Life with Autism

**luv2bslim** · 02-12-2003, 02:31 PM

OK, I am going to start a thread and post some of the funny quotes my 13yo son says. He has High functioning Autism and the things he comes out with sometimes are complete classics..
I just have to remember them

**luv2bslim** · 02-12-2003, 02:33 PM

James, where is your other shirt?

"it's broken"

Translates to..it has a hole under the arm...

**luv2bslim** · 03-12-2003, 01:04 PM

Todays quote
"James, where are your second pair of school pants?"

"They don't fit"

"Ok, so are they too big, or too small?

"Both"

"both?"

"Yes, both, they are too big and too small"

now he started looking confused

I was too, so I just left it at that..maybe they are too wide and too short, or too long and too narrow...who knows,??

**luv2bslim** · 05-12-2003, 04:02 PM

This weeks topic.. Tummy rumbling

James "Mum, my tummy keeps rumbling, and I feel sick"

..me..so do you think you are going to be sick

"No"

What happens when you eat?

"I feel better"

OK, then James, I guess you are just getting more hungry, and you are growing quick, and you need more food..thats why your tummy rumbles

"Oh, OK, so I am not sick then?"

and he has gone on and on and on about it all week...

Sarah said "James, there is nothing wrong with you, you are just getting hungry" so when I got home yesterday He said to me
"Mum, I am OK now, Sarah said there is nothing wrong with me"

Gee, if only everything was that easy

**luv2bslim** · 09-12-2003, 11:34 AM

Matt, James was about 4 before he started to talk. Right up until he was about 12 all his converstions were just the same question, repeated over and over in different ways..

eg
"Ok, everyone, we are going to the park"
James : Are we going to the park?

"Yes, we are"

James" are we all going to the park?'

"Yes we are"

James "Are you coming to the park?"
"Yes"

James "are we going to the park?"
etc etc etc...

Every morning for about 6 months he asked if it was going to rain today...I said one day, "what do you think" and he never asked again..he was going through a rain paranioa stage..

**luv2bslim** · 09-12-2003, 03:22 PM

Mat, James may not have been talking, but he was making sounds...
He still never ever yells, or screams, or gets angry...he's so easy because he does exactly what you tell him to do,(within reason) as ,long as it's not more than one thing at a time

Poor Nat at the speechies..they dont think sometimes how that would hurt a parent , thinking their child may never talk...then again, in a few years if she wan't talking, Nat may say "well, no-one ever told me she may never talk, why??" it can be a no-win situation for the speechie...
James stopped flapping, but pulls at the skin on his neck when he is stressed...all the while still smiling

Its a whole body language thing with him, and he twists his arms a lot too, and pulls the most awful faces when he is confused..it looks really funny..We are lucky he is only mildly affected, and most people dont notice anymore, unless they talk to him for a while...

**luv2bslim** · 12-12-2003, 05:09 PM

Also found out the fragile X test costs $450....merry xmas

is it claimable on medicare?

All stuff like that done here in the childrens hosp I think is free as it's a public hospital. Maybe it's time to join HBF for her so you can claim her therapy back. Here we have fairly good therapy services. There are good school age ones run by the disability services commission.
My daughter number 2 suffered severe head injuries when she was 4, in a mva driven by her granny (sounds like I live with a mob of disabled people...thats why I work!..to get away from them..) and we even had a physio come to the school, pick her up and take her to the local therapy pool for treatment..all for free...now she just has physio weekly at the building next to me here at work..shes 13 now...I hope they help you with that sort of thing as it can get really $$$$$

Poor Jess , she has had so much for someone so young

But as you said in an earlier post, there are soooo many more kids so worse off...the head injury department at PMH is not a nice place...I am lucky my daughter has nearly recovered..and it has been nearly 10 years of therapy..BTW, the granny broke her neck in the same accident...

**luv2bslim** · 23-12-2003, 11:46 AM

Sam, I will read it :-)

Everything has been quiet at home lately, no silly stories, just the usual ones

**luv2bslim** · 21-02-2004, 12:04 PM

Not many funny things lately, just the normal silly questions..
One made me laugh yesterday..

"Mum, do Choc Rush muffins make you run fast?".."is that why they are called *rush* because you are trying to run faster?"

When he came home from school yesterday, Mick had been pulling wallpaper off the entry wall..and he came and said
"Mum, why are the walls falling down?"

He knows what he means and I know what he means, but he just has trouble thinking of the right thing to say..lol..

**Alies** · 21-02-2004, 06:07 PM

God bless his heart and everyone around him

**Moonie** · 21-02-2004, 06:14 PM

God bless his heart and everyone around him

Well said

**luv2bslim** · 21-02-2004, 10:57 PM

And anotherone...

"My pimples fell off

"
"I don't know how...I just had a shower and when I came out, they were gone"

LOL..I guess they popped when he washed his face

**luv2bslim** · 03-03-2004, 05:18 PM

This morning James was looking at the newly painted wall...in all seriousness he said "these walls don't look like a biscuit colour, they look green to me" and I said "that's because the wall you are looking at *is* green, the one next to it is a biscuit colour!"...his reply..."oh yeah".."I didn't notice"

and his voice is breaking at the moment so I am looking foward to seeing if he has any comments about that..

**luv2bslim** · 10-03-2004, 10:33 AM

This has to rate as the single most stupid thing James has said to date

We went to Mass last night (Lent) and after mass the Priest was chatting to our kids and eating yummy food...You would never believe what James came out with...
"Father Doyle, Is God Gay?"
"My friends at school say God is gay" "I didn't think God was gay!"

Now, my other 3 kids are choking on their cake, Heather had to leave the couch before she fell off, and the priest, Bless him, said so calmly, "no James, God isn't Gay, he is a Spirit we believe in" and went on to something else..

What the kids at school mean is they think God is stupid, (gay being the slang word) not homosexual...but James..in his infinite wisdon figured they meant God was homosexual ...I can't help but laugh at this...ooopps..

**mutza** · 10-03-2004, 12:00 PM

thats so funny...... i think we just take it for granted that people can see through the smart remarks and comments and that they wont taken everything said so literally.... i learned my lesson many years ago when after having a really bad morning as my son was leaving for school i said.....ive had enough...i could kill u this very minute......

i had fogotten it about 10 seconds later... but when his teacher rang me telling me that mark didnt want to go home that night because his mother was going to kill him.... he had taken me literally and boy did i have a lot of explaining to do.... have never done it since tho....