My (limited) understanding of appropriate social development is that it's optimal when done with like peers, not just age but emotional/intellect. If your son is PG he wouldn't have much chance to interact with intellectual peers of his age, just by sheer statistics. If the PE is such a big issue, do you know much about his auditory profile? My DD, also 8, has something going on with auditory issues. (She’s EG-ish but now we’re not so sure since with our new knowledge of older test scores, it looks like low short-term memory calculated into her full-scale would have suppressed her IQ). Always has, ever since she was a baby. It’s very noticeable and predictable. When we brought her to a "specialist" in K, he just said her hearing was extremely sensitive, so when she's in loud or echoing places, or with alot of screeching kids, even when it’s outside, it's almost like she can't hear anything, and anyway it seems to really agitate her. But she knows enough now not to cover her ears or act out “like a baby”. So she seems to act really fidgety, talks really loudly, or just spaces out. But the choices and evidence of what to do about it, besides obviously avoiding situations or wearing ear plugs, is controversial not to mention sounds pretty expensive. We were told to have her tested again the future if this still interfered, which it does. Though she’s gained alot of tolerance just with maturity. But we're hoping it's included with the neuropsych testing this spring.
With my DD, she gets nervous when it’s a bunch of typical-mall-sort-of girls (not, for instance, girls she’ll meet in a “worm exploration’ class at the nature center) especially if all the girls are pretty glitzy or Justin-Bieber crazed, that seems to make DD nervous...but who wouldn’t be nervous LOL.
I’ve tried to read as much as I can about AS/Aspersers and I’m always confused, as I am when I read checklists for nonverbal learning disability, and even ADHD-inattentive. The higher the intelligence, the more unique the person, and not enough of them to study or have other people experience! There is the 2E issue, and I believe there is something there with my DD, but for her I think it’s more a dyslexia type of thing, plus the auditory and sensory (she also has visual issues).
If only these kids were more gathered together and not so spread out, they could OPTIMIZE SOCIALLY with each other...well at least if they stay the course and find their place in the world, they’ll likely find each other at least when they’re a bit older. But their childhoods certainly are different than typical because they are so different. We love them though : -)
Last edited by bzylzy; 03/12/12 05:19 PM.
