Fresh off the camera - New video from Aspergers Girl

[Dwighk Sr.]

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[Aspergers Girl]

This one is mainly for parents

How your aspergers child may feel... and how to help	LQ | HQ

[Shiroi Tora]

Good video...Educated parents will mean more help for the children.  We have had great success with ABA therapy for my son.  My wife has done a lot of research and applies her knowledge to the education of our son (home schools now) - it also allowed her to target any weak points he had at the time to where they are becoming strengths (Theory of Mind / General Conceptualization / Comprehension / Obsessive Behavior ).

Early intervention and consistent follow through using Positive Reinforcement has done absolute wonders.  My son would be obsessed toward certain activities....we didn't try to nullify his obsessive behavior...we turned it into a strength...academics (just as an addiction is not always bad...so long as it is a positive addiction...say to exercise...reading...studying...etc).  We heartily encouraged him through praise and our unrelenting love...he learned to love learning.

His stubbornness we didn't try to defeat....we just redirected it toward unrelenting drive to succeed - to not quit.  We didn't punish him beyond immediate correction...but merely praised him for his correct behavior.  He could be stubborn...so long as he was stubborn in the right direction...to stubbornly work at his studies...to not be happy with regurgitation of lessons...to not stop until he had understanding of the fundamental concepts.

These were just some examples of redirection through Positive Reinforcement of positive outlets.  We learned this through researching successful application of therapies with Autistic / Asperger's children.  We followed through consistently, and we will continue to follow through, as this has proven to be successful with many Asperger's children...and certainly with our son. 

It all started with our education as parents. 

A crucial point to hit...Well done Asperger's Girl.

[zenemu]

I agree completely, education is the key. Sadly there are still some issues around that and I think their will be for a long time to come.

I think an important point here is that Aspergers Syndrome is also a relatively new diagnosis and that there actually still some debate over the diagnostic criteria.

Aspergers Syndrome didn't become an official diagnosis until sometime around 1994, so it is no wonder that most people are still quite uninformed about the condition and as is common with anything new, there is also some understandable disbelief that this is some new condition to explain people who are a bit socially awkward in an attempt to be politically correct.

Sadly I think this is the crux of the issue where by many people with Aspergers have a poor relationship with their parents. Nobody is perfect and we all bring our own baggage with us, and this is equally true when we become parents. Their seems to be a sense among some people with Aspergers that perhaps their parents should have spotted something earlier or that their teachers should have rung an alarm bell, but at this stage in the game it is hardly surprising that this doesn’t happen.

It is only recently that the actual neurological differences between NT’s Aspies and Autistics are starting to be understood,

I am sure before long as these conditions are better understood, Autism and AS will become much better defined into more sub categories as more young researchers vie to have their names immortalised in medical text books and brain mapping technology improves even more. In fact just recently a study carried out at King College London was carried out using a brain-imaging technique called voxel-based morphometry showed that in people with Aspergers Syndrome have substantially less grey matter in their medial temporal, fusiform and cerebellar regions and in their brainstem and cerebellar regions (the regions associated with facial recognition, emotions and reasoning, than neural typical people, but it also showed increased activity in these areas far above normal. People with Autism have exactly the same neurological differences, but also have a slight decrease in grey matter in the frontal lobe, which hints at the remarkable neurological differences at play here.

I think we are still at a very early point in the Aspergers game and I am sure that wider acceptance and education are the key to helping children and parents come to terms with this condition as early as possible, but that is going to take time.

[Remission]

Personally I don't like being named after some old guy and I'd rather see a general definition of autism with various levels of functioning.  We are all going to have to update our diagnoses and change our website names when the term Aspergers is made obsolete. 

[zenemu]

Personally I don't like being named after some old guy and I'd rather see a general definition of autism with various levels of functioning.  We are all going to have to update our diagnoses and change our website names when the term Aspergers is made obsolete. 

Hans Asperger was quite an interesting guy, a bit of an unsung hero really. The work he did in the 40's in nazi occupied Austria was very impresive and lets not forget he saved on 1,000 children from the nazi eugenics program.

[Remission]

Any more videos please?   

[Aspergers Girl]

Here you go.

A video I made for a conference	LQ | HQ

[Shiroi Tora]

It is so good you have found your passion in life....you know how much I harp on that.  That is something no one can take away from you.  Your video was very good...as always.

By living your life with passion...and the resulting obvious happiness that will show naturally...you will lead others to seek their happiness through their passions also.

Again, I applaud you "Fi".  I really like your attitude and your site.  Well done again.

[Remission]

Here you go.

A video I made for a conference

What was the conference?

Oh, I have been internet-addicted since I was 16.   

[Marco]

The stereotypical view of people with AS is that they are on the heavy side, wear glasses and are not good looking. Because you are so good looking, do you find that people don't believe that you have AS?
This is meant for AsGirl and not remission or that Dwike farmer guy.

[Aspergers Girl]

The stereotypical view of people with AS is that they are on the heavy side, wear glasses and are not good looking. Because you are so good looking, do you find that people don't believe that you have AS?
This is meant for AsGirl and not remission or that Dwike farmer guy.

lol Dwike farmer guy

Most people say I don't have aspergers. They don't know what they're talking about. If thy saw me as a kid they wouldn't even think about it.

[Aspergers Girl]

Boy do I look pasty in this one...

What is Aspergers Syndrome?	LQ | HQ

[Shiroi Tora]

Very well done.  I would think that many would like to hear more about the things in life that have made it tough for you....as well as how you had corrected it.  You are very well adjusted...and you have a very good attitude.  You have spoken some on your past depression and some other problems.  I would be interested in how your attitude changed...was it a result of your depression lifting....or your change of attitude having a lot to do with your depression lifting...etc. 

I would also like to hear more of your successes.  You seem to be very well together...I think more about the good things in your life and the path you took to get there would be inspirational to others.

Your videos are always very interesting.  I would like to see more.

[Aspergers Girl]

I'm tempted to get less serious and more Zelda fanatic.. will show how babyish I really am..