what degree do I want? Special education or ABA?
Id like to work with children with Autism - either in a classroom or one on one therapy. Will one degree work for both or do I have to choose before I get into the classes specified?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can raise autism awareness in my school?
I will be a senior in high school this fall. After high school i want to be a special education teacher and work with autistic kids. A lot of people in my school make fun of kids in the special education classes and I’m sick of it. I think it is mostly because they do not understand. I this problem can be solved and someone needs to do something, and start somewhere. Anyone have any ideas how i can raise autism awareness in my high school?
Should I get the H1N1 vaccine?
I don’t even get a regular Flu shot cause im scared of the side effects.
After hearing what Jenny McCarthy had to say about a flu shot..
soo is it safe to get a H1n1 shot?
im healthy.. but Ive heard of deaths of healthy people getting the vaccine
I have to make up my mind by November 2nd
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Jenny McCarthys son got a normal flu shot and sometime after that he developed Autism when he didn’t have it before
she did research on flu shots they contain mercury, I have also read that the H1n1 has some traces of Mercury
I am type one Diabetic.
my final answer is leading to a No on the Vaccine what about you?
I googled H1n1 vaccine risks
it said 2 healthy women from Sweden died 3 days after getting the vaccine
my doctor is a retard (no offence)
he’s just stupid but even he says wait
for the next round of vaccines to see what
happens to the people who get theirs on the 2nd even he wont risk it
Im 16, should I get the H1N1 Vaccine?
I’m a 16 year old guy. I’m still not sure if I should get the H1N1 vaccine. There was that 13 year old guy that died from it last week, but the doctors say its like a 1 in a million.
But I’ve read that vaccines are good. I’ve also heard that the H1N1 vaccine has mercury in it, is that true? Also, i’ve read that vaccines cause autism and stuff. Also some people die from vaccines.
So should I get the vaccine?
Did you and how old are you?
Thanks.
Why are they asking pregnant women to get the H1N1 vaccines that contain mercury which may cause Autism?
Thimerosal contains mercury and is in the multi-dose H1N1 vaccine.
However, it is not in the single dose H1N1 vaccine or the nose-administered vaccine. My pregnant wife’s doctor tried to give her the multi-dose which contains mercury and may cause autism in children.
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/vaccine_safety_qa.htm
Will the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine contain thimerosal?
The 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines that FDA is licensing (approving) will be manufactured in several formulations. Some will come in multi-dose vials and will contain thimerosal as a preservative. Multi-dose vials of seasonal influenza vaccine also contain thimerosal to prevent potential contamination after the vial is opened.
Some 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines will be available in single-dose units, which will not require the use of thimerosal as a preservative. In addition, the live-attenuated version of the vaccine, which is administered intranasally (through the nose), is produced in single-units and will not contain thimerosal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal#Autism
I’m saying that she should get the single dose that does not contain mercuryinstead of the multi-dose, I’m NOT saying that she should not get it.
i have lots of friends now…so why do i still feel so lonely?
ive been an outcast all my life with few friends. good friends tho. but i moved schools and ive made so many friends and im really close to this chick and we have so much fun together and shes a really great friend but when im not with them. like walking home or something i get this really lonely feeling…just feels like something is missing. im not sure what it is tho. ive been different allmy life and to suddenly fit in with these girls…it just dosent feel like its enough…i dont know why. my dads been depressed for a while now and he gets tired alot cuase my mother has had clinical depression and hes the one who raised us and he has no support even tho i clean and i try to cook and you know my brother and sister have autism so…my life and his and my mums have been hard. but i thought friends would make me happy but…its only temporry happiness. ive been at this school for 7 days. maybe my mind is still in lonely girl mode. you know. i donno…what will make me happy. im best friends with my dad. and hes not there anymore…im not happy with the school cause ive degraded so maybe thats it also. and all up. i just feel a hole…a depressing hole.
but i think the fact that i cant tell my dad about how bad the school is (im not going into the reasons why. but i just cant) so i feel disconnected. and hes been disconnecting himself. =(
but i dont think thasts quite it. i donno. maybe im jsut a retard and feel depressed for no particular reason. i forgot to mention im 15 and in year 9.
i donno. for some reason. i think i i fit in that means im not special anymore…
but i want these friends. just i donno. something more also.
What do i do in this type of situation?
hi my name is nick and people dont like me for this reason only. and ill tell u the whole story. u see it all began when i was in 5th grade in the year 2003. i was doing good soo far in the beginning of the year (at least for a kid diagnosed with autsim/aspbergers i was, lol!) so then itll all happened when my 5th grade teacher began to mess with my mind by telling me some bad comments like "I’m beginning to worry about u," and "you’re acting very bad today," and stuff like that. So then i go home and worry and worry until the next day and thejn a couple of days after i suddenly begin to develop a little anxiety. actually it was a lot for a 5th grader, but man was i messed up, lol! not to mention that i was also obesessed with classic monster movies such as dracula, the wolf man, phantom of the opera, etc. ifnfact i was soo obsessed with them that i began to tlak about them with different kids in my class. my teacher who was a complete bitch and wanted to give me a hard time, then told me to stop tlaking about them, and whenever i decided to rent out the monster books from the Library, she would always take it away from me and lock it up in her desk. 
I even tried to write a fictional horror story about a white vampire like the one from Salem’s Lot, but she found it on top of my desk, and locked that one up too. It was just gettijng even more and more worse, infact i was getting soo worried about htings that i would do and say, that i didnt kno wat to talk about anymore! i was afraid and my teacher was always staring at me throughout the whole entire day! why!!!!!!!! lol!!!!!!!!! she was sooo weird!!!!!!! and there was this one time when i was in social studies class with mrs. gorgi that same year, and i jsut mentioned that i caught a ghost in a cup and put a cross around it thats all! and she sent me down to the nurse! wat is she atheist!!!!! For Christ’s sakes, my 5th grade teacher did the same thing to me as well, but she also sent me down to the principals office and teamed up with the btichy old hag so that they could both give me a hard time starting from when i was being bullied and about to get into a fist fight with some big kid! But not only did she tell the principal to give me a hard time, but whenever i was absent or not in the classroom, (and im jsut assuming this part im not 100% true to whether or not this is real), but maybe she told the class about my learning disability and how autism functions. But she told them in a way that made it sound like as if i should not be loved and that they should treat me differently and make fun of me for it by calling me slow and stuff. Infact she did say i was slow, omg!!!!! she even called my pre-school class (true fact i was there), a develop and mentally challenged class filled with slow minded people!!!! shes such a bitch i kno!!!!!!!! and i kno all of this because one of the people i dont like even still from today told one small kid right infront of me that i was slow, and in reality she said this to my face!!!!!! omg!!!!!!!!!! The worst part is that i believe that the whole reaosn as to why i am not popular (espicially in the state of Rhode Island), is because of the fact that i went to middle school eith these 5th graders. elemntary school kids as well. i didnt like them either they were assholes to me too and still r today! so anyways i believe that these 5th graders (not in the 7th grade caus ei knew for the fact that they had no friends watsoever cause we were divided into teams and i was on a team with none of the kids from my elementary school. but then once i got into the 7th and 8th grade, then the rumors began to spread about me and my disabiltiy from the 5th grade and all of those memories form that horrible 5th grade teacher oh the horror form that wicked bitch!!!!!!! and now its spreading thorughout high school, and thats the whole reaosn y i cant get a GF, i have no friends, and i am not involved in any cliques, all because of my stupid retarded 5th grade teacher!!!!!!!! so wat should i do? should i go out of state for college, or pray and pray even more until things can get better and eventually people will forget that all of this was ever said? i mean its such a small state where everybody knos everybody, so what should i do? who should i get help from?????????
I have noone who I consider a close friend?
I Joined karate hoping to maybe find Quality people there and for the most part did. I am not good at finding time for friends because my husband and daughter and son require a lot of my time and emotional support. I limit m self to trying to make friends with people who do not require a lot of my attention. But I gues you can say there is really noone besides my family that I hang out with. My work is Demanding and I can’t even think about one more committment to anyone else. My son has autism and my husband has just finished fighting Cancer but not out of the woods yet. I really would love to just have time for a good friend. Right now I enjoy my friends at karate but have not gone beyond that. I did invite one person over with her son and she delined cause she had to work. Should I keep asking her maying for another time? I am not good at this.
I can’t imagin having to be there for anymore people I have no time.
Fighting an incorrect majority opinion?
I’ve been in situations in my life where people got "the wrong idea" about something. For example, I once was talking to someone about Asperger’s syndrome, because I know someone who has it. Someone else overheard, drew a wild conclusion that *I* had Asperger’s. It spread to other people, and suddenly one day someone asked me a question alluding to the fact that I "had autism."
I actually laughed, and tried to explain, "No, I *know* someone with Asperger’s. I’m fine!" They thought I was making a really lame attempt at hiding the fact that I was, actually, autistic.
The irony is, I became anxious around this group of people and a little paranoid, causing me to act a little weird around them, thus reinforcing their belief.
Other situations have popped up like this for a lot of people I suspect, maybe not as strange, but similar.
If people are dead-set in believing something about you that is patently untrue–that you’re dumb, crazy, on drugs, whatever–what can you do about it?
ok, i think im on the verge of a mental breakdown!?please please help?
ok…so theres just alot of crap thats been going on my whole life, and im 15 and because of this i never had a childhood or a teenagehood and i grew up really fast and now im 15 and i take on to much i put these burdons on my back because i feel like i have to i have a duty to my family! and just these last 2 days ive felt like theres something in my head ready to explode and i can literally feel the pressure and i get really really bad tension headaches and i get anxious and scared about random stuff! and im not eating properly…meaning barely at all. i just feel like ive held it together for so long and kept it inside but now the cracks are showing and im scared because i feel crazy! really crazy but i dont like see or hear or smell things that arent there or anything its just im scared im gonna go crazy!
amnyway ill tell you whats actually wrong
summary:
brother and sister born with aspergers, adhd and other types of autism (skipped me)
got beat up by older brother, sometyimes younger sister (when i was a kid for example, hitting, punching, kicking,choking,throwing against walls ect..)
mother cliniically depressed…vegetable on couch, we dont talk, i say i love her she ignores me and says nothing, when i speak i might as well not bother, i dont want to see her clinically depressed anymore! i use to hear her cry, and thats the last thing a child wants their mother to be doing.
dad and me, best friends, but he is sad because mum is always taking his money and he works everyday then comes home and cooks and cleans and i try to help but he dosent notice and i dont want to see him sad anymore
my brotehr is disowned by my dad because he quit school stole 2 thousand doallrs form my dad twice and dad paid heaps of money to get him help but then sam got lazy and he wont get a job or anything and he smokes and all this other crap and he is also clinically depressed!
i help them in everyway i can! but i cant take a break from thinking abotu it cause that is selfish of me, to think of myself, and i dont get along with people my age and i dont want to
nothing is important to me anymore i dont want to do anything and things that were important to me arent anymore
and my mum has binge eating disorder and my dad exercises to the point were its dangerous and this has made me confused! and now im anorexic because i find my mother and food disgusting!
im not sure wether to be mad or sad or feel sorry for my mum and i think abot it aLL THE TIME! and thats whats confusing me! i want a mum! i want my dad back! *tears* sigh…and im moving schools next year going into year 9 and you know…i went from a sorta safe environment (at school that is
) to a not so safe one…its the summer holidays and…i have to much time to think and i cant live at my friends house!…and im always scared that someones going to kill themselves! sriously…and i just…i donno feel liek there should be something i can do although im doing everything i can! and i want my dad to leave my mum and i would go witht him because he deserves better but then i miss my bro and sis cause they will stay with her and she’ll think i dont love her and get even more depressed which i dont knwo how that is possible but i guess it is! and leik shes alresady tried to kill herself a few times! and once they did split and dad was alone becuase i couldnt live iwth him because he worked alot but now its NOT the day after my eleventh birthday im 151 i can take care of myself….sigh…
i feel trapped and chlosteraphobic, im never going to get out of this cycle you knwo the one thats like "im so selfish if i do anything for myself, this is my responsibity it will always be,fun!? excuse me who said you could have fun, not to mention why do you want fun your barely a teenager, you werent even a kid!" that cycle, and im lonely because…i just want a mum i would give up every once of sanity for them to be happy! i just them to be happy so bad…i dont want ot see them sad anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but they will always be that way…i dont even knwo how many times my mother has been to a phycologist or how many tablets shes on or how many times shes over dosed! and my dad had to go it alone while i was to young! and he bitches about my mum to my neighbours and thats just…not good, my mother is a child! and im the adult, its alwyas been that way. she didnt even earn to read or write or do anything becuase her parents neglected her which is what shes doing to me, i mean my siblings did need her more but i need her! i mean i could ener have her! i could ebevr do dancing til this year becuase of financial problems i sacrificed everything all my life, to amke it a little bit more convenient for them and thats why im moving schools because its easier for my mum because she can sleep in 20 minutes longer because shes happy when she sleeps!…
do you now see why my head is going to explode!?
help…amnd councellors are off limits because that w
would mean that my parents would find out! and that unnecessary stress and sadness and inconvenience i dont want to give them. sorry about my typos…i got overwhelmed…