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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 67502" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We found ourselves explaining to people yesterday that difficult child 3 has autism. We were leaving the restaurant - the tallest structure in Sydney - which meant a long elevator ride all the way down. The building looks like a KFC bucket on top of a very long tube. The elevator shaft is the tube. There are four levels in the 'bucket' and two levels on each elevator, which means that it sometimes loads like a gondola on a ferris wheel - load one level, then drop down and load the next, THEN drop all the way to the bottom, in the city mall.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 was already anxious because of the two-level elevator. He wasn't happy about it stopping and not opening the doors, even though he knew intellectually it was so t he people in the next level could get on/off. They have a closed circuit TV showing what's happening in the other level and you can wave to them and they can wave back. </p><p>We were a large group and the elevators are small. He somehow got shoved on with half the party, leaving the rest of us (including me and husband) to wait for the next ride down. But something went wrong (difficult child 3's worst fear) and their elevator came back. Down at the bottom someone had unloaded one level but not the other - they had been sent back up to the bucket. difficult child 3 was loudly angry (early anxiety). It was sounding very rude to other people around us who don't know us, so husband quietly said to a woman standing nearby, "He is autistic, his anxiety is getting aggravated by the elevators not working properly."</p><p>The woman smiled and said, "My husband was just saying quietly to me, that he thought he recognised autism. He works in Special Education." The accent was clear - they are from the US and had only been in Sydney for a few days.</p><p></p><p>I do worry about whether to say something or not. We tend to err on the side of telling people, preferably discreetly. difficult child 3 will happily tell people himself about his autism. But he was in no mood to talk about anything yesterday, other than getting down soon and safely. I tried to make light of it by saying, "It's not so bad. If they can't help us get down, at least we won't starve up here. They've just fed us a lovely lunch; they'll have to feed us dinner too."</p><p>He just glared at me (classic basilisk stare). Amazingly, I did not turn to stone. Maybe it's all the practice...</p><p></p><p>Thanks for this, Janna. I have seen it before but this time I'm keeping a copy.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 67502, member: 1991"] We found ourselves explaining to people yesterday that difficult child 3 has autism. We were leaving the restaurant - the tallest structure in Sydney - which meant a long elevator ride all the way down. The building looks like a KFC bucket on top of a very long tube. The elevator shaft is the tube. There are four levels in the 'bucket' and two levels on each elevator, which means that it sometimes loads like a gondola on a ferris wheel - load one level, then drop down and load the next, THEN drop all the way to the bottom, in the city mall. difficult child 3 was already anxious because of the two-level elevator. He wasn't happy about it stopping and not opening the doors, even though he knew intellectually it was so t he people in the next level could get on/off. They have a closed circuit TV showing what's happening in the other level and you can wave to them and they can wave back. We were a large group and the elevators are small. He somehow got shoved on with half the party, leaving the rest of us (including me and husband) to wait for the next ride down. But something went wrong (difficult child 3's worst fear) and their elevator came back. Down at the bottom someone had unloaded one level but not the other - they had been sent back up to the bucket. difficult child 3 was loudly angry (early anxiety). It was sounding very rude to other people around us who don't know us, so husband quietly said to a woman standing nearby, "He is autistic, his anxiety is getting aggravated by the elevators not working properly." The woman smiled and said, "My husband was just saying quietly to me, that he thought he recognised autism. He works in Special Education." The accent was clear - they are from the US and had only been in Sydney for a few days. I do worry about whether to say something or not. We tend to err on the side of telling people, preferably discreetly. difficult child 3 will happily tell people himself about his autism. But he was in no mood to talk about anything yesterday, other than getting down soon and safely. I tried to make light of it by saying, "It's not so bad. If they can't help us get down, at least we won't starve up here. They've just fed us a lovely lunch; they'll have to feed us dinner too." He just glared at me (classic basilisk stare). Amazingly, I did not turn to stone. Maybe it's all the practice... Thanks for this, Janna. I have seen it before but this time I'm keeping a copy. Marg [/QUOTE]
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