Asperger's/PDD

But I'm not surprised. Especially given your son's age.

My son, now 32, is functioning fairly well, but I worry constantly that something will go catastrophically wrong. Right now he's finishing up his bachelor's degree in physics, and yes it has taken a very long time in no small part because of the Asperger's. He has been accepted into the PhD program at the university he's currently attending. It's a decent school, but I really wish he were going somewhere better. He would get accepted almost anywhere, but for him the comfort level of staying in the same school is enormous.

So now he's set for the next few years, doing research, taking classes, working on his thesis. Eventually he'll graduate and while I shouldn't even be thinking about it at this point, I have no idea what he will finally do for real, full-time, paid employment at the end. I do rather suspect the professors where he is will tend to make sure he gets some sort of job, and that's reassuring.

So hang in there. It's not easy. It's never going to be easy. I'm guessing that your son, like mine, is a completely amazing human being. I'm finally, in the past few years, at the point where I wouldn't have him any other way. But there was a very long time when I wished I could wave a magic wand and make him "normal". Now I'm glad that didn't happen.