Common Problems for Teens with Asperger’s: Autism in Teenage Years

Common Problems for Teens with Asperger’s: Autism in Teenage Years

Most experts do a great job of presenting the problems teens with autism in teenage years face during their adolescence. This two-part article gives parents some important tips and suggestions.

Problems Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder Syndrome Often Face Children with ASD can often be indifferent to what others think allowing them to be ambivalent to the intense peer pressure of adolescence. They can show incredible focus leading them to become accomplished musicians, historians, mathematicians, etc.

Common Problems of a ASD Teen Many ASD teens are stiff and rule-oriented and act like little adults, which is a deadly trait in any teenage popularity contest. Friendship and all its nuances of reciprocity can be exhausting for a child with ASD–even though she wants it more than anything else.

Autism Spectrum Disorder children, with their distractibility and difficulty organizing materials, face similar academic problems as students with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). A high school term paper or a science fair project becomes impossible to manage because no one has taught the Spectrum child to break the project up into a series of small steps. Even though the academic stress on an ASD teen can be overwhelming, school administrators may be reluctant to enroll him in special education at this late point in his educational career.

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