We were just talking about something that is rude to ask people you do not know, but that you can ask your family.  In this case, how old are you?

My husband explains that there are a lot of things you can do in our family, but not necessarily anywhere else, as we are bizarre!

My daughter smiles, a big beaming one, and says with a big hug being helped onto my husband, "I love being bizarre!"

I took my daughter to the building where the child care center for my office is held, for her 3 hours there this morning.  We came up the back street and went towards the building.  She looked at me and said "Well either this building has changed its facade, or we are entering on the other side."  LOL!

Hi!  I'm a new member....and this is my first post.  I am the proud mom of a 5 year old Aspie.  I love everything that makes him so unique.  He has made some really funny plays-on-words ever since he was 2.  Things like, "Be care-empty," (instead of "careful"), "I'm wrong-ing my name," (instead of "writing"), "Are you listening to your I-Potty?" (instead of I-Pod), etc.

I also love how he asks adults, "Are you a million years old?"

This is such a great site!  Thanks for letting me share about my son!

Hi OneMillionThings and Welcome to AFF!

My son will be 7 at the end of the year and he's always really enjoyed wordplay as well!

My daughter is 22, she was diagnosed with ADD while still at school years ago.  She's very stubborn and determined (a bit of a chip off the old block).  She's trained as a chef.

She was a very beautiful child, when she was a toddler we used to get stopped while out shopping or whatever and people used to say how beautiful she was.  After being told this so many times by total strangers I eventually took her along to a casting for a child model agency and they took a portfolio of photographs and signed her up.  Even as a teenager she did work for GAP, although she modelled clothes for internal style sheets as opposed to magazine or billboard ads.

She got married in May to a really lovely guy and has a beautiful smiley baby son.

My daughter started school yesterday, and found that her new teacher was unaware of her special needs, when she did not scribe for her as is part of her IEP.  My daughter went up to her desk, asked to see the teacher outside of class, and explained to her that she has learning differences and that she has an IEP that will explain to the teacher her special needs in class.  

She is 8 years old, going on 9.  I am so incredibly proud of her.

Wow, she is really on the ball! I probably at that age would've said or done nothing.

I don't think "saying and doing nothing" is in Little Korrigan's genes.

As a teacher, I know how difficult it would be for a kid twice her age to talk with a teacher in that way. That's quite a kid.

That's great Korrigan. That sure is brave and mature.  Heck I still remember how in 3rd grade I was so shy when I whispered to the teacher that I wanted permission to go to the laboratory. She kept saying "What?"  I had to say it louder each time, fearing the other kids would hear and thinking the teacher quite dense.  Years later I realized the problem.  I had been trying to ask to use the "lavatory".

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This is a good thread to show people who are worried about my 6-year-old son.

I think he's going to be just fine. With a lot of love and support, of course.

My son probly isn't autistic but his dad and I are PDD-NOS and we noticed our smart genes in him. He was almost crawling at 2 days old. I think he might have the best of both worlds. He's 2 now and seems to like intellectual-like videos and counting and saying the alphabet, but he also loves attention and playing outside... hmmmm...

my futre child if i ever get there will be awesome....

My children will be awesome becaus eI come from awesome family and awesomeness is a genetic trait.
also… I’ll teach them to be awesome.