Originally Posted by Zayne E.

Wow...it's been 13 since I did the same. I dropped my last name so my last name is now what was my middle name. But that was easy...

The hardest thing I ever did I am doing day-in and day-out. I am a single dad of a 7-year old boy with Asperger's Syndrome. It's just me and him 24/7, 10.5 months a year and has been since 2005. When he was first diagnosed back in '06 he was labeled hardcore Autistic with Dyspraxia. That was unacceptable to me. I took a long look at other kids his age and started working with him every spare minute to try and get him up to speed. It started paying off almost immediately as 3 months later his neurologist couldn't believe he was the same kid.

He continues to have struggles and challenges but he is learning to read, is very good at math and his speech is "close" to normal. He still has a long way to go and he is struggling in first grade...but the good news is, this year, he is in a mainstream classroom. He gets pulled 2 hours a day for intervention...and I have a tutor for him on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All-in-all I truly believe he will be normal, fully functioning and capable of living as an adult on his own. Most parents want their kids to be this or that when they grow up. I want my son to be able to hold a job, balance his checkbook and pay his bills without assistance.

Put that in your smoke and pipe it.