Do you find your children make you look like a liar and could get you hung!

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Just got back from my GP. There were concerns about ds being anemic , due to his restricted diet.

Anyhow we saw the nurse and she asked why I thought he could anemic, so I explain he has a extremely restricted diet, is looking very pale etc, etc. She seemed a bit confused as to what I meant by restricted diet and asks ds what he likes to eat.

He says he likes all vegetables and fruit, with mango being his fav! and chicken and fish (he doesn't!)

I then say to ds 'do you eat those things' and says I would, but you just don't buy them for me because you don't have enough money!

The nurse is then looking at me, as if I am mad! So I say to her, maybe we should ask the question slightly differently.

"what do you eat for breakfast" - cookie crisps
"what do you eat for lunch" - nothing
"what do you eat for dinner - chips
"what do eat for snacks" - crisps and bread

Do you find yourself having these awkward convos?

YES!!!

i was going to say this on the other thread, but didn't want to derail totally - DD has food issues, but recently told me I had told her she wasn't to eat certain food

apparently i said ' but you USED to like strawberries '

which she took so literally, as a statement

we're going to try again with those, and no past tense statements from me

Yup - DS told a member of school staff he doesn't particularly like, as he finds the person too instrusive:-

"What do you do at home with Mum?"

"I don't want to talk about that"

On being pushed for an answer

"Mum never plays with me, we don't do anything"

• translation = I refuse to be his playmate at 2am but am more than happy to be his entertainment between the civilised hours of 6am - 8pm

"Where does Mum take you out?"

"I don't want to talk about that"

On being pushed for an answer

"Mum never takes me anywhere"

-translation = the olympics meant that one specific park was 'orrible for a kid with sensory issues like DS, so we spent time in the myriad of OTHER spaces available in a major city like ours. I also had an eye infection that meant he couldn't temporarily go swimming (did things like horse riding, museum visits etc instead!)

On both occasions if only his CT or someone DS likes had asked they'd have got a monologue lasting 5 mins or more. As it was these answers were used as "evidence" against me to SS.

There are also issues in that if anyone outside DS's immediate circle of trust asks him how he's feeling he'll just say "fine", even if he's in agony. He's learnt the "polite greeting response" social rule, and can't yet see when he needs to make an exception the stock answer.

ripping yes, the other thread is what make me think of this one!

Same here boc with ss, when will 'professionals' learn to phrase questions and be extremely specific!

Ds told SS that his much older brother strangles him!

Translation = I was in my brothers bedroom, trying to find his mobile phone to flush down the toilet as his brother was 'guilty' of the terrible offense of saying 'Ive just in, I will bounce on the trampoline with you later'. You are not allowed to use the word 'later' with ds. He has no idea what it means and this means you are telling 'lies' and telling 'lies' warrants your mobile being flushed down the toilet!

So much older brother, puts his hands on ds's shoulders and escorts him out of his room, as ds is refusing to leave. which mean that he was 'strangled'

Just thought of another ds was asked "what do you worry about" a pretty open ended question.

He listed his dog dying, his mum dying, his mum getting angry, his mum shouting, his mum crying.

To the person asking the question, I am angry, crying and shouting!

Had they asked "does your mum get angry" he would have replied no, I just worry in case she does!

Same as the dog dying, he doesn't actually have to die for ds to worry about it!

Both of my dc are determined to get us arrested -

CT told me that ds had mis-behaved and before I even said anything to ds he said " you're not going to smack me!" - he's never been smacked, one of the other children was talking about getting smacked so he wanted to make sure he was going to be smacked - all in front of the class teacher.
When ds was younger echoilia was fairly prominent, he used to moan loudly - "I want my mummy!" I was with him and I'm fairly sure he's my ds. Usually in crowded parks with plenty of witnesses.
Dd 2yrs likes to do it to my dh now and he's had some funny looks as she lisps " but where mummy, I want mummy"

Speaking of echoilia and getting you arrested, ds announced very loudly in the school playground "my mum smokes weed" and repeated several times all the way back to the car!

When I questioned ds about why he said that and where he had even heard the word 'weed', it turns out it a was a Jeremy Kyle heading!

It will serve me right for having such poor taste in my TV watching!

DD told me a lad at playscheme had been playing fucking [shocking]

what she'd seen was him having a bit of a meltdown, kicking and shouting 'fucking....'

so glad i hardly take anything at face value

Yes, definitely. At one point I'm sure the school though DH was abusing DS2 as he used to cry and have a melt down if he picked him up from school. He also once got hit by another child at school and said "it was harder than his dad usually hits him". He never gets hit by his dad!

Oh dear!

Another time my mum stayed over and was having a wash in the bathroom, when ds walked in on her and asked what she was doing, she told him having a wash.

Ds told me "when nan washes her bottom, her teeth fall out" (dentures)

It's not always awful though is it? Sometimes they can make you chuckle and think bless.

e.g tonight I asked DS who was looking after him while his TA is off.

"I can't remember her name so I just think of her as 'Miss Pretty Nice'".

I think the lady would feel quite complimented if I told her.

Oh yes ds can be quite the little charmer, he has learnt that complimenting ladies always get a good reaction.

In the hairdressers, we were sitting waiting and there was an elderly lady having her hair coloured ie wearing a black gown, with hair colour on her hairline/forehead and her hair stuck flat to her head with dye and hair clips etc. Ds decided to tell "you look very beautiful"

Just imagine how good she will look once her hair is done!

I took my Dd 4 (NT) to see the GP about tummy aches, poor diet etc. There I am spouting off how poor her diet is blah blah blah and she then sits and tells the GP about her favourite foods being chicken, bananas, pineapple, rice.....the list went on!, of course she hadn't/wouldn't touch ANY of the above and these were the things I had tried to temp her with!! ...needless to say I walked away from the appointment feeling a bit of an arse!!

I'm probably lucky that DS1 is painfully honest. The only problem with that is that he comes across as incredibly rude! When he was interviewed before his AR, he said that DS2 distracts him and should be sent to a special school for children just like him They're 2 year groups and 2 classrooms apart, but DS1 always wants to know what DS2's doing, just in case he doesn't Approve.

If I has to grab DS hand to stop him running he would shout help me help me I don't know you I want my mummy!
I am his mum but gosh it made people stop stare and on occasions ask him if he was ok.
He was only five at the time

Ds is a perfectionist and is always worried about being naughty, upsetting us etc. whenever he has a meltdown or is non compliant (with a professional) he ALWAYS says "you hate me don't you?" Something that has never been said to him, it makes me cringe.

When he had the ADOS his obsession was Sparta, which he would read about, he was droning on and on about human sacrifice, the psychologist said does your mum let you watch this on TV? He said yes and I am a right Pyscho. Then he kept interrupting to ask if they like classic horror films. This is the boy who finds Eastenders terrifying, this is the first year we have been able to watch BGT because he was scared of it.

Had to be investigated by the SS over something my daughter said at her old school. Personally although i can't prove it the person and her colleague that reported me/my family was doing it out of spite (payback).
Thankfully the SS do write down what was said over the phone from the school as when the school had to fill out the CAF form (things were changed quite a bit) got the feeling that SS was not impressed.
After a few more stunts by said school, pulled my daughter out and she is now thriving in a local-ish special school and is now making better progress and is a lot more happier.