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| Sat, 10-01-2005 - 6:29am |
So, we're out yesterday and DS loudly announces in a quiet public place "I do a stinky fart" He's 8, and so I decide that I'd better start teaching him some manners.
Today, we're sitting side by side surfing on our PCs (yes, we're a family of geeks) and he lets rip and again starts to announce "I do a stinky fart" but mid sentence I stop him and say "mate, say 'excuse me'".
So he says "excuse me, I do a stinky fart"
Would you trade this life?

We were waiting in the (tiny) corner pizzeria, when this ENORMOUS black guy walked in. He was huge. Looked like Reuben Studdard's overweight cousin. Peter, about 6 at the time, and standing about 2 feet in front of the man, pointed and said "Look! A a big fat guy". (Enormous Fat Guy looked at him in an I-can-squish-you-with-one-finger way). I tried: "Peter! We don't say that" (actually, quite pleased that he had A) noticed, and B) shared).
"But why mom? He IS big and fat"
The three guys behind the counter (who know us well) all cracked up, and that set me off. I just looked at the man with a helpless shrug. EFG, who still wasn't seeing much humor here, just gave us a resigned look and ordered his 14 pizzas in a dignified manner (OK I'm kidding about the 14 pizzas),
We had a talk in the car on the way home about hurting people's feelings.
Yep. Life is always an adventure.
-Paula
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YEs it is always and adventure and NO I would not trade it for anything.
Ohh, I am so going to be hearing in my head all day "excuse me, I do a stinky fart".
Paula,
I just have to share something with you that actually does not involve an autistic person, but your story reminded me of it. My mom's 2nd husband had a moustache about 15 years ago. He saw a woman at the grocery story who had a bit of a "mustache" of her own, and he said to my mom, "Wow, that woman has a better mustache than mine." Well, she heard him...and no one has ever let him forget it. Incidentally, *he* is a huge guy himself, and a kid once looked at him and said, "Look! It's Andre the Giant!"
My son has said his share of embarrassing (to me) things. Usually, it's something like, he'll see someone throw a cigarette butt on the ground, and he'll say, in full voice, "What an idiot! Doesn't that dumb guy know not to litter and that cigarette smoking is disgusting and dangerous. GEEZ!!!"
When he was in preschool, we didn't know he has Asperger's. The preschool teacher told me that, while on the playground, some tough-looking young men walked by. David, who was at the top of a play structure, shouted something in their general direction, like, "Stop, you evil criminal-looking guys! There isn't room in this town for the both of us!" Apparently, the guys stopped and glared at him (a tiny little five year old) in a way that made the the teacher real nervous. I guessed, at the time, that David was playing some imaginative thing all by himself, and the two guys may have inspired the remark a bit, but he wasn't seriously trying to communicate with them.
Evelyn
:o) LOL