So I must go for now...
Have a good day, stay warm if you are in the snow storm and I will catch up with you later.

CEK40 wrote:

So I must go for now...
Have a good day, stay warm if you are in the snow storm and I will catch up with you later.

yes stay warm guys ......HRM is it snowing badly up there????

gabriele wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

gabriele wrote:

 Hi view,good to hear you are enjoying yourself.  I'm very interested when you get to the silver smithing part.  My experiences in felting are somewhat limited and mostly unintentional.    Sometimes I give a skein of wool the washing machine test when I'm unsure if it is worth my time in knitting it up.  I have accumulated a selection of 'river rocks' this way, which I keep, thinking one day I will have a creative idea for these 'fur-felt balls'.We are booked in with 'muscle'-Michael in a fortnight.  My little guy has hypermobile joints and very low muscle tone, which happens quite a bit in children with autism apparently.  He has dislocated one elbow four times already, but we need to find a physical activity which is safe for him to do to strengthen him.       ​
 

Gabriele, wow, I did not know this.  Of course I know very little about autism compared to you and to the mom of the 23 year old autistic son whom I have often hung out with when his mom is teaching.  He is able to play basketball.  And about two months ago he moved into home for adults who are autistic or have downs syndrome.  He is doing exceptionally well, much better than his mom had expected.   You and my friend have my undying admiration and respect for keeping your boys with you and giving them so much love and attention physically and emotionally.  Here's to finding activities that will help him strengthen his bones and joints. 
 

 Thanks KOS!  Sorry, I didn't get a chance earlier to catch up properly.  I feel so sorry for the parents who have gone through the journey many years ago.  First we had the 'refrigerator mum' idea, then the money was on the genetic cause with little positive practical follow on for the people who live with autism.  Only now and with the epidemic increase (no such thing as a 'genetic' epidemic), there is funding into the medical causes of autism.  I watched a series of interviews/lectures through the autismintensive.com on the weekend.  Positive is that we now have around half a dozen autism phenotypes that respond to biomedical treatment.  Very exciting.  We have done biomedical interventions since 2008, as soon as we could get in with a practitioner.  I went for it based on a gut feeling, as I could see he was physically unwell oftentimes, thinking he won't be the best he can be without feeling well.    Our prognosis then was severe autism, likely to remain non-verbal.  My little guy talks now, still very delayed, but we probably wouldn't be where we are without biomedical treatment.  Our next goal is to transfer him from special education to mainstream.     

If you don't mind me asking what is the "refrigerator mom" idea?????