Is everyone set for Christmas and what presents have you got for your SN child?

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I still have food shopping and cleaning to do.

Ds has only asked for Pokémon cards this year. I have also got him a Nintendo and some games. However, if I get him something he hasn't asked for he doesn't want it! So fingers crossed.

Last year he asked for a yellow felt tip pen and was most disappointed to receive a full pack of felt pens and other presents too!

So are you all set? What have you bought? and how will it be received on Christmas morning?

Well I cleaned the house yesterday hooray! including the cooker, so everything I cook wont smell like burnt spilled in the bottom, shepherds pie cooking anymore!

I will go food shopping later today and its starting to feel like Christmas now!

Ds will wake up Christmas morning, as if its just another day and unwrapping presents will take him all day! Each one will be opened, taken out of box, inspected then either tossed into the 'why did father Christmas get me that, never to be taken out of box' pile or 'I like it' then it will be taken upstairs to his room, where it will be lined up, before he opens the next.

I bought one of those steam cleaners ages ago Polter and I cleaned the oven with that. I have to say I wouldn't recommend it, my hands are raw, Oven Pride is much easier! I am one of those people who find cleaning quite therapeutic, so its never a chore.

Ds broke up over a week ago and it does make such a difference doesn't it. Ooooh Christmas tree, I did mine in November (how sad im I) ds has rearranged the decorations on it, several times and its a bit one sided and wonky with decorations down one side!

Will you have a wonky, one sided tree?

DD doesn't play with toys at ALL

So got her some books and musical books,a head massager, a back scratcher she will love to look at and stim with,some warm wool dresses and a freddo gift box (with a freddo toy she will ignore).

Ds doesn't play with toys either. Electrical devices such as xbox, ipod, laptop etc and anything he can line up and order or read is usually a hit.

How is your dd for opening presents Fanjo does she get excited or treat it like a chore?

She gets excited for about 1 present then wanders off.

Or she opens some but throws away the contents.

She totally loves the whole Christmas period though,is high as a kite day and night at moment, just not into presents..We don't have to hide them!

She likes bouncing and being tickled and things, or stimming looking at a spoon. She also likes music and singing.

Everyone has given me money and vouchers to buy her presents with..as if it's not hard enough choosing the ones from us

Well we got a new tree in November, seemed a bit pointless putting it up into the loft for just a few weeks, that's my excuse anyhow

My two older NT boys, used to write Christmas lists as long as your arm! Ds just thinks of one thing and that's it, he wont even look through toy brochures or comment on TV ads, so I am always clueless at what to get him, let alone what others should buy for him!

Same here, it has to be pretty obvious for ds to realise its for him, like his name written on it!

Does your ds actually build the Lego models as they are meant to be? Ds never used to like the models, preferring to just do lines of Lego or his own thing.

Ds's long standing obsession seems to be lines and symmetrical patterns.

I am off to face the hordes and food shop, luckily I don't have to take ds with me. Hope you have fun putting your tree/tinsel up

I have bought oven cleaner too - it's still in the box. Maybe next year?
So what sort of things does he make Polter? I like that approach to Lego. My DS3 is much more rigid in his approach we make the model (mostly Lego City) then woe betide if a piece falls off or it gets dropped (I feel stressed just writing that). Ds3 is much better at following the instructions than the rest of us but he has to be reminded to use 2 hands which is a bit weird. I wonder if it's sensory? I ordered that "too loud too bright . . . " book you were talking about the other day. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Polter - my DS is exactly the same (he has dyspraxia and SPD, not ASD). This is why I'm giving him the lego table because it has loads of plastic tubs underneath to stash all the dismembered minifigures in!

There are two massive cardboard boxes sitting next to my desk which have his presents in them - it hasn't occurred to him to ask what's inside them! I even left out some fiddle toys in the kitchen the other day and he found them and I said 'oh! They were part of your christmas present' and he said 'don't worry mummy. I'm such a forgetter head that I will have forgotten all about them by christmas and he's absolutely right.

Sometimes LDs can be quite useful!

Some great ideas here. My NT DS was writing his Santa list and offered to do DD's'list for her. Top of her list is some acorns, followed by a squirrel, a rat, a pumkin and a pixie
DS asked her what toys she wanted; she said some paints and some new pants. I'm hoping nobody at her school has asked her what she wants in case they think I only buy her new knickers at Christmas
Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas

Your ds sounds quite inventive Polter. Ds used to build patterns! a wall of symmetrical coloured Lego pieces. Prior to that it was cars, symmetrical patterns with coloured cars. Now it is colour coordinated pokemon cards, sorted into lines.

He loves reading about nature and loves animals, he cries when the RSPCA ad comes on TV!

Ds is 9 and still believes in Father Christmas, he will be horrified when he learns there isn't one, as I have 'lied'.

My 'NT' boys stop believing much younger. Do your dc's still believe?

obviously!

Ds did waver when he was much younger, in fact too young to not believe! I made one of those Santa video's, where Santa knows child's name etc and you attach a picture and Santa shows this to the child during the video.

Rather than being delighted, ds was scared stiff, he wanted to know how did Santa get a picture of him, did he break into our house and then if Santa can get into our house to deliver presents, then anyone can!

Wow all these Lego things built sound great. Ds doesn't make anything apart from what it was intended to be. He broke some up a while back (thanks dn)and I suggested he made something from the pieces. He didn't have a clue what to do as there were no instructions!!