More evidence: fat =/= unhealthy

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Fat people are only slightly more likely than thin people to have high colesterol or high blood pressure.

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[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

That centre really does sound wonderful. I love your attitude toward your son as well! And I agree with you totally, that unobtrusive therapies that improve quality of life are wonderful.

I can pass for neurotypical easily in most social interactions, since my parents caught on early to the fact that I had social skills problems and needed to be explicitly taught the unwritten rules of social behaviour (e.g. eye contact). However, I have major problems with executive functioning that are seriously compromising my university work, and my physical and sensory issues never got treated. I'm in therapy for the school issues and for the emotional issues that going undiagnosed for so long caused, but I don't have anyone helping me with the coordination problems or the sensory problems. Fortunately, my only major sensory problem is oversensitivity to taste--I eat a fairly small selection of foods, with almost no fresh fruits or vegetables. I am also under-sensitive to light and colour, but I deal with that by surrounding myself with rainbow things and bright yellow things :).

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Yes, executive functioning is hard for me and I am at a loss to how to deal with that. Besides my aspie son, I have a non verbal son with PDD-NOS so I am jsut kind of not doing stuff for myself, which isn't good.

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't really been able to improve my executive functioning at all, just to get to know my brain a bit better to see what will help and hurt.

And no, not doing stuff for yourself isn't good, but it sounds to me like you are at least doing right by your kids, which is a lot more than a lot of parents can say.