Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    
Thank-you Steve and Rudy for an amazing two weeks. While a new
discussion starts today in Inkwell, this topic will remain open
indefinitely, for more discussion.
  

    
Many thanks to you, Rudy, and to everyone who participated.
  

    
Thank you Rudy and Steve.  You gave me a lot to think about.  
  

    
Looking forward to picking up a copy of Aspergirls, and looking
through that lens at my world for a while.  I think its going to to be
very revealing, perhaps more so than is really comfortable.
  

    
My daughter, who has AS, is eager for her copy to arrive.
  

    
I should add that she is sixteen, and this book is a big deal for her
right now, so thanks are doubly due to you, Rudy; you are making a
difference.
  

    

This has been a rich and vibrant conversation.  Thank you, Steve and Rudy.

I, too, hope the conversation can be continued on the Well.
  

    
Hi Rudy, I plan to get your book on aspergirls,  I have a 17 year old
daughter and can use all the advice you have.  She has received help
since she has been 2.  She was officially diagnosed a couple years ago
... basically without going through all the background of what she has
done and been through, today she is a senior in high school, she is in
regular classes but has a "safe" room where she comes back you when she
needs help etc.  She is lonely in school most of the time..very few
people are friendly etc.  She had a "regular" friend for two years and
now unfortunately senior year she has deserted her.  She doesn't sound
like you = you sound like you were more self-sufficient , having held
jobs etc., and not even knowing you had aspergers until you were older.
 I want her to be able to hold down a job and go to college.  Her
problem is she cannot accept the fact she as a disability, and never
wants anyone to  know, even though when you talk to her after awhile
you know something is amiss.

I am at a crossroads and don't want her home with me always, nor does
she want that.
Any advice. Thanks. K
  

    
I don't think Rudy is still monitoring this conference (last activity
was last November).

You might want to ask in <parenting>.
  

    
I was reading recently that there's several organizations set up to
train the autistic to work in areas like computer testing, because
they're very meticulous. 
  

    
Hey Kaaala, I just now read this.  I have a seventeen-year-old
daughter with Asperger's too, although she has been accepting of her
diagnosis all along -- it actually came as a relief to know her
differences were not attributable to character flaws.  For awhile
there, though, it did seem as if she might never leave her room again.

Now she is flourishing.  Sometimes autistic kids just need more time
than others (and more of a cocoon) to work through their difficulties,
and adolescence seems particularly hard for them, but they do emerge. 
I wish you and your daughter hope and cheer and all the best.
  

    
"Sometimes autistic kids just need more time than others (and more of
a cocoon) to work through their difficulties"

Amen to that. This is my experience too.
  

    
I just wanted to pop in here and give Rudy a plug for some new stuff
she is producing.  She is a rather eclectic human and along with her
writing and speaking on Aspergers, she has also written children's
fiction and done stage and video work as a commediene.

Currently she is writing, perfroming, and recording her own music. 
It's an interesting sound.  You should check it out.

You can access her work here:

<http://www.rudysimone.net/Albums.html>
  

    
I thought I would bring this discussion up to the top of the list. 
People who are reading the discussion of Steve's book may also be
interested in this.
  

    
Good idea. Quite relevant!
  

    
Love this book.
  

    
new psued
  

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