Oh god, my kids are overexcited and vile

[Cheekysquirrel]

Next year I must remember to not even mention Christmas until about the 20th December.
ASD ds is totally off on one and dd - 3 on Christmas Eve - is no better. That fact it’s her birthday AND Christmas is making it worse.
Ds cant cope with it being dd’s birthday and her having more presents than him even though he is 9 so old enough to understand. A friend just came round with Christmas presents and a birthday gift for dd and ds is lying on the sofa wailing because dd has one more gift than him (yes, her birthday gift). Dd is wailing because it isn’t Christmas or her birthday yet. I’m embarrassed by them both and could quite cheerfully go out and not return until Boxing Day!

I fear Christmas is going to be a disaster.

Have a glass of wine. This too shall pass!

Re the difficulty with presents, have you considered doing a social story for your ds about it?

Huge sympathy here!
ASD and Christmas is a tough combo. Mine has had two days of grouching and grinching because he can’t cope with the school wind down but masks it in school so I get the brunt of it.
He is scrupulously fair minded but we don’t always agree on the starting point for his logic! The problem with unequal gifts isn’t one we’ve had to deal with but I’ve had similar faulty logic. And there’s no budging him if he thinks he’s right.
It’s so difficult getting the right balance of fun and stability atChristmas.