Our Aspergers Teenage Boy

Tommy has been a bit of a pain today but nothing major. Now I just need to talk him into settling down somewhere calmly.

Tommy is in a “nobody is going to tell me what to do” mood on a day when I need cooperation from all of the children. There’s trouble brewing.

Tommy woke before Mom so instead of taking his medicine to her (like he is instructed), he chose to play on her computer. He made the mistake of getting into a chat with someone he didn’t know. The disturbing part of it is the first thing he did with this person he didn’t know was turn on the video and audio parts of MSN. After doing that he asks “who is this?” to which I replied “answer the phone” (yes, fortunely it was me; he didn’t recognize my msn name) and we had the talk about Internet safey (again), lying, and impersonation. He was reminded that he is not to use the computer unless he expressly has permission to do so.