Ds’s school are doing WBD tomorrow. The theme is a series of books and they have to dress up as one of the characters. We were given notice about this about a month ago so there’s been plenty of time to get costumes together. From speaking to other mums at pick up it sounds like there’s a lot of very elaborate costume making going on, as it’s a specific theme it’s not easy to just buy a premade costume.
From the beginning ds was saying he didn’t want to dress up and would just wear school uniform. He’s autistic, hates any kind of dressing up and has always just worn his school uniform to previous events like this, even if it’s just a generic non-uniform. He’s never been bothered that he’s the only one not dressed up.
At 6pm he announced he wants to dress up 🙄. I’m actually quite pleased as he’s never even contemplated it before. However, even though I do actually have enough bits lying around to be able to make an ok attempt st an outfit he has dismissed my suggestions. He wants to wear a plain t-shirt with the name of the character written across it in pen.
Will that be ok? The letter home about it says that if children don’t want to dress up they must wear school uniform, if they turn up in their own clothes they will be asked to get changed. I’m worried it will look like he just wanted to wear his own clothes, especially as he will put a jumper over the top of his scribbled on t-shirt. I have suggested that he could wear a long sleeved t-shirt under his ‘costume’ t-shirt but he looked st me as if I’d gone mad.
I’ve messaged his teacher but obviously don’t expect her to read it now before tomorrow. I’d hate someone to comment on his costume as he’s super sensitive and him agreeing to ‘dress up’ is a big thing for him.