Re: living with a person with a disability
 

My mum who is 47 has ended up living with me as she is epileptic and suffers from grandmal siezures,,

Ist all wrong and iv had enough of it, my fammilly dont help which means its me and my fiance having to sort it all out ...

I am at my witts end...

respect to all those whos child is disabled, i would find that very hard to deal with..

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I'm partially sighted and getting worse - we're all havng to learn to adjust to this having had a couple of potentially serious accidents lately as my vision deteriorates. Mind you, means everyone around me tidies up after themselves now!

My other half has Aspergers. He's highly functional and has a job with a lot of responsiblity. We ignore him when he's having a 'turn', or tell him to belt up!

Re: living with a person with a disability
 

I work in a school for Boys with Emotional & Behavioural difficulties; this includes Boys with Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, ADD, ODD & alike... All the lads at school have a 'high accademic potential;' meaning most of them are taking GCSE's in year 9/10 & starting their 'A-Levels' etc...

They too can be very destructive; both metally and physically & they are hard work, but that being said, my job can be one of the most rewarding in the world when it all goes right :!:

Besides, it wouldn't do for everyone to be the same would it :?:

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It's about putting people in the right situations. He's a great role model for how Asperger's can be used to it's best advantage. Being an opeational commander's been quite challenging for him, but he's about to begin training to be a forensic fire investigator, which appeals to his nerdy tendencies. He'll get a load of letters after his name and get to play with fire for living - what more could a bloke want?!

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My mum and her brothers all have mental disabilities from their childhood. Her brothers can drive me mad but I have to remember not to get wound up about it, even if conversations are like groundhog day.. One is 100% certain he took a ferry to Birmingham, some things can make you laugh :)
My mum is bipolar. She's normally too high or too low, if she's not there she's heading towards one of them fairly obviously. After a severe low, she's ended up with her legs pinned, elbow plated and all sorts, she walks a but funny now she can walk again, and people give her strange looks. I can pretty much cope with everything apart from the strange looks.

They can drive me mad to the point where I end up snapping at someone who probably didn't deserve it.

I know how hard it is to live with a parent who is disabled, I have nothing but admiration for parents who look after disabled children.

Re: living with a person with a disability
 

Would be an easier life for all the above without the problems they have to face.
But.............we all do it and will keep on doing it

Keep on smiling and respect and thanks for being open
Rick

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my best friends son is called Rory. They live in France.He's eleven, however Rory is technically the age of six. He has quite a short attention span, he writes like a six year old, sort of reads, can just about do a 100 piece jigsaw on his own now. He is quite a big lad for eleven, but if you talk to him like an eleven year old you don't quite get the response you would expect. However talk to him like I do my son( who is six) it works wonders. He speaks marvellous French, and is such a loving boy. He can get in some terrible tantrums and every day is different

My friend says what Rory is, is what Rory does. We just know Rory as Rory. He has just got in to a special school in France like he used to be over here, its taken three years for him to get in, he can't cope with life in a mainstream school. There is one thing that Rory can do that astounded me when he did it a couple of years ago, ask him to draw a plan of the house and he will get all the floorplan details in true perspective and scale, a bit roughly drawn, but absolute genius in my eyes. Seein it from a pair of eyes that has studied Art and has done many a huge mural, I thought it was absolutely superb