all autistic people are high function or all autistc people are low functon

You hit the nail on the head, I would never push either of my children, but I would like them to achieve something (but only if they are capable).  Hopefully enough to gain a decent job when they are older.  My daughter is brilliant at sport, running especially, she can run for hours.  She is also amazing at dancing, she invents moves she has never seen before and can be so fluid.  The problem is she is so anti-social that joining any group to help her progress is not possible.  I have tried swimming, tennis, dance, football, I think there were some others along the way.  She just can't tolerate them. We are trying the dance again at the minute.

I must admit, it is very frustrating.  How do I stop her from going so hyperactive you think she is going to run into a wall (sorry I know she is as she has done it twice before, both creating very large eggs on her head!), or that she is going to hurt me or my son.  She can be quite terrifying, what causes it, it just happens, one minute eveything is ok, the next it's like having a bull in the house and I am the matador, about to be pounced on!

I cannot understand even though I try, I am missing something, but am not sure what it is.  i feel as thpough I should know why she is suddenly like this, but as she doesn't tell me anything along these lines, it is so tricky.

Interesting comments about your son.  My daughter is about to have a test done due to similar problems, have you heard of mursurling? (bad spelling maybe?) If a child has this, they can use coloured filters or a combination of to help them read the writing.  Worksheets can be photocpied onto coloured paper (according to their needs) so some might be blue, another red for example.

Apparently someone with this can feel the text is jumping on the page, and as with my daughter, when reading the novels rather than picture books like Julia Donaldson's, the two pages of text amalgamate and cannot be decifered.  She manages to read books like Tom Gates as it has doodles all the way through, but she struggles to read any other novel.  Our school can do the test, or speak to the optician as they can refer you.  Worth a look?

Do your children ever get violent? 

Hopefully we will get there in the end, it just seems a very very very long way away!

CJ out...

You hit the nail on the head, I would never push either of my children, but I would like them to achieve something (but only if they are capable).  Hopefully enough to gain a decent job when they are older.  My daughter is brilliant at sport, running especially, she can run for hours.  She is also amazing at dancing, she invents moves she has never seen before and can be so fluid.  The problem is she is so anti-social that joining any group to help her progress is not possible.  I have tried swimming, tennis, dance, football, I think there were some others along the way.  She just can't tolerate them. We are trying the dance again at the minute.

I must admit, it is very frustrating.  How do I stop her from going so hyperactive you think she is going to run into a wall (sorry I know she is as she has done it twice before, both creating very large eggs on her head!), or that she is going to hurt me or my son.  She can be quite terrifying, what causes it, it just happens, one minute eveything is ok, the next it's like having a bull in the house and I am the matador, about to be pounced on!

I cannot understand even though I try, I am missing something, but am not sure what it is.  i feel as thpough I should know why she is suddenly like this, but as she doesn't tell me anything along these lines, it is so tricky.

Interesting comments about your son.  My daughter is about to have a test done due to similar problems, have you heard of mursurling? (bad spelling maybe?) If a child has this, they can use coloured filters or a combination of to help them read the writing.  Worksheets can be photocpied onto coloured paper (according to their needs) so some might be blue, another red for example.

Apparently someone with this can feel the text is jumping on the page, and as with my daughter, when reading the novels rather than picture books like Julia Donaldson's, the two pages of text amalgamate and cannot be decifered.  She manages to read books like Tom Gates as it has doodles all the way through, but she struggles to read any other novel.  Our school can do the test, or speak to the optician as they can refer you.  Worth a look?

Do your children ever get violent? 

Hopefully we will get there in the end, it just seems a very very very long way away!

CJ out...