My son, Ryan, has followed a friend in running away and I have no way of contacting him. I am contacting any and all of my online communities in an attempt to get the word and pictures out every way possible.

This community probably understands better than any others how scary this is with an Asperger's child. I haven't gone over what to do if you find yourself in the middle of Montana, with no money, no cell phone, etc. I don't even know if he will apply what I have taught him to this new and probably chaotic environment.

If anyone has any ideas on how to push this news around the Internet more, please do it. I have so far done two news releases, they are at http://blackhillsportal.com/npps/story.cfm?id=2696 and http://blackhillsportal.com/npps/story.cfm?ID=2697.

Carolyn

Filling out job applications for my 16 year old son, who has Aspergers, is a new experience for each different format we come across.  I have to go through each section with him and explain which fields to leave blank and sometimes assist with an explanation of the information being requested.  Since Ryan has an excellent memory, on one I tried going through the entire form ahead of time and pointed to the blanks where he needed to write nothing.  Bad choice of words on my part!  When he was finished, there were blanks filled out like:  College -- "Nothing";  Technical School -- "Nothing;  Special Skills -- "Nothing".

When will I ever learn to beware of his literal understanding of our language.  It is times like this that I am glad Ryan has a good sense of humor, because I couldn't hide my giggles on this one.  There were times when this type of miscommunication frustrated me and him.  We find it much more theraputic to laugh about it and enjoy the differences.