Noticing Asperger's

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The way I realized my daughter had Asperger's -- Well, at the time, I actually didn't know it was Asperger's. I just knew something was going on. She had a very loud, shrill, shriek. She had meltdowns over strange things. Little things, like sensitivity issues. She choked on food very easily. You could just tell something, the way she was registering things in her world, something was really different. On top of that, I had a couple of teachers and people who were in her life, instructors from her gym, said that they noticed she did things a little differently from other kids or that she was more sensitive than other kids. When enough people, who you respect in her life, tell you that something seems worthy of being checked out, for me, it was worthy of being checked out. I took her to a developmental pediatrician and the diagnosis was Asperger's.

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Sarah Maizes is an author, freelance writer, comedian and founder of MommyLITEonline.com, a parenting humor site. She is the author of several humor books including, Got Milf? The Modern Mom’s Guide to Feeling Fabulous, Looking Great and Rocking a Minivan; and three books for children; On My Way To The Bath, On My Way to Bed and the third book in the series On My Way to School to be published in 2014.Her work has been featured in Los Angeles Magazine, Babytalk, on MSNBC.com, E! Television’s “Fashion Police,” and on DailyCandyKids.com.She is a regular contributor to TODAY.com, The Huffington Post, and CBS/LosAngeles.com’s “Best of LA.”  Her work has also been featured on Glamour.com, MarieClaire.com, ParentsConnect.com, Momtourage.com, TheWellMom.com and Autisable.com – a website for parents dealing with Autism.She has appeared on The Today Show, KTLA, CNN Headline News with Brad Pomerance, NPR's "What Would Rob Do?,"ABC News Now’s “Moms Get Real with Ju Ju Chang,” and is a regular contributor to NPR’s “Tell Me More with Michel Martin,” and “HuffingtonPostLIVE” - but  is most celebrated for her ability to scale tiny jungle gyms, pack a lunch in under a minute, and park her full-size minivan in a compact space.     

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The way I realized my daughter had Asperger's -- Well, at the time, I actually didn't know it was Asperger's. I just knew something was going on. She had a very loud, shrill, shriek. She had meltdowns over strange things. Little things, like sensitivity issues. She choked on food very easily. You could just tell something, the way she was registering things in her world, something was really different. On top of that, I had a couple of teachers and people who were in her life, instructors from her gym, said that they noticed she did things a little differently from other kids or that she was more sensitive than other kids. When enough people, who you respect in her life, tell you that something seems worthy of being checked out, for me, it was worthy of being checked out. I took her to a developmental pediatrician and the diagnosis was Asperger's.