As some of you may remember, ds1 has a verbal diagnosis of Aspergers and has been referred for formal assessment.
With that in mind, I just had a worrying few minutes when dh told me that he had to tell ds2 off at the park yesterday because he was swinging on the swings singing "Berger boy, berger boy, you're an asperger boy!" to ds1! and and (Not least of all with dh for only telling me about it tonight!)
Obviously we were really upset by this and wanted to get to the bottom of it. We thought initially he may have heard it at school.
So, just had a quiet chat with ds2, only for ds1 to interject with "Oh I taught him that Mummy."
Apparently ds1 told ds2 some weird story about a shop called As that sells 'burgers' called AsBurgers! He swore I'd told him about it as well!
When I asked ds1 what he really understands about Aspergers, he actually has a really good grasp of the basics. [phew]
So I sat the three of us down and had a nice little chat about what Aspergers really is, how you never label people or use their illness or disability to be unkind or tease them in any way and how everyone is different and special etc etc. To which they both looked at me and said words to the effect of 'Duh Mum, of course we know THAT, everyone knows THAT!'
That was definitely on eof the weirdest half hours I've spent in a while.