My son has autism. He’s a kind soul, wouldn’t hurt a fly but incredibly loud. He just doesn’t seem to understand that the needs to then the volume down for the sake of others.
With the schools being shut I’m thinking I will do activities in the garden and let them play out there.
They haven’t played in the garden all winter. My garden is so muddy we would normally just go out and do things which we obviously can’t do anymore.
But I get so paranoid that my neighbours get annoyed with him. Our next door neighbour lives on his own and is great and knows what he’s like. He’s not home a lot of the time anyway (might be now mind), most of our neighbours have kids and go to the local school (it’s a close knit village) so I’m sure they also don’t mind but there’s a couple houses 2 doors down and opposite who are white elderly. I’m really paranoid if I send him out they’ll hate me.
This isn’t just the case of telling DS to be good. He is generally good just his general volume when doing things! He shouts, screams excitedly, screams, talks over the fence to people (social distancing now or course.
But if the schools close for weeks. I’m worried the neighbours will hate me. we don’t know all our neighbours so they don’t know that he has autism.
I’m not going to let him early not in the evening. All just be for short bursts though out the day!