Comments on: Think Outside the Box-with Autism-a Different Box http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/think-outside-the-box/ A first-hand look into the world of Autism, Asperger's Syndrome and Sensory Processing Disorder Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:05:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rookie http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/think-outside-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Rookie Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:24:00 +0000 http://www.eileenparker.com/?p=456#comment-926 Hi Eileen, I was wondering what would have helped you as a young adult when going through the stages from high school --> applying to colleges --> getting a job Hi Eileen, I was wondering what would have helped you as a young adult when going through the stages from high school –> applying to colleges –> getting a job

]]> By: Eileen Parker http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/think-outside-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-912 Eileen Parker Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:52:12 +0000 http://www.eileenparker.com/?p=456#comment-912 Thank you so much for your kind comments. If you have a question about what happens inside my mind or about my experience, please do ask, and I will write a blog post to answer. --Eileen. Thank you so much for your kind comments. If you have a question about what happens inside my mind or about my experience, please do ask, and I will write a blog post to answer.

–Eileen.

]]> By: Dad4Life http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/think-outside-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Dad4Life Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:18:43 +0000 http://www.eileenparker.com/?p=456#comment-911 Eileen, how refreshing to hear your personal perspective and experiences in your posts. I have searched for a very long time for more information that might shed light on the reasons that my oldest son feels, behaves, and thinks the way he does. To be honest, it has been a challenge from the day he was born, and most professionals we encountered have been lacking in their ability to provide us with good advice and any productive help. You would think that it should be a simple matter of visiting a few doctors, being diagnosed, and finding some medical and/or therapeutical help, and on you go to being better off, but the reality is much less optimistic. Sadly, the inability for most mental health practitioners to adequately diagnose, much less treat Asperger's is astonishingly high. This deficit in the health care system has left many of us parents with children with Asperger's pretty much on our own on learning how to positively contribute to the well being of our kids. In fact, a short while back I started writing a blog sharing my parental experiences as a father of two boys in an effort to shed my own source of light and hopefully learn from others, of which I must confess it being enormously rewarding. I really want to thank you for your insight and look forward to spending some time reading your posts and learning from you. Great job! Eileen, how refreshing to hear your personal perspective and experiences in your posts. I have searched for a very long time for more information that might shed light on the reasons that my oldest son feels, behaves, and thinks the way he does. To be honest, it has been a challenge from the day he was born, and most professionals we encountered have been lacking in their ability to provide us with good advice and any productive help. You would think that it should be a simple matter of visiting a few doctors, being diagnosed, and finding some medical and/or therapeutical help, and on you go to being better off, but the reality is much less optimistic. Sadly, the inability for most mental health practitioners to adequately diagnose, much less treat Asperger’s is astonishingly high. This deficit in the health care system has left many of us parents with children with Asperger’s pretty much on our own on learning how to positively contribute to the well being of our kids. In fact, a short while back I started writing a blog sharing my parental experiences as a father of two boys in an effort to shed my own source of light and hopefully learn from others, of which I must confess it being enormously rewarding.

I really want to thank you for your insight and look forward to spending some time reading your posts and learning from you. Great job!

]]> By: CanuckGirl http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/think-outside-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-906 CanuckGirl Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:14:25 +0000 http://www.eileenparker.com/?p=456#comment-906 I am so relieved to have found this website! Almost everything I've read here makes perfect sense to me. I too have always been accused of thinking/acting outside the box when really I would give anything to know what "the box" is. I too think in pictures and remember being suprised finding out that others didn't do the same. I crave information and read (no, ABSORB) everything on every topic from physics to politics to pottery. I see the interconnections in everything. I have lived a life of paralel play wondering why no matter what I do, I never quite fit into social groups. I cope but I long for something different. I long for the connections I see others make so easily, that allude me no matter how nice/normal/friendly I am. I've read books like "the Secret" and try to live my life being a pleasant/fun person/who others would want to have around, yet still cannot change my reality of "friends" forgetting to invite me to events, not calling, etc. If there was a cure, I would jump at the opportunity to be "normal" I am so relieved to have found this website! Almost everything I’ve read here makes perfect sense to me. I too have always been accused of thinking/acting outside the box when really I would give anything to know what “the box” is. I too think in pictures and remember being suprised finding out that others didn’t do the same. I crave information and read (no, ABSORB) everything on every topic from physics to politics to pottery. I see the interconnections in everything. I have lived a life of paralel play wondering why no matter what I do, I never quite fit into social groups. I cope but I long for something different. I long for the connections I see others make so easily, that allude me no matter how nice/normal/friendly I am. I’ve read books like “the Secret” and try to live my life being a pleasant/fun person/who others would want to have around, yet still cannot change my reality of “friends” forgetting to invite me to events, not calling, etc. If there was a cure, I would jump at the opportunity to be “normal”

]]> By: EileenLParker http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/think-outside-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-903 EileenLParker Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:13:33 +0000 http://www.eileenparker.com/?p=456#comment-903 [New Post] Think Outside the Box-with Autism-a Different Box - via @twitoaster http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/thin... [New Post] Think Outside the Box-with Autism-a Different Box – via @twitoaster http://www.eileenparker.com/2010/02/thin…

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