Ds's friend is over this morning for a play. He has autism, though is fairly high functioning and at a main stream school. Ds and him get along just fine, in fact his mate hero worships my ds slightly.
When playing his friend will have melt downs if he is not the character he is currently fixated with (Darth Vadar atm, or if he does not get the blue light sabre or the blue cup/plate etc.
Now of course, under normal circumstances I would intervene and make them take turns, share etc, but ovb I try to make ds realise that his friend likes blue so much, he should always have it.
How can I make ds understand the reasons for this? My ds gets very frustrated when his friends screams because he wants something, I hear him shouting he should share.
Am I expecting too much for a 5 year old to eb able to understand this?
Any advice/thoughts greatly appreciated.
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Advice needed on how to help ds deal with his autistic friend?
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DrNortherner · 03/01/2008 10:52
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