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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 588007" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>Hee hee hee. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>My t-shirt idea: "Why yes, I'm autistic, but right now I'm flapping 'cause you f*rted." </p><p></p><p>You know you live with autism when you have to lock up EVERYTHING at night.</p><p></p><p>...when you have to hide the space heaters in the summertime. And the winter coats. </p><p>...when you learn to help your teen with her sanitary pads in a public restroom.</p><p>...when you have to explain to an otherwise educated person "No, graham flour is not some special magical wheat free healthy snack safe for kids who are girlfriend." (This really happened.)</p><p>...when you have to explain to a family friend "No, she can't have 'just a little piece of matzah' at the Seder because God wants it that way." (Actually if there's a medical need, medical needs trump *all* traditions and laws of Judaism. Maimonides wrote extensively on this hundreds of years ago.)</p><p>..."If you give a mouse a cookie it will stay up all night stimming, grunting and reciting the script of every movie and cartoon it has watched since it reached the age of TV awareness."</p><p></p><p>(Incidentally, Kiddo didn't start the stereotypical flappy-stimmy hand behaviors until she was put in a ESY class that was primarily low functioning spectrum kids. She was the highest functioning in the class, and I said NO to ESY the next year unless they could come up with a better plan for the autistic kids who were all mimics/echolalic to some extent.)</p><p></p><p>(And they did! A private summer camp run by one of the local RC churches thought it was a GREAT idea, the school paid as it was cheaper to provide an aide and pay the camp costs than open a whole new class. It was a ROUSING success. Then the County Mental Health/Magellan Mental Health refused to chip in for aides because they felt keeping kids from drowning during the swim portion of the classes wasn't "medically necessary," and while reviewing their records on Kiddo for the mediation hearing I found errors that were pretty hilariously shocking. Especially in the diagnosis codes. But that's another story. As is the one where the U.U. camp kids went on strike until the staffers found snacks that were safe/fun for Kiddo AND everyone else so she wouldn't feel left out.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 588007, member: 15907"] Hee hee hee. :) My t-shirt idea: "Why yes, I'm autistic, but right now I'm flapping 'cause you f*rted." You know you live with autism when you have to lock up EVERYTHING at night. ...when you have to hide the space heaters in the summertime. And the winter coats. ...when you learn to help your teen with her sanitary pads in a public restroom. ...when you have to explain to an otherwise educated person "No, graham flour is not some special magical wheat free healthy snack safe for kids who are girlfriend." (This really happened.) ...when you have to explain to a family friend "No, she can't have 'just a little piece of matzah' at the Seder because God wants it that way." (Actually if there's a medical need, medical needs trump *all* traditions and laws of Judaism. Maimonides wrote extensively on this hundreds of years ago.) ..."If you give a mouse a cookie it will stay up all night stimming, grunting and reciting the script of every movie and cartoon it has watched since it reached the age of TV awareness." (Incidentally, Kiddo didn't start the stereotypical flappy-stimmy hand behaviors until she was put in a ESY class that was primarily low functioning spectrum kids. She was the highest functioning in the class, and I said NO to ESY the next year unless they could come up with a better plan for the autistic kids who were all mimics/echolalic to some extent.) (And they did! A private summer camp run by one of the local RC churches thought it was a GREAT idea, the school paid as it was cheaper to provide an aide and pay the camp costs than open a whole new class. It was a ROUSING success. Then the County Mental Health/Magellan Mental Health refused to chip in for aides because they felt keeping kids from drowning during the swim portion of the classes wasn't "medically necessary," and while reviewing their records on Kiddo for the mediation hearing I found errors that were pretty hilariously shocking. Especially in the diagnosis codes. But that's another story. As is the one where the U.U. camp kids went on strike until the staffers found snacks that were safe/fun for Kiddo AND everyone else so she wouldn't feel left out.) [/QUOTE]
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