Our Aspergers Teenage Boy

Dad reports:
Read Tommy’s response to my suggesting he teach me something he is learning. (2nd and 3rd paragraph under "Attempted Amputations").

Dad reports:
Tommy apparently had a pretty decent day at school yesterday with the exception of his math class where he is being disrepectful and non-compliant. He doesn’t like math. He gets on the computers and won’t get off when told and speaks to the teacher quite in appropriately. He will end up with an afterschool detention this week and we support that.

Tommy came home yesterday to an empty house. An emergency trip to the pediatrician had us arriving home late. The front door was locked but apparently I had not closed it all the way. As we were racing home Tommy called to explain that he was home and bark “where are you?” He then went on to say “I think that not closing the door all the way could have the wind blow the door open and the dog could escape. Why not close the door all the way and leave it unlocked? I think it’s stupid to lock the door and..” at which point I hung on him. When Tommy called, just before the above dialog, we were relieved he was inside and explained we had some errands to run. Tommy’s afternoon routine was wrecked!

Since he couldn’t garner our attention all afternoon when we got home he whined and cried and yelled at anything and everything.

This morning he is still whining and crying and yelling.

Dad reports:
Tommy had a fantastic day yesterday. I’ve said before that if he grouses at me and gets it out of his system, he seems to have better days.

Yesterday he did his school work, participated in class, did not overreact when he found out he forgot to get a lunch check, when I drop the check to him he caught me in the lobby before I even got signed in and was smiling with almost no ticking and I’d go so far as to say “jolly” as he made an appropriate joke with me, then upon arriving home he took the trash cans down the driveway and went straight to completing his homework. I think aliens have abducted my son!

Dad reports:
Every grunt, utterance, scream and muttering from Tommy this morning has been a complaint of some sort. Not a single positive or happy word has come from his mouth.

I went so far as to point this out to Tommy to which he just stared at me with this almost blank, yet angry look on his face.

Dad reports:
Tommy is trying very hard to wreck this wonderful morning.

Dad reports:

Dungeons and Dragons went very well last night! Tommy for the most part held it together. His biggest problem was talking over people particular the Dungeon Master. The DM would start to describe something and Tommy would immediately interupt with “haha what about if we hahaha.” As he spoke the ends of his sentences would be muffled in laughter and his words would blend together as he mumbled them out. At one point he told a joke that must have been hilarious because as he neared the punchline he was laughing so much that the rest of the room just didn’t get it.

You know he’s having a good time between his head is spinning slightly (not in the nervous circles like when he is tracing circles in the air with his eyes..this is more like the top of his head is tracing a halo) and the grin on his face is ear to ear and his finger is drawing circles slowly in the air.

Overall I had a great time and I know Tommy did too.

Dad reports:
Relatively speaking Tommy is doing very well. So well in fact that we need to start agitating him by bothering him about his eating habits and diet. We’ve observed that he eats from the side of his fork and the side of his spoon so he ends up pouring food down the front of his clothes. Try it. It’s difficult but the shoveling motion from the plate to the mouth takes less effort than scooping the food, turning the utensil, and politely inserting it into your mouth. Maybe Tommy needs to only use chopsticks.