Guest guest Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 , What a great story! My son has come up with some of the most humorous and sometimes touching quips, quotes and stories, too. You know, you are such a charismatic writer, that if you could ever find the time, writing a book about things just like these, would offer us a little light and laughter, not to mention insight, into what truely remarkable children we have. I really appreciate your postings!! Leah Happy days I just wanted to start a thread about the little things our kids do that bring smiles to our faces. Whatever it is I would like to hear about it. I used to take the little things for granted, my older daughter is NT and a social butterfly (very unlike me or my husband, we're not sure where those traits came from!), she has never had any problems and developed like every average kid. Every time achieves something that he struggled with I can't help but have mixed feelings, joy and sadness. Anyway here is my smile for the day….. never had a sense of humor. This is a big part of our house and one way we cope, whether it's silly, dry or even gallows humor we try to find the funny in everything. We tease each other but were never able to do that with and anytime we tried it was a cause of anger and frustration. Finally, discovered humor. I am not sure what happened but something clicked and he saw the light. This happened a couple of years ago, not too long after 9/11. There was a joke going around school that he told me. He laughed like crazy when he told me and I laughed too but then he looked at me and said he did not understand why it was funny. I explained it to him and at that moment he started to " get it " . Here is the joke: Do you know why the little old lady with knitting needles was kicked off the airplane? Because she was knitting an afghan. knew that an Afghan was a person from Afghanistan but did not know that an afghan was also a knitted blanket. Once he finally realized that things can have more than one meaning and that these meanings can be related but not necessarily the same he was delighted. I think that he just finally got old enough to put the ideas together. What a wonderful day. I spent a long time that day dredging up old jokes for him; it was great to see those wheels turning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 , What a great story! My son has come up with some of the most humorous and sometimes touching quips, quotes and stories, too. You know, you are such a charismatic writer, that if you could ever find the time, writing a book about things just like these, would offer us a little light and laughter, not to mention insight, into what truely remarkable children we have. I really appreciate your postings!! Leah Happy days I just wanted to start a thread about the little things our kids do that bring smiles to our faces. Whatever it is I would like to hear about it. I used to take the little things for granted, my older daughter is NT and a social butterfly (very unlike me or my husband, we're not sure where those traits came from!), she has never had any problems and developed like every average kid. Every time achieves something that he struggled with I can't help but have mixed feelings, joy and sadness. Anyway here is my smile for the day….. never had a sense of humor. This is a big part of our house and one way we cope, whether it's silly, dry or even gallows humor we try to find the funny in everything. We tease each other but were never able to do that with and anytime we tried it was a cause of anger and frustration. Finally, discovered humor. I am not sure what happened but something clicked and he saw the light. This happened a couple of years ago, not too long after 9/11. There was a joke going around school that he told me. He laughed like crazy when he told me and I laughed too but then he looked at me and said he did not understand why it was funny. I explained it to him and at that moment he started to " get it " . Here is the joke: Do you know why the little old lady with knitting needles was kicked off the airplane? Because she was knitting an afghan. knew that an Afghan was a person from Afghanistan but did not know that an afghan was also a knitted blanket. Once he finally realized that things can have more than one meaning and that these meanings can be related but not necessarily the same he was delighted. I think that he just finally got old enough to put the ideas together. What a wonderful day. I spent a long time that day dredging up old jokes for him; it was great to see those wheels turning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 , My favorite times with my son is when he tells knock knock jokes. My son is 5 and you can imagine the jokes that he tells. Needless to say whether they make sense or not I still laugh at all of them. His latest one is Knock Knock, who's there, cargo, cargo who, car goes beep beep. So of course both of us just crack up laughing. So it puts a smile on my face when he tries. He might not get it right all the time but hey he's trying. in Ajax. > >Reply-To: autism-aspergers >To: autism-aspergers >Subject: Happy days >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:08:44 -0000 > >I just wanted to start a thread about the little things our kids do >that bring smiles to our faces. Whatever it is I would like to hear >about it. > >I used to take the little things for granted, my older daughter is >NT and a social butterfly (very unlike me or my husband, we're not >sure where those traits came from!), she has never had any problems >and developed like every average kid. > >Every time achieves something that he struggled with I can't >help but have mixed feelings, joy and sadness. Anyway here is my >smile for the day….. > > never had a sense of humor. This is a big part of our house and >one way we cope, whether it's silly, dry or even gallows humor we >try to find the funny in everything. > >We tease each other but were never able to do that with and >anytime we tried it was a cause of anger and frustration. Finally, > discovered humor. I am not sure what happened but something >clicked and he saw the light. > >This happened a couple of years ago, not too long after 9/11. There >was a joke going around school that he told me. He laughed like >crazy when he told me and I laughed too but then he looked at me and >said he did not understand why it was funny. I explained it to him >and at that moment he started to " get it " . > >Here is the joke: Do you know why the little old lady with knitting >needles was kicked off the airplane? Because she was knitting an >afghan. > > knew that an Afghan was a person from Afghanistan but did not >know that an afghan was also a knitted blanket. Once he finally >realized that things can have more than one meaning and that these >meanings can be related but not necessarily the same he was >delighted. I think that he just finally got old enough to put the >ideas together. What a wonderful day. I spent a long time that day >dredging up old jokes for him; it was great to see those wheels >turning. > > > _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm & pgmarket=en-ca & RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com\ %2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Thank you Leah, I appreciate the compliment. My husband keeps urging me to write a book about our son but I never really took the notion seriously. Besides family I also have a full time job. I am home today, we had a bad med day yesterday and no one got any sleep last night. Thankfully I have a wonderful, understanding boss. never said anything except baa baa before he turned two. (That was his name for his bottle). I knew that he had some kind of problem but even without language I knew he was smart. Shortly after his second birthday he started speaking in complete sentences. It was kinda surreal, first nothing and then everything. My mom used to say that he was just getting it all straight in his head before trying it. I used to read to him and point out the pictures but he had NO interest in the stories, the only thing he cared about was the number on the bottom of the page. He would get mad and slap my hands if I pointed at pictures and did not point to the numbers. Eventually I gave up on the picture books and started " reading " to him from my dictionary; it was the only book I had on hand that contained enough new numbers. His first obsession. When he was 2 ½ he could count to 200 with no problem. This was a game we used if we had to travel more than 15 minutes. Sometime later, when he was closer to three he asked what the " last " number was. I was surprised that he asked that question, it seemed way beyond his comprehension. I told him that numbers never end, that there is always one more and that this was called infinity. The look on his face was priceless; he had such an obsession for numbers that for him the thought of numbers never ending was better than Santa Claus! > > , > What a great story! My son has come up with some of the most humorous and > sometimes touching quips, quotes and stories, too. You know, you are such a > charismatic writer, that if you could ever find the time, writing a book > about things just like these, would offer us a little light and laughter, > not to mention insight, into what truely remarkable children we have. > I really appreciate your postings!! > Leah > > > Happy days > > > I just wanted to start a thread about the little things our kids do > that bring smiles to our faces. Whatever it is I would like to hear > about it. > > I used to take the little things for granted, my older daughter is > NT and a social butterfly (very unlike me or my husband, we're not > sure where those traits came from!), she has never had any problems > and developed like every average kid. > > Every time achieves something that he struggled with I can't > help but have mixed feelings, joy and sadness. Anyway here is my > smile for the day….. > > never had a sense of humor. This is a big part of our house and > one way we cope, whether it's silly, dry or even gallows humor we > try to find the funny in everything. > > We tease each other but were never able to do that with and > anytime we tried it was a cause of anger and frustration. Finally, > discovered humor. I am not sure what happened but something > clicked and he saw the light. > > This happened a couple of years ago, not too long after 9/11. There > was a joke going around school that he told me. He laughed like > crazy when he told me and I laughed too but then he looked at me and > said he did not understand why it was funny. I explained it to him > and at that moment he started to " get it " . > > Here is the joke: Do you know why the little old lady with knitting > needles was kicked off the airplane? Because she was knitting an > afghan. > > knew that an Afghan was a person from Afghanistan but did not > know that an afghan was also a knitted blanket. Once he finally > realized that things can have more than one meaning and that these > meanings can be related but not necessarily the same he was > delighted. I think that he just finally got old enough to put the > ideas together. What a wonderful day. I spent a long time that day > dredging up old jokes for him; it was great to see those wheels > turning. > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 > >I just wanted to start a thread about the little things our kids do >that bring smiles to our faces. Whatever it is I would like to hear >about it. > My funny about my 5 y/o AS son goes like this. 's " favorite topic " is monsters. He loves the old black and white Universal Studios monster movies...enstein, Dracula, Wolfman, etc. Before Christmas last year he was getting his hair cut. The hairdresser asked him " , what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas? " I knew what his answer would be and had to stifle a laugh when he replied " I want a coffin for Christmas " . You see, pretending to be Dracula in his coffin by lying under the dining room table just wasn't cutting it anymore, so he wanted the real thing to recreate his favorite scene in Abbott and Costello Meet enstein. I love those moments. _________________________________________________________________ Click, drag and drop. My MSN is the simple way to design your homepage. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200364ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 > >I just wanted to start a thread about the little things our kids do >that bring smiles to our faces. Whatever it is I would like to hear >about it. > My funny about my 5 y/o AS son goes like this. 's " favorite topic " is monsters. He loves the old black and white Universal Studios monster movies...enstein, Dracula, Wolfman, etc. Before Christmas last year he was getting his hair cut. The hairdresser asked him " , what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas? " I knew what his answer would be and had to stifle a laugh when he replied " I want a coffin for Christmas " . You see, pretending to be Dracula in his coffin by lying under the dining room table just wasn't cutting it anymore, so he wanted the real thing to recreate his favorite scene in Abbott and Costello Meet enstein. I love those moments. _________________________________________________________________ Click, drag and drop. My MSN is the simple way to design your homepage. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200364ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Sherry, That's hilarious. I am sure that would have thought the same way and cried too! He also hates the toilet and still doesn't like to touch it or flush it and he is now 14!. We had a battle royal to get him to pick up the toilet seat to pee and put it back down when done. He uses his foot most of the time. I can always tell when he is done peeing cause the seat CRASHES down! LOL s Mom > > > > > Good one Rabecca, > > > > > > > > > > I bet that teacher felt real stupid. > > > > > > > > > > Before we knew about my son's dx he went to the YMCA > daycare. > > At > > > > the time > > > > > he was obsessed with Bear in the Big Blue House and loved the > > > bear > > > > cha cha > > > > > cha. > > > > > > > > > > Well I bought him the soundtrack and he wanted it played in > > the > > > > car house > > > > > etc., guess you could say this was the start of obsessions. > > Well > > > > he wanted > > > > > to take to daycare and I knew that they played music for them > > > > throughout the > > > > > day so I let him. > > > > > > > > > > Well when I went to pick him up after work the staff was just > > in > > > > stiches as > > > > > they had some students come in for a tour and to work for > part > > of > > > > the > > > > > morning from the local high school. Well my little guy > > > apparently > > > > gave them > > > > > a show. He danced his little heart out as long as the Cha > Cha > > > Cha > > > > was on. > > > > > Just telling me they were in tears. It made my heart swell > > even > > > > more so to > > > > > this day as it has become a memory that is near and dear to > my > > > > heart. > > > > > > > > > > My son is still a little dancer but nothing like when he did > > the > > > > Bear Cha > > > > > Cha Cha. > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure who it was that started this thread but thank > > you. > > > > It makes me > > > > > appreciate my little guy all the more for the special little > > > > things that he > > > > > does. > > > > > > > > > > in Ajax > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: " rabecca_whalen " <rabeccawhalen@v...> > > > > > >Reply-To: autism-aspergers > > > > > >To: autism-aspergers > > > > > >Subject: Re: Happy days > > > > > >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:53:55 -0000 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I LOVE this thread!!! I got one for you... > > > > > > > > > > > >When Tyler was in kindergarten, we got a serious sounding > > message > > > > > >from his teacher asking for a parent/teacher conference. We > > set > > > it > > > > > >up, not knowing what it was about... When we got to the > > school > > > > (with > > > > > >our son)she pulled out one of his papers. She told us that > > she > > > had > > > > > >asked the class to each draw something that grows. She then > > > > showed us > > > > > >his paper, which contained a circle that had continuous > lines > > as > > > > if > > > > > >he went around and around with his pencil. She then, > sounding > > > very > > > > > >frustrated, told us that this is the quality of work Tyler > was > > > > > >turning in. I turned to Tyler with the paper in my hand and > > > asked > > > > him > > > > > >what he drew. With a very confused but serious look on his > > face, > > > > he > > > > > >said, " Mom, its a vortex. Anyone should be able to see > > that... " > > > > > >Pointing at his picture some more, he said, " It's something > > that > > > > > >grows, just like Mrs. Cook wanted. Did I do something > wrong? " > > At > > > > > >that, I turned back to the teacher while still talking to > > Tyler > > > > and > > > > > >said, " no Ty, you didn't do anything wrong. I just don't > > think > > > > that > > > > > >Mrs. Cook has ever seen a vortex before... " The expression > on > > her > > > > > >face was priceless... and it was the last time she ever > > called > > > us > > > > in > > > > > >for a conference!!! > > > > > > > > > > > >~hugs~ > > > > > >Rabecca > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > > > > > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features & pgmarket=en- > ca & RU=http% > > 3a% > > > > 2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers% 26pgmarket% > > 3den- > > > ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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