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My autistic son just exhibited his super human strength in a bad way. He was sitting in the front seat of my car and nonchalantly backhanded the windshield and shattered it! Unbeknownst to me he did the same thing to his caregiver's windshield a few weeks ago. He's put his head through the walls in our house a few times. There's a number of big welts in my car's roof. If he wasn't autistic there's no doubt in my mind he would be playing middle linebacker in the NFL or on a professional wrestling circuit. Pound for pound he's the strongest person I've ever seen. We'll have to put him in the back seat of the car from now on (the rear window isn't as big and won't cost that much to fix).

My god, bob! What you do every day amazes me. You're quite a man, & you have to be chock-full of love to deal like you do. I'm proud to know you.

I 2nd Philby on that, and that goes for you too SP!

My husband has an autistic niece and you can feel her incredible strength just by standing next to her. I would really hate to see her mad. Seriously, she could play linebacker. Her family is very proactive in her education and care. So my heart goes out to anyone here whose lives are affected and/or enhanced by autism in any form.

I do believe my sweetie has Asperger's. He's not been diagnosed and I am not pushing for a diagnosis. But I feel that he is in agreement.

It is not him ... it's us Bob. When the mind is not telling us we "can't" the body is capable of incredible acts of strength.
It is exhibited daily in psych wards and hospitals all over the world.
I've had a harder time wresting a knife away from an 80 year old Alzheimer patient than I have submitting men in there twenty's right out of boot camp.
( of course I was trying to do so without injury to him but their strength can be amazing )
Our bodies full potential is unknown.
We were created by an awesome God.

sanshouheil wrote:It is not him ... it's us Bob. When the mind is not telling us we "can't" the body is capable of incredible acts of strength.
It is exhibited daily in psych wards and hospitals all over the world.
I've had a harder time wresting a knife away from an 80 year old Alzheimer patient than I have submitting men in there twenty's right out of boot camp.
( of course I was trying to do so without injury to him but their strength can be amazing )
Our bodies full potential is unknown.
We were created by an awesome God.

George had to pull out his king fu skills Well, anyway George,
that makes so much sense...they can because they believe they can.

philbymon wrote:My god, bob! What you do every day amazes me. You're quite a man, & you have to be chock-full of love to deal like you do. I'm proud to know you.

I don't know if I'm quite a man, I do know I'm just a man with faults like anybody else. I also know that blood is thicker than water and if you don't love your own blood with every fiber in your being then you really don't have the right to be called quite a man...

George had to pull out his king fu skills Well, anyway George,
that makes so much sense...they can because they believe they can.[/quote]

No Miss Mary. You missed an important distinction.

They can because can't & consequences are a non existent concepts.

The mind places no barrier on the neuro-muscular systems capacity.

I witness this phenomenal fairly regularly in people with variable cognition.
An example would be the patient whom slips in or out of delirium such as sundowner's syndrome. Alert and oriented x4 during the day but in the evening or nights they are confused and disoriented.
While A&O lets say with a hip replacement compounded by morbid obesity, and respiratory disease. It will take 3 people or a Hoyer lift to get them to a W/C or toilet.
At night in their delirium that same person will get out of bed on their own and walk to the toilet despite the presence of the physical debility of weakness and pain that are still present.

There are far too many males who would find a way to shirk your responsibility Bob.
But they are not MEN.

Break a deal, spin the wheel..

sanshouheil wrote:George had to pull out his king fu skills Well, anyway George,
that makes so much sense...they can because they believe they can.

No Miss Mary. You missed an important distinction.

They can because can't & consequences are a non existent concepts.

The mind places no barrier on the neuro-muscular systems capacity.

I witness this phenomenal fairly regularly in people with variable cognition.
An example would be the patient whom slips in or out of delirium such as sundowner's syndrome. Alert and oriented x4 during the day but in the evening or nights they are confused and disoriented.
While A&O lets say with a hip replacement compounded by morbid obesity, and respiratory disease. It will take 3 people or a Hoyer lift to get them to a W/C or toilet.
At night in their delirium that same person will get out of bed on their own and walk to the toilet despite the presence of the physical debility of weakness and pain that are still present.

There are far too many males who would find a way to shirk your responsibility Bob.
But they are not MEN.[/quote]

That makes even more sense, George. Hey there are a lot of men who don't even hang with their neurotypical children. Fisherman bob, great job.

My guess is that if your son wasn't the way he is, that the two of you would STILL be spending a lot of time together. The biggest difference would be that he would be able to know & understand what a great father he has!

Sentient Paradox wrote:

Black57 wrote:Hey there are a lot of men who don't even hang with their neurotypical children.

Nah...

Mary, those aren't MEN.

Amen

philbymon wrote:My guess is that if your son wasn't the way he is, that the two of you would STILL be spending a lot of time together. The biggest difference would be that he would be able to know & understand what a great father he has!

And Amen ... again.