I had the good fortune / misfortune to spend the day on Saturday with a friend of a friend (family treasure hunt) and his Asperger’s son.
Fortune because I think I have just a tiny bit more understanding what having an Aspie / ASD child is like and the difficulties it creates.
Misfortune* because I was absolutely exhausted by the effort involved in managing around those difficulties.
* don’t flame me, I’m not saying that i didn’t enjoy their company or that i wouldn’t spend time with them again, absolutely the opposite it was a pleasure a lot of the time. Just making the point that even without being the adult caring for him, it was still hard work. So any way we can assist in that makes sense to me.