I liked
" i'm with neurotypical >>>>"
Made me giggle

also like:
" i live in my own little world
But don't worry
People know me here"

Also like:
" Discipline does not cure Autism...but thanks for your concern"

People might well make remarks about ds being naughty, I'm usually too busy hanging on to him to notice. I've had the odd occasion, for instance when I foolishly tried to stand in a post office queue with ds, I could hear an old man behind me confiding to someone else that ds just needed a good smack. I usually don't say anything (just stew on it all the way home and think up a thousand smart-but-too-late remarks ).

The most fun thing though is the hairdresser's. Ds is 9 yo and hates having his hair touched at all so I have to hang on to him for dear life while he struggles and cries and the fab hairdresser snips away at warp speed. There is always a sort of stunned silence from the assorted grannies under the dryers and then one of them will pluck up the courage to ask something like "how old is he?". Nowadays it just makes me smile to myself .

I also like NT's are all the same!

i agree bullet, LURVING the ninja one!

I love the Ninja one .

I really liked:

'Yes I have autism. Stare if you must. I won't be paying any attention to you anyway.

And

'HF = No support Services'

Personally, I'd rather not use my DS as a message board. He doesn't wear brand names either, so diability awareness, although important isn't something I want him to advertise. I might do it myself though.

Just had a look at that link. I need to buy ds2 the "Autistic by day, deadly ninja by night" one!

"if you stare long enough you might cure my AUTISM, and then we can work on your social issues."

LOVE IT! I think we should all have one!

When we had DS2's MS nursery visit last year, the SENCO "forgot" to tell the teachers he had autism, and a few of them made comments like "wow, we will have our hands full" and "he is quite energetic isnt he". I cried through most of the visit.

How about "Tastes like chicken" for all those kids who like to lick random things when out and about?

Great links knickers and jemmm - I particualrly liked "if you're happy and you know it flap your hands". made me

may well get dd a couple of them, as I find the NAS one is quite hard to read when on her...

silverfrog Someone beat me to it...

t-shirts.cafepress.co.uk/kids-and-baby-clothing/design/20994252

Personal favourite - "I get flappy when I'm happy"...

some good t-shirts on this website (warning! some are also very cheesy)

t-shirts.cafepress.co.uk/autistic-spectrum_kids-and-baby-clothing

How about:

'If I'm crying on my own, don't approach me coz you'll make things worse. My mummy knows where I am and is keeping an eye on me from a distance!'

Hello Nyrrem

I saw a boy at LegoLand on Sunday with one of those 'Im not Naughty' T-shirts which I thought was really cute.

I would love one that says 'Please dont get in my face, I am likely to scream'

I get that, and had enough of mysonben's example to delay ds3 gettuing an appropriate dx and placement by a few years

tell em to fuck off

I have a badge that says 'I Love my son with autism'

Oh and I still drink

(and yes he's very naughty indeed. and rude / belligerant / stressy / bad tempered..... and MINE)

Welcome Nyrrem

I got it all the time, worse from family (MIL doesn't believe ds1 has ASD).
I used to drink back then

The "to T-shirt or NOT to T-shirt" debate is nearly as old as the 'great dummy debate' - each to his own. My children do/did have dummies, and i rather like some T-shirts, but havent braced buying one yet.

I like:

"if you stare long enough you might cure my AUTISM, and then we can work on your social issues."

(DS5 is such a little dot the writing would have to be tiny to fit it on) OR

"please be nice to my mum, I have AUTISM"

and

"does my AUTISM look big in this?"

But i digress, my lot are sometimes naughty too (I have 3 with SN), because thats what kids do. I do use makaton, especially when out and about, i use it for DS5 constantly anyway, but its more pronounced when out and about and it does help with people understanding that somethings going on... However i do get bored of people asking if hes deaf.

Like you said, Starlight - sometimes your dd IS a very naughty boy . Mine too.

Tbh I get more irritated by those people who insist that a child is either autistic or naughty, as though they're mutually exclusive. My ds has Aspergers and is more than capable of being a little horror - on purpose - because ALL children can at times. It doesn't mean he's naughty all the time, nor does it mean that when he does behave badly it's for some autism-related reason like sensory overload. Sometimes he's just being a little sh*t and is pushing boundaries to see what he can get away with.

BTW, I hate those t-shirts - as part of the autism community I understand the message they're supposed to be relaying but tbh I don't think the public in general would get it. It looks like an excuse to many.

Hi Everyone, I've been a lurking on the SN threads for a while. My DS is 4.6 and ASD though without diagnosis until he's 7 (at which point they will almost inevitably 'label' him as Aspergers).

I would pay a LOT of money for a "No I won't trap my fingers T shirt".

Starlight - I too live in constant defensiveness. There are some people who just get it and support you and there are some who just don't

Nyrrem

oh yessss ! That infamous phrase "einsten didn't speak until he was 4 !" or 5 depending on who says it! I loathe it

starlight

now that I would pay money for, jemmmm

"LEA (or nhs/SS/insert as appropriate)say I can cope" - not at all bitter that Statementing has taken 18 months already and we are nowhere near a resolution...

"I've got autism what's your excuse?"

Actually, on reflection I think I prefer:

'My mum can't control me'

or

'I never get told off'

or, my personal favourite

'Product of Hertfordshire Early Intervention Service'

Not that I'm bitter or anything!

dd1 has one of those tshirts.

it does help (a little) but when she si squirming around with me trying to restrain her, no-one can read what it syas anyway

Thanks jemmm. I'd prefer:

'No, I won't trap my fingers'!

That said people should mind there own bloody business really.

lol mysonbed

And if anyone else mentions Einstein.........

Have you seen the NAS t-shirts...

"I'm not naughty, I've got autism".

I know of someone who's DD always wears hers for trips into town.

There we go: www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=624&a=7503

I haven't had that one yet but close enough..."he is not autistic , he's just very frustated because he can't communicate very well!"

Some people have no idea!

dh & I were talking abut this at the weekend.

dh had to pop into the opticians, and there is soething about the place that sets dd1 off. we have always managed ot distract her before, but hse was really bad this time

I ended up physically restraining her while she yelled at the top of her voice (thankfully the shop was empty!) and the staff tried hard to ignore us.

actually most of them were really great, and jsut got on andd distracted dd2 for me, but one gave us a really snotty look and I did feel like saying to him "do you really think she is just being naughty?" (dd1 was trying to get to the display glasses) I mean, really, how many NT naughty children do you have to hold in a full body lock, while obvously soothing and calming, when said child clearly has a langugae delay too?

thankfully (or not) dd1 is now of a size where it is apparent she is SN when she plays up (or I thought so anyway). it was harder when she was younger, as she is a big girl, so looked older than she was but was behaving like a naughty toddler...

btw sometimes he is a very naughty boy

No-one has said this to me, but I live in constant defensiveness in case they 'probably' think it.