Comments on: Autism - Strategies a Way of Life

By: Marla Baltes

Marla Baltes — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:27:43 +0000

I feel like I have learned to live life to avoid melt downs. Making sure we use the same toothpaste and put her to bedin the same way and on and on and on. Some days I do better than others. I will say it is all very tiring to me.

By: Elissa

Elissa — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:51:24 +0000

It gets to the stage where what other people think of as weird or strange we think of as normal!!!

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:41:03 +0000

Like you said, it becomes second nature. One thing that I’ve learned about Adrian that I think is sort of funny is when I put his jacket on the zipper MUST be up ALL the way and he MUST have his hood up. It’s something I don’t think twice about and my husband put his coat on one day without zipping it and he threw a fit and my husband didn’t understand why he was throwing the fit. I turned around, zipped his coat, put his hood up, and he was perfectly fine. It’s just little things like that that I don’t even think twice about.
It all become routine, no matter how strange or precise it must be.

By: Casdok

Casdok — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:49:56 +0000

They sure do!!!
And we dont always realise, and then you wonder why people are looking at you as you flap down the street with your child!!