Living With Asperger´s Syndrome Disorder

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Randy is 12 years old. He is a son of a quad family, which consist of student mom, employed father, and 14 years old sister. He is 7th Grade, he was held back this year. He has Asperger's Syndrome disorder. His parent equality shares his education supports. His aunts, phonics' teacher, and old mother of autistic son they both provide help and support for Randy's family, as they need. There is nothing to do with his sister except sharing interests. Randy's family described as a democratic family that everyone has a voice. Where children are able to explore their curiosity and creativity, and parent is to be respected and advised. As a family, they like to discuss ideas, interests, and recreation. They have religion basics where they go to church every Sunday, and the kids should pass the communions. Moreover, parents teach their kids love of self and other, positive outlook on life, charity to others, kindness, and helpfulness. And also the importance of being educated; being formal or informal; keep learning through life, mother said. They deal with problems together; keep together, so they support each other. They speak freely about issues that comes hardships; communicate problems so they can work on solving together. About recreation, as a family they enjoy kids' movies, shopping, walking, and party. The parent often let Randy or his sister spend fun times with their friends. Although Randy's grandma likes children, they rarely visit her or their other extended family because they live far away; they meet 3 - 4 times a year. Randy's mother described him as very low self-esteem. It is easy to hurt him, or make him cry. He would cry for any bad comment from anybody. He would cry of killings views whether humans and animals. ... ... middle of paper ... ...d in the real space, and also they knew to teaching, so this will reduce the confidence are given to them. Then she liked the suggestion of having a small community for parents who are alike, so they can share there conflicts and exchange the experiences. In conclusion, at the end of the interview, Randy's mother restated the importance of reaching out for help from other family and professions. And she added," Bottling up the problems makes it more difficult on family." The mother also said that she liked the questions and the way of questioning as well. It helped her to think about what she really want, and to see her son improvement and progresses form the day of knowing about his disability up today. It also helped her to see her family interaction improvement with Randy, and she grateful about where they were, and where they currently are as family.

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