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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. Oh, jeez.
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 02:57 AM
Dec 2016

As the mother of a son with Asperger's, there's not too many things that can get me riled up than this crap.

This son was different from day one, although it took over 18 years before he was diagnosed. That's in part because he was born in 1982, well before Asperger's was an official diagnosis. He was also sufficiently high functioning to make a formal diagnosis tricky.

To add to this, he also has an auto immune disorder, alopecia areata, which causes hair loss. He's been completely bald since he was four. Whenever someone righteously tells me that hair loss like this is from stress, I want to deck them. Give them enough stress to cause hair loss. I may not have been the world's best mother, but I was NEVER enough of a monster as to give my kid so much stress he lost all his hair.

Grrrr.

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Oh, jeez. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2016 #1
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