I am Phyllis Wheeler, mother of two kids with Asperger's: "Mike" and "Shannon."
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Phyllis | June 17, 2009
So, what is her story? Is she parroting? Somehow it hardly seems likely. If she were deep in autism, the sensory input of a huge crowd would overwhelm her. Yet she seems unfazed. She was once mute, and now isn’t. Not only does she sing, but she talks and has friends, according to her Web site.
Phyllis | June 11, 2009
He was fretting and fretting about tornadoes, and it was time to go to bed. So we prayed about the fear and got out a white noise machine for him. Then he went to bed. He says he slept fine. The storm did arrive in the night. I guess he didn’t hear it.
He’s been on medication for anxiety, clonazepam. I am thinking it isn’t working. I’m going to try gradually taking him off it. It’s the last prescription medication he is on.