puppypusher, this is my granddaughter! she has Asperger’s syndrome.We discovered it very early however. She was 6 months old and because I had worked with autism for 15 years I spotted the tale tale symptoms. She sounds more severe than your son however.
She didn’t use language until she was 2 years old. She has oddity’s both in social skills and the real/versus fantasy world. Obessesions with dolphins. etc. She may or may not graduate in 2010 but will never be able to work in the real world.
So sorry for your Granddaughter.It’s very tough watching a child grow up when you have hopes that they would one day accomplish something good in this world and it can be damn frustrating at times.
My son has sociolization issues in that he hates living home for Anything.He actually gets very uncomfortable if he has to do anything in public unless my wife and I are with him.
Since he’s been seeing his psycologist things are improving if slowly.He’s also got a life skills coach to assist him in becoming more sociolly adaptable.He has even learned to cook for himself and he does that better than I can.The only thing we need to improve on is his grooming.Even that is improving slowly.