**AUTISM / ASPERGERS SUPPORT GROUP**

[doll*obsession]

A safe place for all members with friends or family with ASD

Come and have a cuppa, share your joys, and vent your problems with other people who understand.

[krazy.kiwi]

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Great news chit_chat :-x:-x:-x:-x

[mapalarkin]

Im sorry to hear you have had such a dreadful time with the doctor chit chat.Sometimes I think they need to go back to med school and learn about compassion.But Im glad your pead has come through for you.Hope it all goes well for you and your family now.

Tomorrow is our visit with Dr Sturgeon for Nicholas's assesmant.
And Darcy has gotten not 1 but 2 birthday invites.He is so used to not getting any he left 1 of them in his bag for a week.And he started walking home again with his freind.So far so good.Cheers all

[sheepy_1-4]

phew.... glad that that is all sorted for you chitty...
I would love to help, but am now off to choir camp for the next 4 days, can you wait till then?

[bella_again]

Thankyou everyone:-x

Kylie I'll be in touch when you get back 🙂 Thankyou! Have fun with the boys thou 🙂

mapalarkin good luck with Nicholas's assessment I really hope it all goes well for you

It's wonderful Darcy is getting some invites to parties, that just shows the support you have at school but also that his ability to make friends is really growing. That's fantastic, you must be so proud!

[mapalarkin]

Evening All

Well today we had our first appointment with Dr Sturgeon.What a lovely man.today was just lots of questions and watching Nicholas play.He was surprised that the neo-natologists had never done a behavoural testing on him when he was 6 to 12 months old.Apparantly it is done on all premmi babys but Nicholas has never had it.So thats the next step.A 2 hour behaivour test.That will be fun lol as long as all the bats are put away.thats in 4 weeks time.We are doing 4 weeks of speech first so Dr Sturgeon can asses that as well.

Have a good weekend all.

[aphroditebathandbody]

I received a letter today from the education department saying they have accepted my boy into an ED school as soon as a vacancy comes up. The school he has been accepted into is only 25mins away. 🙂

[mapalarkin]

Well I did it.I drove all the way to Cundletown and back anxiety and all.406 kilometers.I havent been to my grandparents house since 1991 and were they shocked to see me.At 92yrs old I'm lucky I didnt give them a heart attack.but I've started on a new journey in dealing with the anxiety and I'm going to keep going.

[krazy.kiwi]

Wow, a lot of good news lately. :-x

I have to add my own now:

My boy is currently sitting on the sofa, listening to hard rock music (quietly for a change :O:O) and actually doing his homework!!! And his homework tonight is to write a story - he doesn't "do" creative writing.

[bella_again]

Oh that is so great Kiwi:-x

well I'm gonna spoil the good new section rofl. I tried to get DD into a skills based community day program, guess what not enough funding and no one wants to provide it. The hume DHS doesn't answer phones lol, scope won't provide speech or OT services unless I have private funding. Even if I obtained that there are no workers so its a 12 month wait or more.

The private ones are just as booked out. Whats the point? I think I'll do some research and make up my own programs. I'm so sick of underfunded services that promise the world and deliver nothing...

[krazy.kiwi]

😞 that's no good.

I know how you feel about doing it yourself. It's a pity we aren't closer, we could all get our kids together for their very own social skills program.