Case Study of a Child with Autism

Often times though, he would blame his lack of involvement on his low self-esteem. He periodically would have some involvement such as times when my grandma would provide him money to take me for activities so he could get to know the girl I was becoming. However, I never received the same involvement from him, any time I began to self-disclose I would hit a brick wall. This would often resulting in me crying to someone, typically my mother or grandmother, about how upset it made me and further drove a wedge in our relationship because I never would talk to my dad about my frustrations with our relationship but rather other people. Because of the lack of involvement on his end it was very difficult to reach the intimacy stage, however with a little probing from my grandparents and my mother we slowly reached it around the time I was six or seven.

159) Studs, parents had a more challenging youth. The result was that Lonigan really took much of his life for granted and his parents really were largely absent in his life. They wanted what was best but really did not invest in keeping Young Lonigan out of trouble. Toward the end of the book, his father lamented that he did not put William to work all summer painting. Things may have turned out very differently for Studs if he did not have the ability to run free and get in to trouble.

Kurt was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a child and had to take medication for this symptom. Kurt’s family life wasn’t very happy. Kurt loved his mother more than anything in the world, his father he was not so fond of. Kurt wasn’t entertained by sports; his father always wanted him to be interested in sports, but Kurt never approved. He had a hard life in is “father-son relationship”, in his documentary “About A Son”, Kurt talks about his father never approving of what he did, never proud.

He never prepared himself for the fact that one day they would possibly take care of him the same way they would take care of their children. Throughout the movie Sam?... ... middle of paper ... ...imagined that they would do the same for him one day. His daughters Kate and Carrie would treat him like a five year old. They would try to talk to him very slow because they thought he could not comprehend anything they were saying.

He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose upon him. Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom is a boy of Huck’s age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life of adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer’s Gang because he feels that doing so will allow him to escape the somewhat boring life he leads with the Widow Douglas. Unfortunately, such an escape does not occur.

Mrs. Casper isn't a very caring mother as she asks her son "you haven't got a fag on you, have you love?" not expecting a very high standard from her son, not minding about his smoking habit and not caring about his health and a safe lifestyle. Billy also suffers from verbal abuse and also physical from his mother "We'll see whether you're going or not, you cheeky young bugger." Mrs. Casper doesn't care about speaking to her son in a rude way, but when Billy swears to her she finds it very offensive and tells him to apologize so she is allowed to speak to him like that but Billy is not. He faces abuse from his mother as she tries to grab Billy, as he is isn't doing what he is told, as well as that she threatens him "I'll bloody murder you when I get hold of you!"

For example, I had one aunt who was very cautious of her child and I understand you need to be cautious when he is an infant but as he grew older he would be treated like a baby. He was not allowed to eat by himself, even though he had the capability to pick a spoon and fork. His exploration was limited to only his home. It was not until I had the opportunity to babysit him and I taught him how to eat using spoon t an early age and read to him occasionally. His father also did not like the way the mother treating him as a baby but he couldn’t do much because he would work all day.

Worst of all, his step-father harassed him since he was little and he was incapable of expressing himself about the harassment to his mother. That's why Bone had no choice but to adapt the behavior and mistakes of those who surrounded him in order to pull through life. Basically, Bone shouldn't be blamed for his actions when he really never experienced the feeling of having a true family to support him or enlighten him with the essentials and aspects of life or even how to face obstacles an individual may encounter. Unlike ... ... middle of paper ... ...k the difference between right and wrong was obvious. For them i guess what was right was what you could get away with and what was wrong was what you couldn't, but it made me feel stupid that i didn't know it too."

Also another reason why Edison is my favorite scientist is because he started with nothing. He was pulled out of school by his mother because the teacher said he couldn’t focus and wasn’t very smart and couldn’t learn so his mom decided to homeschool him. Edison loved to read after his mother taught him how to read and after that he was always carrying a book in his pocket. Also Edison started to have hearing problems at a young age which seems like would of held him back some but it never did. Edison was kind of cheated when his teacher told him that he was not smart and couldn’t learn.

Because Faulkner’s behavior was unpredictable, often indicating that he was entirely self-absorbed in his own ideas and work, others found him to be distant. Those closest to Faulkner—his daughter, Jill, Phil Stone, and even Joan Williams—do not offer a portrayal of him that objects to his being erratic and distant. Probably the most poignant moment with Jill Summers is when she tells the story of asking her father not to drink before her birthday. His response was to remind her that Shakespeare’s daughter was never remembered by anyone. Although Summers relates the other facts of her father’s short-comings with little display of emotion, her face appeared pained after this story.