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My mom was IM'ing with him. She told him about finding her old Poloroid camera in a box. My son typed, "What the hell is a Poloroid camera???!" in great big green letters. My mom said, "You aren't supposed to use that word!" and he retorted, "Poloroid, Poloroid, Poloroid!"

I love that story. He sounds like a very lovable kid.

All of these posts are great. The best we can also do as we already are is to give them as much of a "normal" life as possible. Once I started doing that with Daniel then he started showing progress. Oh, it has been a long road to hell and back but worth the trip.

If not for many of the teachers who love him I may have given up. But he has come further then I had ever hoped and the best part he has not stopped learning.

I didn't read the article but my step-grandson has Asperger's Syndrome. He's a case.

Nintendo, Pokemon and online gaming are his thing.

Straight A student. Always on the computer or game console. Has total recall. Watches the in-flight progress monitors of altitude, speed, position for the entire flights from London to Houston and back. After the flight he can then quote speed, altitude, projected arrival time, etc when the aircraft was at a particular longitude and latitude.

He just cannot socialize with people outside of the family and doesn't understand the most basic things about human interaction.

He takes everything said to him very literally. Things are either black or white with nothing in between. His sense of humor is also very narrow and he cannot, ( or chooses not to, ) hold a conversation about anything but computer games, Nintendo or Pokemon. We just don't know if he can't or chooses not to.

He's 14 and sometimes it's kinda sad.

Recently however he made us all die laughing. Apparently another boy in school used the expression "son-of-a-b!tch." His dad told him that he shouldn't use that word. A few days later we were teasing him and wouldn't let him talk. He got frustrated and finally said, "If you keep it up I'm going to say "son-of-a-b!tch!" The sad part is that we have no idea if he was displaying a sense of humor or not but it sure made us laugh.