He opened the presents :)

[RinkyDinkyDoo]

DS has never opened any presents,so we just placed his new toys out in the living room. He walked in,sat down and touched/moved them all,even played with some of them. We showed him the wrapped presents from other people,he said "Open them Joe" and he did. We said "what is it?" and he said for most of them "it's a box" and they were boxes, with toys in- hurrah! Happy Christmas to you all.x

Hi

Could be wrong but assuming you have DS with ASD, given his literal reply?

Great that he was able to interact with them. It sounds as if he enjoyed himself, and that you did too, as you could see he did.

Our DS has AS and is 7; we had a bad day with him with present overload, so glad your DS seems to have experienced a day where he could get an appreciation of what was offered.

Happy Christmas.

yes, 5years old and ASD and delayed speech and language. It was a bit too much for him over the whole day but he coped so well. He got a new bike (a green one) we kept his old blue one just in case he wouldn't accept the new one, but no, "I want the green bicycle" :)

Bless him, well done minirinky

Thats fab Rinky.

awww thats brilliant! glad he had a good time of it. :)

nice one :) merry xmas to you too :)

Brilliant - same here - great feeling isn't it (ds1 13 & severely autistic) with the usual warning that this links to a blog post I was so excited I wrote about it Christmas 2012: The Year Arthur died

that's so lovely

it is brilliant when our children 'get' opening presents, isn't it?

we had a breakthrough too this year - dd1 not only opened them, but also played with them

dh & I cooked lunch while both dds played together - now that is something I never thought I'd see!