How are adults with Aspergers faring today?
I am finding that people with mild Asperger’s are all employed today. One of the reasons they are employed is because they have learned you can’t pick your nose in public or make rude comments to customers. I learned when I was 6 not to pick my nose in public. Learning a skill that other people value such as computer programming also helps. What else can parents of children with Asperger’s do to help their children? Take the Asperger’s kid who doesn’t have friends and find his or her area of strength and really build on it. It may be visual thinking or mathematics, or they may be word specialists. If the kid is obsessed with airplanes, read up on them and use airplanes to motivate learning. What type of thinker or learner are you? I am a visual thinker. I get concerned with very smart kids with Asperger’s getting held back because they are visual thinkers but terrible at algebra. Visual thinking children love art and building blocks. They get easily immersed in projects. Math concepts
