The whole Christmas thing out of the way we were looking forward to a week holidays.Tuesday Dec 30 I got a call from my brother that his 21yr old son had gone missing while snowboarding in BC.Worse was he had gone to resort Sunday and resort only reported his vechile abandoned Tuesday.They had to call off search that day because of weather. We chose not to tell the kids at that time and I hid away in our bacement the rest of that day and night online trying to find out any thing I could.We were told they would resume search 7:30am BC time 10:30am our time here. After a sleepless night my husband and I decided we had best tell the kids.(The RCPM had told my brother the night before it didn't look good)WE sat both boys down(Marshall 13 AS, James 11 nt,and we told them there was some very sad news we had to tell them.I was very brief and just said Jamie was snowboarding in the mountians and was missing, that there were people looking for him right now and we had to keep positive thoughts.I was very worried as to how to deal with this with the kids.

Marshall would once in awhile say things like "he is probably cold", or when we had lunch said "I bet Jamie is hungry". Around 2:30 our time we got call they had sweept 1st half of mountian and no sign,safe houses(in case of avalance) were empty and they would be changing from rescue to body recovery that afternoon.I only told the kids they had checked half of mountian and were still looking.Marshall insisted Jamie was fine.I know his comments were from his immaturaty or lack of life experance but it was the only positive thing I had. It was terrible being new years eve and going into the New Year this way.

Long story short we got call around 5:40pm we was found, alive, and only frost bittin. He had gone 3 night and on his 4th day on the mountian. Our New Year's Miracle!!!
I let my boys see some of BC news on line so they could see the story.
They have brought my nefiew home to stay with his parents while he heals from bad frost bite and Marshall and his brother and I were at their house when they arrived home.Marshall became an interviewer asking Jamie serious and humourous questions.
All is well and we have a big family party tomorrow at my brothers.

As much as I tried to stay positive, Marshall was the most positive of us all. CBS video

Me again, I wanted to mention, this week at school Marshall's class is thinking to the future and had assignment"you are in grade 8 now what will you be doing 8 yrs from now"
When I read it I laughed out loud.One coment he put"I will not be going snowboarding Mount Seymour...(long story).

He had added up he would be 21 in eight years.LOL

I am really happy Jamie came home relatively okay. I was in SAR for a number of years, and the coastal snow is very dangerous. I lived and hiked in the Rocky Mountains for years, even in winter, but the only time I ever got frostbite was here, out on the coast. The problem is the wetness of both snow and atmosphere, as it robs your body heat incredibly quickly. By the way, never depend totally on a cell phone for rescue. Very often you will be in that dip or valley that stops any signal from getting out.

Aspies can be quite psychic. Young Marshall probably "knew" somehow that his cousin was okay, despite the situation looking very bad.

If i was you i would have told them right away then told them that they switch to body search and told them they most he most likely dead.

Which is why i never will have children since i would tell them the truth about any thing bad and would ruin them.

Uh and you sure when he said he be fine it was from immaturity or lack of life experience. It could have been he saw that you was scared and hurting and he said that to try and cheer you up.

Just a thought since most grown up does not notice these things every they think they protecting their kids and never notice when their kids or doing something to protect them.

I have been off for a while, busy! But lurking and scanning. When I saw the comment that AS see things in the future I said aha! our five year old was outside and said it's raining, well, it was dark and cloudy, but not raining, then all of a sudden big drops of rain and a downpour! I now listen more closely to her, not that she does this often but I sense she knows things before they happen. Is this common? She was just dx'd as possibly on the spectrum. I think one could see 7 different doctors and get 7 different dx. GRRR! doctors!

I don't see the future, but I tend to draw conclusions from factors others ignore, so I suppose it's seeing the future in a way. It hasn't usually worked to my advatnage any more than it did for Cassandra, except that my investments have been profitable more often than not.

I agree with John. I don't see the future either, but I can draw conclusions based on information that others simply don't even see, or take the trouble to look at. A good memory for similar situations is a real bonus.

I was in Yellowstone Park one time, in late spring, and the forecast was for continuing clear for several days. Well, I told my buddy that we were leaving immediately, because it was going to snow like the dickens. He looked at the clear sky, and pooh poohed the idea. I insisted, pointing out a certain shimmer in one direction and a slight hazy in another, and said that it was going to snow. He gave in, and the next morning, when we were over 200 miles away, in a nice cozy motel, we heard that so much snow fell in Yellowstone that night that it could take up to 5 days to get some people out from where they were stranded in the park.

I also recognize the 'feel' of oncoming rain, well before there is any visible evidence; smell, a particular pattern in temperature shifts, and I'm almost sure I can tell ozone from lightning in the air, long before there is even a thunderclap in the distance.

not seeing the future since or senses don't ignore any info like a NT person does it take in all of the info and allows us to know however a reg Person brain leave a lot of the details around them out so they never notice.
Of course because we don't leave out any info around us it cause us to melt down some times. When we in place like wall-mart. Where The brain takes in every thing around ti can't handle it so the person shuts down.
Don't think i explain ti good but hopefully i did.