please could someone explain the no sense ofdanger thing to me

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This wasn't a feature with my own lads but a friend's son has just been dx'd.

why is this associated with the ASDspectrum?

Is it about a lack of understanding of the world?

for my ds its his extreme reaction to things that put him in danger.
So for example if crossing a road something startles him his reaction would be to sit down & cover his ears, it wouldn't matter if a lorry was coming.
He would also follow instructions to the letter with no independent assessment of danger.
So if I told him to go & get in the car he would even if the road wasn't clear to get to the car.

My DS has control issues, meaning he thinks he is invincible. He thinks he can stop any cars that come toward him or smash them to bits. Likewise, when school tried to explain about fire risks when he was repeatedly running out of class, he told them he would just fight the fire.

Conversely, he is deathly afraid in car parks where there is no pavement, petrified of dogs and any flying insects.

DS1 used to think exactly like that, Sahkoora. He still does, occasionally, but that sort of thinking is now usually confined to when he's already lost in the red mist.

DD's sense of danger is very erratic, her road sense swings from one extreme to another. She knows about waiting for traffic until it's safe, but gets impatient and panics and if we've been waiting a while will make a run for it quite impulsively.

Her sensory disorder has her terrified of walking past brambles and other thorny plants, she also has skewed perception of bikes and scooters moving towards her.

Like someone said upthread too, a noisy motorbike will have her freeze on the spot, no matter where we are.

DD has recently told me she has invented a new way to cross the road safely.

It involves wind resistance and waiting to feel air moving,as moving objects are often too blurry for her to see accurately. . .genius until I realised she was serious

DS is 5 and hi srelates to lack of awareness of what's going on around him. He knows about stopping at roads, but will only recognise a road if there is a definite curb, otherwise he just keeps walking. He runs off all the time and obviously has no idea about the implications of this. Also, he hates walking next to people so will only walk (run) way in front of me or dawdle 5 metres behind me. The other day I turned round to check on him and a man was reaching out to him because he didn't realise he was with anyone. I thought the man may have been trying to be helpful, but when I came up to DS, he (the bloke) turned and ran off in the direction he'd come from. Very scary, but DS didn't even notice.

Like Polter's DS, mine also has hypermobility and poor body awareness that means he often bumps into things and trips over more frequently than NT children.

zen1 that bloke sounds really scary and probably worth reporting to the police with a description?