Assessing the needs of adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) in order to make appropriate and sufficient provision presents a number of challenges. In this paper, Chris Mitchell, who leads an Asperger-specific team in an adult social care department, identifies some of the issues arising. He ...
Insights from a spatial understanding are also used to consider the process of the research, including an application of the social model of disability to participatory research involving adults with Asperger's syndrome. My original contribution to knowledge is that I have demonstrated that people ...
This parenting style often leads to higher levels of creativity in children, but there is little self-control. These children, whose parents typically don’t set boundaries, tend to have a sense of entitlement. This can create one-sided interpersonal relationships. When adults, childr...
As they grow into adolescents, they begin to develop a body image and to form an identity of their own, separate from their parents. As these growing children and adolescents interact with the outside world, they meet the everyday challenges of life and learn to deal with them. ...
Completely different personalities accompanied by Asperger’s and ADHD. In the past, he wasn’t nice to me and i wasn’t to him, and that has lead to resentment and animosity between us. It has gotten better as we have gotten older, but we literally have nothing in common. If there’...
Social stories provide a framework for how to deal with real life situations for kids who struggle with issues related to Asperger's, ASD and social issues.
Adults with narcissistic parents need to be aware of the risks of giving them access to their grandkids. Narcissism 11 Min Read Why Recovering From the Narcissist in Your Life Is So Hard Recovery from a narcissist can be more difficult than other relationships partly due to ...
Baker: I feel like many people struggled with the abuse of substances when they were adults, and I think that lends a gravity to them that is easily dismissed or obscured when you use substances as a child. That sort of falls into the paradigm of a debaucherous adolescent, sort of an ir...
Chris Packham,talked about having Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. It was a rare snapshot into the life of an adult with Asperger's – and especially so as Packham only realised this in his 40s. Packham said he "spent 30 years on the telly trying [his] best to act normal." ...
Unfortunately, that is the truth that tens of millions of adults with autism and Asperger’s face every day. Now imagine that even if you one means or the other find yourself in that lucky minority, you still have just a 9% probability of finding a companion, falling in love, and gettin...