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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3047170" data-attributes="member: 7533">Willpower.  Concentration.  Patience.  Tenacity.Practice.  Practice.  Practice.Start small, and work your way bigger...  Just like any exercise program, except that you are exercising you willpower, concentration, patience and tenacity to complete a task.  If you live with someone you trust, enlist their help.  Develop simple aids to help you stay on task...  To-do lists, schedules, "gold star" rewards, and such.  Whatever works for you to stay concentrated long enough to get the job done.  At first, break tasks up into smaller portions, and complete one step at a time, with breaks between.  Later, work toward completing multiple steps, before taking a break.  I'm sure you get the idea, here.My son is slightly autisic.  We didn't find out until halfway through hiw firts year of kindergarten.  My wife and I were adamant that he wouldn't never be medicated for it, and that he would stay in the regular school classes with all the other kids.  Instead, we would work with the teachers and school faculty to find ways for him to work with his autism...  Teaching him to use the strengths of his condition to his advantage, and learning to work around the weaknesses.He's now in 2nd grade, and has gone from being a uncommunicative, unresponsive, stubbornly resistant 5-year old (mostly because he couldn't find appropriate ways to express himself or maintain his attention long enough to complete tasks he was uninterested in) to being a kind, friendly, open, talkative, independent 8-year old.  Much of that, we have to thank his teachers and his principle for.  Before kindergarten, he was an autistic child with an obvious problem.  Three hard won years later, he's a practically normal kid (meaning he can do anything the other kids can do, even if it means he does it in a different way than they do), who's sometimes just a little bit odd.</blockquote>

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