Boys will be boys, ASD or not!
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| Mon, 06-12-2006 - 5:06pm |
I hope you all see the humor in this, but I am still laughing! I don't want to offend anyone, this took me by surprise, but I am still laughing at the experience. Warning, some content suitable only for adult audiences and asd moms!
Eric (4.5 yo) is in an arts therapy summer camp. They have small groups led by an ST and OT and the kids are grouped w/others who have similar skill levels--not purely by age. Each week they have a theme and their activities (arts and crafts, music and movement, cooking, sensory) are geared to the theme.
This week's theme is "Hawaii" kind of a strange theme, the others have been things like sports, animals etc. But there are good ideas for crafts and once a week they invite the parents to participate, so a lua is a good thing, I guess.
Anyway, the lobby where you wait is always decorated for the theme. Today they had construction paper-teacher-made life-size but conservative hula girls on the wall. When I arrived with Eric there were two older boys there, pre-teen, maybe 10-12. One would point to the girl and shout "breasts" then run around. The other, would go right up to the picture, touch her, then hand flap and laugh wildly, causing the other to go up, shout "breasts" -- a vicious cycle. You get the picture.
Eric, also a "breast man" thought this looked like great fun. He walked up, also said, "breasts" then looked at me and said, "just like yours!" All the moms were just sitting and laughing. This is one place where we can all feel safe, and maybe you had to be there, but it was funny. Well Eric's little friend, also a 4 yo arrives. Eric leads him by the hand and shows him the hilarity. This little boy says, "my mom has breasts too and my brother drinks from them." Eric said, "cool." Then Eric proceeded to say that women have breasts and men have...another member. The other boy said, "I know." Then the other boy, a very serious aspie type launched into a further discussion of anatomy. I can tell Eric was fascinated. (Guess I'm going to the library to get birds and bees books or something!) Meanwhile the shouting and excitement of "breasts" with the older two continued.
I was amused, as were the other moms. But I also can see that sexuality is an issue that is going to be a big one, as it always is. But I didn't expect it to come up at age 4! If this had happened at school, not at the therapy center it would have been upsetting not funny, so I am glad it happened where it did for all our sakes.
Fortunately, the ST and OT arrived. I didn't have a chance to ask what they had to do to get this crew off that topic!
Of course, DH is more proud than amused.
Like father like son!
Katherine

ROFLMAO!!!
I have all girls, no boys, but my AS DH(42) would have fit right in those kids!
~SG_1Niner
OMG! I am TOTALLY CRACKING UP!!!! I can sooooooooo picture that.
When I worked in a residential school there was this one boy. Probably 13 or so at the time. He was very echolalic and all his conversations were snippets of lines from here or there but often used appropriately. Well one day the school nurse walks in (who this boy just LOVED for her attributes) and he starts in under his breath "big boobs, big boobs".
Your story reminded me of that. If nothing else they are Still boys! I wish I could get mine to think of other girls as not evil incarnate.
Renee
Katherine,
I could just imagine the scene and it
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ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my goodness, now that is something I can appreciate.
Yes, well I think I told you all about when Mike had a heart attack, freakout, meltdown when he saw a x-rated dvd in his video game case. You couldn't even "see" anything on that one totally. Stuff was just covered enough.
So as far as books you have to think of the other side of aspies where all of this JUST ISN"T RIGHT, LOL.
Renee
That's easy. Just send him to the Nuns. They will snow him under with so many euphemisms,
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Renee, Kyle is like Mike when it comes to girls. If he sees kissing, or anything remotely sexual or romantic, on TV he covers his ears, starts screaming, and runs! If its in the movie theater he ducks and says cover my eyes, cover my eyes (even in cartoon movies). Its hysterical.
Katherine, thanks for the laugh. What a great story!
Samantha