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Name: erobinson219

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I would like some insight from other parents on how to handle a situation. James is a 16 year old high funationing autistic who has been living wit me and my fiance and my now young adult kids for about 6 years. James stole money from my kids last year and bought a Ninento WII. We took it away from him and explained why it was wrong. At Christmas James wanted WII bit we would not buy it. We did buy him a new laptop among other things which costs a lot of money and he did express interest in it. Now we found out that he sold it to buy a WII without asking us and sold it for half of waht we paid for it to buy the WII. WHat should we do? There really are so many issues here of trust, relationships, etc. I would like to know how other parents would handle this one. ↓

Name: Markysmom | Date: Apr 29th, 2008 12:59 AM

He just sounds like a strong minded teen. Yes you do have to show him right from wrong but, it seems like he's gonna have that Wii. I suggest that you find a way to make him earn the money to rebuy the laptop. Once he's done that I would let him have the Wii. I hope that helps ↑

Name: loli | Date: Jun 2nd, 2008 10:04 AM

Why didn't you just buy him a Wii if that is what he wanted for Xmas? ↑

Name: asdmom | Date: Sep 22nd, 2008 1:51 AM

I think you should buy him a wii.

At the end of the day. At least you will know where he is and that he is safe at home.
It will help develop his skills. Already he has done things to try his best to get hold of a wii. Get him a wii and hopefully the mischieous ways will stop.
We all know how obsessive asd children can get, although my son of 11 years is not high functioning and is low functioning, he cannot talk and will never be able to live an independent life, but I let him play on his pc, nintendo ds and wii all the time as it helps improve his skills. But maybe its different for high functioning asd kids. ↑