you know you have a child with SN when......(revisited)

[intothewest]

when you think 6.30 am is a lie in

when you are packing to go away for the weekend and there's no room for your stuff-the car's full of things you are terrified to leave behind in case dc wants a particular thing (dvd,teddy,toy,washing up sponge......)

When you avoid a certain route because you don't have tim for your DS to stroke every drainpipe on the way past.

When you take a pair of salad tongs on the school run, so that your DS can focus on them while waiting to go in.

When you have mobile numbers ( personal ) for 3 different consultants from 3 different hospitals in your phone!

When your 6 yr old give you a step by step account of what he's doing when he goes to the loo ( shouts through to where I am!)

When your biggest fear is that yoour child will be abducted - but not for the usual reasons, but for the fact that if he is abducted, regardless of what is done to him, he will die very quickly as the kidnappers won't be able to give him a 'drink' without extension sets or syringes!! I'm sure they'd bring him back......lol!

When you have to g to hospital and you child's 1st question is......is the doctor going to open me ?

When your child loves his paediatrician! ( Mummy does too )

When you have so many trains in your house you put Toys R Us to shame

When you realise you have no idea what/how much your average 6 year old would eat, in spite of having a 6 yr old yourself.

When you buy sick bowls by the 200! ( found a cheap place to do so if anyone is interested )

When spontineity is a thing of the past

When it's much easier to not let you LO stay over at Grans cos the prep is just too much work.

When you have to time EVERYTHING according to your child's feeding schedule ( or risk wearing the last feed)

I could go on and on...........

When you get up in the morning and grab your toothbrush and automatically go to your ds bedroom window to scrape some remnants of toothpast off because there is not point looking for the tube.

When you are helping ds with maths and you end up with a 2hr convo on WHY 2+2=4

When you auto say without looking up "DS go back and put your pants on for the 100th time of the day.

When you come downstairs and find your cat looking like he has had an electric shock only to find he has been sprayed with hairspray because ds didnt like the way his fur lay and it annoyed him.

BettyBoop - have you tried poaching the chicken? It stays very pale then.

THANK YOU!

I've been feeling so isolated this week, and just reading this thread (together with a post by another Mum who "got" my irritation with the phrase "complex needs") has made me feel soooo much better.

When you dare not wear toenail polish since the one and only time you tried resulted in a kid that sobbed for 3 hours straight.

When you have heard the convo between the 11th Doctor and Amy Pond in espisode 3 for the 14th time that day, and you haven't even had your morning coffee.

When star wars lego is saved for each month with the same priority to your household budget as the mortgage.

When child has a melt down at after school club, because even though the manager followed Mums recipe to make the pizza, the poor man didn't add the toppings in exactly the right order.

When your 5 year old's teacher pulls you to one side to say that your son is not wearing underpants again.

When your 5 year old's teacher states he's the first kid she's ever taught that asks to work in silence.

When your child runs screaming from random adults, such as a very nice Aunt or your Mum's next door neighbour, a retired kid's nurse. BUT strikes up random conversations with wino's on the bus.

When you are an expert at online grocery shopping to the point the physical supermarket leaves you feeling disorientated.

Lol at the Doctor conversation bochead we have that very episode on now. It's the 'keep buggering on' phrase that Churchill says that makes me , esp when it's said in polite company!!

Ds2 has an embarrasing habit of repeating Matt Smith's line of "Humans, you're like RABBITS!" in crowded places. :o

On the subject of cats ....

When you come downstairs to find that the cat's whisters have been snipped off to the same length as the one short one he had - to "Make them all the same"

When your child says 'let's pretend xyz' and you say 'which film is that from?'

when portage come for their first visit and say, wow, we won't need to be lending you any toys, but you know that your child will want to play with just one or two things over and over again.

when you start signing at random people who have no idea what you are doing.

Oh, so get that random signing one. The number of people in their cars who have forgotten to put their lights on and I'm frantically signing 'lights' at them!

Ah, so that's what the hand signals that my DH keeps getting when he's driving
To all you star wars slaves - my DS1 is a Sith Lord today. DS2 has asked me to play a 'normal' game with him - as he doesn't get it. DS3 (3yr) is playing as he will just do as he's told without question.

Like today when your DS has covered himself in orange PERMANENT pen saying he is the mad orange that his 10yr old sis has showed him on youtube AHHHHHHH! Good job I got a week to scrub over half term!

cof33pot - hand alcohol works wonders on permanent pen. Will need some moisturising afterwards right enough...

Cheers! (runs off to Boots!) :o

When your ds thinks a sign saying 'buy xyz here!' is an instruction not an advert.

This has caused so many meltdowns, even on the tv he is always telling me what I should buy!

One of the reasons I love dvd's.

when you can't borrow books from the library-because he won't get the concept of giving them back - once something has come in to the house ........

When your DH has just found his special watch under DS bed covered in gunk (toothpaste again) and DH tells him he isnt happy about it.
DS says "that was when I was younger (obviously we only clean his room every 3 yrs or so lol) and I havent been in your room all day today I hope that makes you happy now daddy" :o

When your ds lets you have a choice of what to watch on t.v.
Either football or weakest link he says - however what he fails to say is that both of these are Doctor Who episodes. Both of which have been watched countless times.

loved all the cat related stuff... LoL,

I also do the randomn signing, sometimes I can't think of the spoken word, but still remember the sign and end up saying "you know, you know....the 'sign'"

have shared some of the above with dh, who says " well these are very normal and understandable things...!!"

, Yep, am pretty convinced he's on the spectrum too,

hahahahaa :o You know what? You live with the querks that long it IS normal lol :o

when you can't leave the house in case there's a 3-door hatchback anywhere. For 6 months.

When your ds has had a temperature just shy of 40 degrees accompanied by a hacking cough, the shivers and a ghostly white face - for two days, but insists he's not ill and feels absolutely fine.

Your house has smelled of wee and poo for 12 years and still counting.....

you have to hide the phone handset or face the angry emeergency operator (again)

you try to explain for the umpteenth time that saying to a random person walking dwn the street "Hello, I'm xxx doesn't mean they are NOT a stranger.