What things show the world you child's sn?

[lisad123]

Went to a wedding reception last night and dd2 had ear defenders and saw looking at lights for quite a while!! This morning at breakfast she was under the table

A few people asked about the ear defenders but I just said she doesn't like the loud noise, which is true.

What things

he's never seen in public he sits in his w/chair with a blanket over his head.
Sort of a give away really
When people ask i do sometimes say "its just because he is so ugly" they never know what to say

DS headphones dont really make him stand out so much due to everyone having something or other stuck in their ears with ipods etc. Its not until we go indoors to an event ie. parents meet up at dds school or dds concert where he as happily listening to his music and not what is going on around him. PPl then look as if he is being ignorant.

Its more his manner that makes ppl notice his sn. At the hospital this week he hadnt been to this one before and so he was unable to settle, had to feel his way all along corridors and then lost it when we got to an opening. Whilst waiting for xray he had to touch everythng wall wise, handle wise and then pounced on some switches that made a nice clicking noise. Nurses and docs sighing, ppl frowning until a doctor accidently lent on a homer simpson alarm clock thingy. DS marched up took it and found a corner and didnt move just listening to this toy. From the looks of "bad behaved" initially soon changed to looks of "pity" the latter irritated me more.

Dd3 sometimes rocks from foot to foot when she is agitated. She also gets v restless when queuing and can be shouty. Especially when things are not going her way.

I had lots of practise with cats bum faced ppl when Dd1 was younger so it tends to not really bother me what others think now.

Having a whole conversation without looking at someone.

Never saying please or thank you.

Refusing to go into the cold aisles in the supermarket and continually moaning about how cold they are from the end of the aisle while I leave him and continue choosing the yoghurts

Oh i forgot, never saying "hello or goodbye" , when we meet ppl she knows really well she will stare right through them.

I feel sad when this happens because i know adults judge her and think she is rude and actually she has very good manners in her own rule bound way.

DD walks 10ft in front of us, talking all the while with her back to us, but really on the heels of absolute strangers

The stroking of random strangers is a bit of a giveaway, as is the rocking of the head and Mmmmming when he eats.

He could win a medal for not acknowledging people when they talk to him .

Hahaha.

Where do I start?

It's telling that when the DoE opened her school, she was one of the select group chosen to greet him. She was discreetly restrained at a distance, to prevent her a) slapping him affectionately on the head and b) licking him. Both signs of great affection and esteem, but not generally accepted as correct etiquette for greeting royalty. [bugrin]

Namechanger here. [bugrin]
Mine is a teenager without sarcasm or an awareness of the romantic possibilities of the opposite sex, despite some heavy signalling going on from a couple of NT females at college.
He also sings to himself and has a very distinctive selection of tunes on his iPod.

r3dh3d, your DD might have left the DoE lost for words for once.

Randomly telling random people other peoples ages, "grandma is 72!" squeaking with excitment at a nice automatic door, having to shut all the gates as we walk along the road,

my friends daughter announcing in a queue in mcD that she has been really good today and not bitten anyone..

my ds saying the taught polite response of 'thankyou very much for my present' to his aunt, she said 'i am glad you like it' for ds to comment 'no, I think its a load of c##p' :)

The flapping and the Echolalia give it away :)

At the moment we have the first bit of The Gruffalo's Child on repeat.

The Gruffalo said that no Grufallo should
ever set foot in the deep dark wood
"why not, why not?"
"because if you do
the Big Bad Mouse will be after you"
"I met him once" said the Gruffalo
"I met him a long long time ago".

I always think of the Gruffalo as a London cabbie, after reading The Gruffalo's Child. "I had that Mouse in the back of my cab once..." [bugrin]

Dont you start :o - Its going round and round my head and he has been in bed an hour.

What did he look like? Tell us, Dad. Was he terribly big and terribly bad?

"I can't quite remember" the Gruffalo said. Then he thought for a minute, and scratched his head.

The big bad mouse is terribly strong. And his scaly tail is terribly long. His eyes are like pools of terrible fire and his terrible whiskers are stronger than wire.

One snowy night while the gruffalo snored, the gruffalo's child was feeling bored. The gruffalo's child was feeling brave so she tiptoed out of the gruffalo's cave. The wind blew fast and the snow fell wild. "I'm not scared" said the Gruffalo's child.

I know them all. Alas.

This is the tale of a tiny snail and a great big grey-blue hump backed whale...

This is our only JD book - His other favourites are all Eric Carle - I would be quite happy to throttle the mixed up Chameleon!

Dd1(AS) looks nt most of the time appart from when shes a little hyper and talking very loudly, when she runs she looks a bit odd.

Dd2 (ASD) flaps when excited, sometimes we use the maclaren major (which makes people stare) and sometimes she shouts random things or humms. I think now she's getting older its more obvious that she has sn's and people have stoped looking as suprised when i tell them she has Autism.

My dd's no longer wear the ear deffenders (sinse dd2 did the theraputic listning programme) but there are a few places she will not go due to sound issues and she still covers her ears (but hardly ever compared to what she used too).