns if the sensory part happened to overload. he’s an amazing young man and won student of the year at his college this year. and i was guest of Honour woohoo! although as said before they do have this not knowing boundaries and introduced me to his tutor as “my Nanna, the Gilf ” I wanted the ground to open up at that point lol
all the staff and kids love him, and he himself has been open about his HFA they wrote to my daughter and said he had opened their eyes to the sheer hell they go through, and thought him a very polite calm and generous young man
Ok….Im filling up. Bless his heart. He sounds like a very fine young man, one you are all rightly proud of.
Re the quiet room….yes! That is one thing they 100% need.
Im really glad hes ok now. Sounds like he has a fantastic mum and nan who would fight to the death for him. xx
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