Re: Re: Is Sitting While Autistic a Crime?

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Sometimes if he wants to go in the men's room, I open the door and ask if anyone is in there, if no one answers after several times, I go in and check.  If they want to arrest me for that, so be it.  If someone is in there, they should have spoken up. Then I let my son go in and stand guard at the door and don't let other males in until my son comes out.

The " family " bathrooms are often acoustically unacceptable and painful to my son.  Why has not one figured out that the light and fan switches need to be separate so the fan can be switched off but the light left on? 

At one time, my son was so sensitive, he was just too terrified to go in a public restroom, and since we live far away from the city (sixty miles to his doctor) what the heck do you do?  We had to get a pee container from Dr. Rao's to keep in the car in case I could not find a sensory friendly bathroom my son would go in.  This is embarrassing, but what else were we to do?   I once tried to force him into the bathroom, and that was a disaster.  I wound up with pee all over me, him, and a doctor's waiting area.  Evidently, building designers just don't get it yet.