Dad reports:
Tommy really turned it on for the doctor. Got the addition of a new antidepressant. Gave a slight indication that he may try to become obstinate about taking his medication.
Tommy in the first 15 minutes managed to demonstrate the highlights of his attitudes and behaviors for the past 6 weeks with sassiness, negative attitudes, noncompliance, disrespect and rolling on the floor.
Dad reports this morning:
I gave Tommy his medicine, left him a note that his mother would be back soon and that I was at a meeting and he was to walk the dog. I returned and he claimed he had walked the dog.
Tommy is making moaning “retarded” noises right now.
Yesterday he groused around the house refusing to cut the grass until his mother and I suggested that he needed a different chore. We traded cutting the grass once a week for cleaning both toilets twice a week and he readily accepted..well, after trying to negotiating to do toilets one week grass the next and so forth. We (the grandfather took the boys and I) rushed off to the gun show and had a good time. Tommy was warned not to beg for anything so he saved it until the very end in the parking lot to beg for a keychain made from a bullet. His mother would have killed me. Tommy has begged for the gun show because he thought he was annoying his mother (which he was) but he needs to know that just asking to see an R rated movie, or go to something we disapprove of is not always going to get our goat. After the gun show we returned to the pool and only had moderate anger when it came time to leave.
Asperger's Disorder is a milder variant of Autistic Disorder.
... In Asperger's Disorder, individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood.
...Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behavior.
... leaves no space for age appropriate, common interests. ...
We will document our trials, tribulations, good times and efforts to give our son a normal life and perhaps help other Asperger parents in the process.