DD and I are very mean.

[WinterWonderlandIsComing]

DS (aged four, has ASD) isn't very keen on animatronics. He is very wary of the moving elves by Santa's house in the mall.

We were all cuddled up on the sofa watching Tim Burton's, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" which he has seen in part before. He was asking about a jungle and we were assuring him that it would be coming soon. He was also absolutely REFUSING to go to bed despite having been up since 4 a.m

And then the factory gates opened and not only was there a horrifying display of animatronic dolls and a creepy song but there were fireworks which made them all catch flame and melt thus looking even more sinister. DD said that he was shaking behind her and then a little voice piped up, "I wan' d' go 'd' bed!"

DD was weepy-eyed and hysterical and I was snorting while DH ushered DS upstairs away from the evil melting robots. DH has just told me that he kept turning around suspiciously in order to check that Tim Burton's creations were not following him and it has set me off laughing again!

Wouldn't mind Johnny Depp following me up to bed

oooh poor thing you are meanies

Johnny is mine not yours

Dd2 freaked out at that part too

I've taped the rest of it and hope he can watch it later without the animatronics. Hope DD2 can watch it later lisa.

That freaked me out, and I'm a grandmother. I just saw a bit of this film and that's the part I saw. Nightmarish!

my odd little chappy loves it, ( he gets bored with the start of the film,so we watch from the point they arrive and the gates open to the end) doesn't bat an eyelid at the melting puppets, and loves the songs . He calls it the chewing chewing all day long dvd, (after the song).

However he has (suddenly and randomly) decided that the pontipines dancing in the night garden is outrageously upsetting, when questioned why his reply, 'the pontipines make me feel sad, the wottingers make me feel better' ????? ?

poor wee fella i wouldn't have sniggered either

one mention of 'Merlin' in our house is enough to have DD shooting up the stairs that comes in quite handy when it's time to turn the TV off, i mean, you never know when it might come on

at sudden and random "outrageously upsetting" things.

That sums up life for us with DS. I might use that phrase in the next DLA form.

He hates discordant music or anything in a minor key - it makes him cry.

Then again I was the same at his age and was a sobbing inconsolable heap the first time I heard, "We Three Kings" aged three and (apparently) NT.

Brahms lullaby...........still makes me want to cry. They used to have it on a testcard on TV in between watch with mother

I would be sat there bawling my eyes out every day till my mum worked it out. Same with Away in a manger