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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 390148" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sveng, I love that one!</p><p></p><p>Ten years ago I wrote an article about the challenge but also the amusement (coupled with embarrassment) of daily life when you have autistic kids.</p><p></p><p>Some of the incidents, I have mentioned here before. In a nutshell:</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 saying the darndest things, as he tried to use what words he had, to describe his world. For example, having to shut the car window as we turned onto the expressway and began to go faster because "the wind is poking my eyes."</p><p></p><p>Having difficult child 3 fixated on chasing birds of any kind wherever he saw them in flocks on the ground - it led to some embarrassing situations. In parks, little old ladies who have spent the previous half hour coaxing a pigeon to finally take a bit of bread from their fingers, got very angry when difficult child 3 charged through the flock and laughed with delight as they took to the air. And in Sydney' Central Station (railway) with its high vaulted stone ceilings, the pigeons come and go freely. In the McDonalds there we were ordering some lunch when difficult child 3 saw the pigeons - the place was crowded (think - New York Central Station!) and difficult child 3 chased the pigeons again, through the crowds. People with trays of food; people ordering food; people at tables eating food; hundreds of people and hundreds of pigeons panicking everywhere. We would have liked to pretend he wasn't ours... but someone had to grab the kid and get him out of there.</p><p></p><p>And the time the new front-loader washing machine arrived. I immediately put it to work. An hour or so later I realised I hadn't seen the boys for some time. I found them both in the laundry, sitting on the floor in front of the washing machine as if the little window was a TV of some sort. Their heads were tilting this way and that in unison, as they watched the little window in the washing machine. difficult child 1 who was 15 at the time said to me, "I don't know why, but I find this strangely compelling..."</p><p>They then took the box the washing machine had come in, and turned it into a mini fort which they set up in front of the TV/games console. They cut a small window in the box, filled the box with cushions then climbed in and threaded the game controllers through the box. They sat in the dark in the comfort of their box and played games, peering through their little cardboard window. Later that night I went looking for difficult child 1 and found him in the box, reclining (crouched) on cushions, doing his homework.</p><p></p><p>And today - easy child 2/difficult child 2's intimate gynaecological procedure. SIL2 was there with her but she was still very nervous. So we talked. I got her started on a topic - movie trivia - and she kept talking about it while I played dumb and asked leading questions. Every so often from between her legs, the doctor put in a comment (or said, "OK, injecting more local now...") but we kept her talking about the fine detail trivia and in so doing, kept her panic level way way down. This doctor is smart - he quietly thanked me afterwards; he had realised how terrified she was and also spotted what I was doing. He said more loudly, "You came through that like a trooper. And I got an education in movie trivia. I'll never look at that scene in Star Wars the same way again..." (it had been the speculum that triggered that recall of easy child 2/difficult child 2's - in the first Star Wars movie, in the scene where Princess Leia is about to be tortured on the Death Star, easy child 2/difficult child 2 insists that the torture robot in the Death Star is equipped with a speculum and an artificial insemination syringe).</p><p></p><p>Never a dull moment!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 390148, member: 1991"] Sveng, I love that one! Ten years ago I wrote an article about the challenge but also the amusement (coupled with embarrassment) of daily life when you have autistic kids. Some of the incidents, I have mentioned here before. In a nutshell: difficult child 3 saying the darndest things, as he tried to use what words he had, to describe his world. For example, having to shut the car window as we turned onto the expressway and began to go faster because "the wind is poking my eyes." Having difficult child 3 fixated on chasing birds of any kind wherever he saw them in flocks on the ground - it led to some embarrassing situations. In parks, little old ladies who have spent the previous half hour coaxing a pigeon to finally take a bit of bread from their fingers, got very angry when difficult child 3 charged through the flock and laughed with delight as they took to the air. And in Sydney' Central Station (railway) with its high vaulted stone ceilings, the pigeons come and go freely. In the McDonalds there we were ordering some lunch when difficult child 3 saw the pigeons - the place was crowded (think - New York Central Station!) and difficult child 3 chased the pigeons again, through the crowds. People with trays of food; people ordering food; people at tables eating food; hundreds of people and hundreds of pigeons panicking everywhere. We would have liked to pretend he wasn't ours... but someone had to grab the kid and get him out of there. And the time the new front-loader washing machine arrived. I immediately put it to work. An hour or so later I realised I hadn't seen the boys for some time. I found them both in the laundry, sitting on the floor in front of the washing machine as if the little window was a TV of some sort. Their heads were tilting this way and that in unison, as they watched the little window in the washing machine. difficult child 1 who was 15 at the time said to me, "I don't know why, but I find this strangely compelling..." They then took the box the washing machine had come in, and turned it into a mini fort which they set up in front of the TV/games console. They cut a small window in the box, filled the box with cushions then climbed in and threaded the game controllers through the box. They sat in the dark in the comfort of their box and played games, peering through their little cardboard window. Later that night I went looking for difficult child 1 and found him in the box, reclining (crouched) on cushions, doing his homework. And today - easy child 2/difficult child 2's intimate gynaecological procedure. SIL2 was there with her but she was still very nervous. So we talked. I got her started on a topic - movie trivia - and she kept talking about it while I played dumb and asked leading questions. Every so often from between her legs, the doctor put in a comment (or said, "OK, injecting more local now...") but we kept her talking about the fine detail trivia and in so doing, kept her panic level way way down. This doctor is smart - he quietly thanked me afterwards; he had realised how terrified she was and also spotted what I was doing. He said more loudly, "You came through that like a trooper. And I got an education in movie trivia. I'll never look at that scene in Star Wars the same way again..." (it had been the speculum that triggered that recall of easy child 2/difficult child 2's - in the first Star Wars movie, in the scene where Princess Leia is about to be tortured on the Death Star, easy child 2/difficult child 2 insists that the torture robot in the Death Star is equipped with a speculum and an artificial insemination syringe). Never a dull moment! Marg [/QUOTE]
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