Voice's of an Aspie

Voices of an Aspie

Voices of an Aspie...

The first thing I guess we can start off with in these blogs is a topic that is a very serious topic that millions of people deal with on a daily basis. That topic is Autism. I am a single , or was a single father for years. He was diagnosed when he was 4. Now I have a woman that is a great mother to him. Many problems occur when dealing with Autism. The worse thing we've had to deal with; well it's hard to judge. So many things stem from Autism, such as Anxiety, A.D.D., A.D.H.D., Etc...An Autistic mind is so strong. It's impossible to fully know what a parent may have to deal with on a daily basis. The most horrifying, yet intriguing thing we have dealt with, was when my/our son was diagnosed as having Schizophrenia. One night my lady was going over school work with my boy. He replied to her at one point: "Well they told me I was doing it right." We were like "Who is They?" He then began to tell us all about who "They" were. Apparently my son, for years had been hearing voices in his head. He explained that each voice had a name and a different personality. He gave us ten different names, & described their their traits to us. It's hard to remember all of them. I know there was one identified as Summer, another was Thomas, and so on. They all contributed in different ways. One of them was a motherly type. Another was one that helped him in school with different studies. The main one, the boss I guess, his name was Daniel. He was very evil. My son told us dreadful things that "Daniel" would tell him to do. Just for an example, one particular time my son told us that "Daniel" told him to hang my girls kid, My step-daughter, to hang her upside down and skin her alive. Obviously this was a major concern. It took us months for us to learn that the more we and the Dr.'s spoke to him about these voices; the more he would talk about what they would tell him. Eventually we just quit acknowledging the voices he would speak of . It took a while to get through it, but we did it. I'm glad to say that he is not schizophrenic. As I said about the mind-strength of the Autistic mind. At the age of 3 or 4, someone had allowed him to watch the horror movie "The Grudge". After that seeing that somehow; what began as only thoughts, eventually developed into their own entity's. They had been effecting my son's behavior for years. I asked him why he didn't say something sooner. He replied that he thought that everybody heard voices like that. Now that is one of many difficulties we have all gotten through together. If you would like to ask a question about this story, or would like to hear another, or post one of your own, feel free to. I would be glad to help in anyway I can. Maybe I could get help from something you've experienced in your dealings with Autism. Regardless, feel free to leave your thoughts. Thank You...