Okay silly thread of things people say

[TheArsenicCupCake]

" but he can't have aspergers .. Because he can talk to adults...just not his peer group!"

( and as an off topic add.. Ds is currently memorising all the computers chess moves it make against another pc he playing it against!... For FUN)

She also talks about 'when dd was normal and bright', meaning before she lost her speech

"he'll speak when he's ready" - erm and that is meant to be reassuring how, precisely.....and "they all get there in the end" - really???

My DS is nearly 2 he has undiagnosed GDD - I regularly get -

'All boys are slow' (Really??)

'When will they fix him'

'I know a wee boy who didn't walk until 28 months (or insert any age after 2) and he's a doctor now (or insert any random profession)!

Slightlycrumpled - I laughed out loud too. Unbelievable

anotherbrick - i get this all the time too but for me the speak when he's ready is at the moment he'll walk when he's ready

You need to give him time to be autistic. It's like telling a musician they can never play. - odd family member

His autism won't just go away you know - stupid advisory teacher.

'they' are visual learners - stupid autism advisory teacher.

he's not autistic - lots of friends

is he high quality or low quality - odd friend

yes, I heard he had a mild touch of the autism - same odd friend

I also get 'you just don't have the patience to train her properly'

'I'd rather she was NORMAL and UNHAPPY'

ROFL

like your auntie I presume.

Yes, exactly

Dd is happier than anyone I know

It's a boy thing!!

'sometimes you can read too many books'

'have you tried being stricter with him'

'have you tried putting him in a strict routine'

'he just needs more attention'

'I went to a party last night and all the women there agreed he's just jealous'

'he's just a naughty little shit and needs a good smack'

not sure how many of these are funny but on some level I can laugh at them!

He needs a visual timetable

I hope you gave the last person a good smack!

Xposted, that was to smugtandemfeeder, but applies to all posts I think!

OK - DS said yesterday. He's learning tenses by rote. This is his own as I never taught it.

Mummy is going to wee, Mummy is weeing, Mummy has weed!

Cheers love!

"Einstein didn't talk til he was five"

Oh really! Thats good to know then

Einstein [random genius] didn't talk til he was 4, 5, 8, [insert random age].

Yes, but he had wierd hair

godot - einstein was talking by 3. I got so fed up of this one, one day I went to the library to check out a biography!

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You can't have respite because there are lots of children more disabled than your ds.

This child has no ASD traits on first page of specialist teacher report -2nd page of specialist teacher report observes him talking to himself, spinning on spot, running in a circle, echoing, using self talk to try to understand what to do in class, playing with same 2 friends and backing off when others joined in....
By the time I received this report ds had a verbal dx from CAMHS of ASD....

"oooh he (DS) can hear when he wants to".... said by many random people.

Nope he really can't, he is profoundly deaf. All the time!

MIL also used the term "deaf and dumb". Nice.

Ooh this is cathartic, I could go on all night!

Bigcar, I believe the aids actually spawned another pair on the manky rubber liner of the ball pool

"I have never heard of any mum leaving the child with a nanny for 11 hours a day. Poor thing, he must have been missing his mummy so much that he withdraw himself and didnt want to speak. You see now that you are spending more time with him he is so content and started speaking. Who is looking after your younger one?"...SENCO at the MS catchment school which made me decide he is not going there, she has no clue of SN. And all said in one sentence!

HT/SENCO asked me if I had tried not talking to Dd3 about her having a really bad time at school!!!.

I suppose if we don't talk about it, its not happening.