When he was eight years old, your son Ben was identified as having Asperger's Problem, a high performing function of Autism. My wife and I realized that when Ben was just three, four and five years of age he turned quickly frustrated because he didn't know how to use words to convey what he needed. For example, he'd uphold a door he could not open and protest and cry until someone discovered what he needed. We started to say the phrase he needed to state and ask him to repeat it. Then the door would open or do whatever he needed after he would repeat it correctly.
For this same time frame, we began to observe how sensitive he was to loud noise. His mom and dad lived near an Air Force Base, and he'd cover his ears when a plane would …show more content…
fly over.
It was also at this time that his eating became somewhat of an issue.
He would eat peanut butter, cold cereal and jelly sandwiches, and little else. Once my wife Sue insisted he tries a chunk of scrambled egg, and he vomited. She did not try that. Bill wouldn't eat spaghetti or any rice. We finally noticed that the same was damaged as his sense of hearing. I feel the Autism literature includes the fact many Asperger Quotient (and maybe adults) have problems with the feelings of reading, experience, touching, and sampling.
Dan was still undiscovered as having Asperger's Syndrome once we observed these peculiarities. These were some of the behaviors he displayed that people did not recognize at the time.
He had no idea the right way to keep a crayon or a pencil while Ben started to preschool. He would support the top of the pad by the eraser end and try to write. Many children seem to know how to keep a crayon or pad by watching a parent or brother keeping it the right way. We now know why he did not know how to do this relatively simple thing. Autistic or Asperger Quotient test are totally dedicated to self. They do not appear to recognize things happening around them as normal children
do.
Ben was obsessed with small things. The instructor did not need the children to carry toys from home, while he started kindergarten. Mary always had a little car in his pocket he went. His mother began to '"frisk" him each morning before school. One particular day after she had eliminated the toy from his pocket, she pointed out that through the day he had broken his pad into two pieces. He then had something little to hold on to. We did not understand this behavior whatsoever at the time, but the little toys offered him a feeling of security just like Linus and his umbrella in the cartoon strip since discovered.