What are You doing right now?

[Parts]

Painting

A room or a picture  Or a picture of a room

[GalileoAce]

I'm thinking.

[Phlexor]

Waiting for the wife to get back from dropping our youngest son off at kinder so then I can take the older boys to see Star Wars The Clone Wars at the cinema. First session of opening day here. Less people, less chance of freaking out in public.

If my kids were prone to freaking out, I would not reward them by taking them to the pictures.

They should be beaten until they promise never to cry again.

In theory that sounds like a good idea. But in practice, no matter how much a keep up with the beatings, it just never pans out.

So, the idea is that you take a child who has sensory dysfunction issues, social rejection tendencies, trouble understanding body language, very little connection to those around him/her to begin with and stims like a monkey when too much sensation from any source invades said child's safe space AND we are going to teach this child to NOT stim, NOT to avoid social situations, learn what body language means, help them make social connections to other people and NOT react to stress by beating the hell out of said child.

Yeah, like that's really going to work. 






... although, I DID seem to learn decent use of eye contact from being hit for looking away. Maybe there is something to all this.

Hopefully you knew I was only joking right?

[vodz]

I wasn't.

[odeon]

I don't see your point at all, then.

[Parts]

being very nervous and unsure why

[TheoK]

Take some Valium. 

[Parts]

Take some Valium. 

Took some Xanax instead

[Callaway]

I wasn't.

You weren't joking?

I thought you were.

You really think that parents can beat the issues that go along with autism out of their children?

I see your point about not taking them to the movies while they are actually misbehaving, but if you have a child with issues that arise mostly in public, then how will s/he ever learn to behave properly in public if the parent keeps him or her at home all the time?  Sure, you could avoid some difficult situations by just keeping them at home, but I think that is a short-sighted approach.

Autistic children do not melt down in public just to spite their parents.

[Phlexor]

I wasn't.

You weren't joking?

I thought you were.

You really think that parents can beat the issues that go along with autism out of their children?

I see your point about not taking them to the movies while they are actually misbehaving, but if you have a child with issues that arise mostly in public, then how will s/he ever learn to behave properly in public if the parent keeps him or her at home all the time?  Sure, you could avoid some difficult situations by just keeping them at home, but I think that is a short-sighted approach.

Autistic children do not melt down in public just to spite their parents.

Shit, there are times when I can still manage a meltdown in public.

[Callaway]

I wasn't.

You weren't joking?

I thought you were.

You really think that parents can beat the issues that go along with autism out of their children?

I see your point about not taking them to the movies while they are actually misbehaving, but if you have a child with issues that arise mostly in public, then how will s/he ever learn to behave properly in public if the parent keeps him or her at home all the time?  Sure, you could avoid some difficult situations by just keeping them at home, but I think that is a short-sighted approach.

Autistic children do not melt down in public just to spite their parents.

Shit, there are times when I can still manage a meltdown in public.

I have had them too when I have been under a lot of stress, even though I try very hard to keep them inside.

[Callaway]

Dishes, laundry and supervising my daughter while she picks up her room, which is only about twice as hard as just doing it myself, but she needs to learn.

 

[Parts]

I wasn't.

You weren't joking?

I thought you were.

You really think that parents can beat the issues that go along with autism out of their children?

I see your point about not taking them to the movies wpotTBILISI, Georgiahile they are actually misbehaving, but if you have a child with issues that arise mostly in public, then how will s/he ever learn to behave properly in public if the parent keeps him or her at home all the time?  Sure, you could avoid some difficult situations by just keeping them at home, but I think that is a short-sighted approach.

Autistic children do not melt down in public just to spite their parents.

Shit, there are times when I can still manage a meltdown in public.

I have had them too when I have been under a lot of stress, even though I try very hard to keep them inside.

Do you practically explode when you get to a safe spot?  That's how it goes with me

[Callaway]

I wasn't.

You weren't joking?

I thought you were.

You really think that parents can beat the issues that go along with autism out of their children?

I see your point about not taking them to the movies wpotTBILISI, Georgiahile they are actually misbehaving, but if you have a child with issues that arise mostly in public, then how will s/he ever learn to behave properly in public if the parent keeps him or her at home all the time?  Sure, you could avoid some difficult situations by just keeping them at home, but I think that is a short-sighted approach.

Autistic children do not melt down in public just to spite their parents.

Shit, there are times when I can still manage a meltdown in public.

I have had them too when I have been under a lot of stress, even though I try very hard to keep them inside.

Do you practically explode when you get to a safe spot?  That's how it goes with me

Sometimes I do, but I am more likely to stim than to explode when I get to a safe place.

[duncvis]

extracting a crumb from my ear. got the fucker!

bloody kids.