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Offline ladytron

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I've met a couple on here.  Their names start with "C"

Anyone else?  Roll call?
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2007, 03:50:17 PM »
Eh?  ???

(btw, if you look in the AS Advocacy forum, you'll probably spot which of us have kids)

(Me and PI are some of em. ;) )

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2007, 03:53:03 PM »
I have an autie son.
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2007, 04:53:15 PM »
I have an AS daughter (14) 8)

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2007, 05:02:02 PM »
i have a 9 year old daughter with as.

also, my newborn son has a large head and is a perfect, calm, baby.

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2007, 05:20:14 PM »

I have an eight year old son and a six year old daughter, both autistic.
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2007, 05:28:39 PM »
i'm an autistic baby.
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2007, 08:22:47 PM »

My daughter has a big punkin head - is this something indicative of autism?


i have a 9 year old daughter with as.

also, my newborn son has a large head and is a perfect, calm, baby.

crossing my fingers.
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2007, 08:26:35 PM »

My daughter has a big punkin head - is this something indicative of autism?


i have a 9 year old daughter with as.

also, my newborn son has a large head and is a perfect, calm, baby.

crossing my fingers.
i think so.

also shoulders that seem to lean forwards.


but i am no clinician. just making an observation.
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2007, 11:33:46 PM »

My daughter has a big punkin head - is this something indicative of autism?


i have a 9 year old daughter with as.

also, my newborn son has a large head and is a perfect, calm, baby.

crossing my fingers.

I think I read something about a correlation between head circumference in young children and ASD.

Here is one article about it:

http://www.courchesneautismlab.org/headcircumference.html

Here is another one:

http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/07/15/1058035013230.html

BTW, I have a big head.  My daughter has a big head too, but not nearly as big as mine.   :laugh:

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2007, 11:43:05 PM »
Have to confess I have a gigantic head.  I was also born a three weeks post term at 10 pounds (in 1966 that was extremely weird)

My daughter was born post term two weeks and was 11 pounds.

Big baby mean something?  I don't know!?

The neurologists have all measured her head with a tape measure a million times and declare it's within limits for normalcy

I see a big head.
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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2007, 12:24:48 AM »
BTW, I have a big head. 

Tell us something we don't already know.  :smarty: :razz: :smarty:

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2007, 12:26:32 AM »

My daughter has a big punkin head - is this something indicative of autism?


I had a big pumpkin head too.

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2007, 12:36:11 AM »

My daughter has a big punkin head - is this something indicative of autism?


I had a big pumpkin head too.

AWWWW!  That is such a cute picture, Scrapheap.  Have any more recent ones?

My daughter was three weeks early and weighed six pounds and four ounces.  She was tiny and grew slowly, but she had other health issues because she was born with a VSD.  I was a nine pound baby and my brother was nearly eleven pounds.  He has a big head too.

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Re: Want to hear from AS'ers who are parents with kids onthe spectrum
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2007, 01:01:21 AM »
I think I have a big head, I know I have to wear pretty big hats.
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