My ASD Child

"Can you help me come up with some ideas on anger-control for my 6 y.o. son with autism (high functioning)? Unexpected moodiness and anxiety are major problems as well." Philosophers have long known that your thoughts can be your own worst enemy. As Shakespeare once said, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Children and teens with Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) are especially vulnerable to such “thinking errors” due to a phenomenon called “mind-blindness." Mind-Blindness can be described as a cognitive deficit in which the child is unable to attribute mental states to self and others. The ability to develop a mental awareness of what is in the mind of someone else is known as the “theory of mind,” which allows a person to attribute behavior and actions to various mental states (e.g., emotions and intentions). Generally speaking, mind-blindness leads to a lack of social insight and an inability to put yourself &q

I have been with my girl friend for about a year now and the "honeymoon is over". A bunch of  months back we started getting into these "tiffs", every month or so, and it would take hours of discussion to get her to be settled, but my explanation attempts of what caused me to "get mad at her" would get completely diluted and of no relevance by then. Having had multiple occurrences, with no recollection of the previous discussions and solutions other than "I had gotten mad at her", I had come up with a good list of "causes" (irritants). During the last encounter, she mentioned something that her mom had said about her childhood/infancy, in that she would fight/reject being held. I remembered this as being a symptom of something and searched the web for it, which led me to pages listing the exact same list of irritant causes I had come up with, being listed as symptoms of  Asperger's Syndrome. These led me to your pages, I ordered a

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