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Long Car journey from hell tomorrow tips?

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MustSurviveThis · 18/04/2022 16:13

Will preface this with my brothers autistic and I love him dearly, but his quirks can be inconvenient.

Tomorrow we have somewhere we need to be together, we can’t get out of it. I drive, brother doesn’t so he’ll be coming in my car.

He will have all 4 windows open for the whole hour journey. He can’t cope with just air con, or only 1 window it has to be all 4. Last time I almost froze to death (even in the middle of the summer as it’s a motorway drive so fast road), so will be layering up, any tips on what to wear?

Also how to get over his innate chatter about his current obsession? I make the usual “Sounds great” “Yes” noises but then he asks me questions and expects me to know the answer so I have to listen to it all in great detail, it’s not something I can just google the answers to as it’s a very niche interest. So tips on making sure I extract the most useful information so I can answer his questions?

And no telling me not to take him in my car, I have to, like I said it’s something I can’t get out of.

So AIBU to ask for your tips to survive the 2 hour round trip please?

OP posts:
gogohm · 19/04/2022 22:19

I let dd choose the music, she blabs on about it usually too. She's autistic too

Mumteedum · 19/04/2022 22:20

Aw pleased to hear that @MustSurviveThis. Nicely done ✅Wink

mumwon · 19/04/2022 22:53

You did well op - sometimes anticipating things we all tend to think of the worst scenario so when things are not as bad as we feared its a real relief!!

Duchess379 · 19/04/2022 22:53

I'm so pleased it all turned out ok. And that you got a Maccy Ds out of it. ☺️👍🏼

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