Anyone else have problems with Halloween

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Anyone else have problems with Halloween
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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 8:46am
Well Noah was excited all day about Halloween. He couldnt wait to go when he got home from school. I went kinda early. Well we started about 5:30 and walked up and down our street and Noah was fine. Now when the other trick or treaters started coming out Noah got his kinda confused/solemn look on his face. About 20 mins into trick or treating he started in with getting whiny and you could tell he just didnt wanna do it anymore. Than a house with a strobe light caught his eye so we went to it because he had to see what was going on. Well we walked up and these 2 men were out there with spooky music and the strobe light and the fake spider webs. One had a Albert Einstein looking mask on with a knife in his hand and the other had scary face paint with Edward Scissor hands on. Noah froze and he wouldnt even go up. He said he didnt wanna go and the guy with the scissor hands opened his hands to him and said "yes,yes you do wanna come up" and that was it, Noah lost it. He started balling and went to run off. And than as he was running off crying he seen 2 little boys from his class there which made it worse. He was being so hard on himself when we got home. He didnt wanna walk the rest of the way home either. He was terrified. Than he was saying how embarrassed he was that the boys had seen him. He said " I shouldnt have been such a hard head" than he said "Im not mad at anyone but I am mad at myself" I was like wow and had to explain to him that some people just dont like to be scared. So that was our haloween:D I hope those boys leave him alone today at school.
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Thu, 11-01-2007 - 11:07am

There is a house on the next block which goes all out for Halloween, The couple

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 11:23am

Like lots of things that are 'supposed' to be fun (birthday parties, funfairs, circuses, theatres, movies, swimming) I think Halloween can push a lot of 'not fun' buttons for some of our kids: changes in routine, people wearing masks (so you can't read their expressions), sensory issues, people dressing up and pretending (ie. 'lying' as an Aspie/ASD kid might see it), things being too loud/quiet/dark/uncomfortable. I never push these things. My 9 year old Aspie can't get away with being rude, and he has to try things he doesn't know yet if he will like, but I don't make him go through the whole rigmarole if it is genuinely causing him distress or fear. Society is not going to come tumbling down if a kid doesn't go trick or treating. I'd always have rather done my homework than make an idiot of myself in a costume I hated, and I manage pretty well...!!! :-)


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Registered: 05-28-2004
Thu, 11-01-2007 - 11:43am

I'm still on edge after bringing my guys ToT. My children insist on being ghosts. the older one has been a ghost for three years running. The younger guy had to copy him this year.


The fun part was when the three year old had to argue with

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