Re: British boy too scared to travel home from Australia

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" Hill's family moved to Sydney in January 2008 to start a new life but decided to return recently because they were homesick."

The family itself is a little bit odd.

First it's: "Let's move to Australia!"

Then it's: "Let's move home. We're homesick!"

Didn't they think they might be homesick before they left? Didn't they SERIOUSLY think about what making such a drastic move might entail?

" made the original trip to Australia after being given sedatives before boarding a flight."

In this case, they doped their kid because they deemed their foolish and ill-conceived whims outweighed 's fear of traveling.

"Mr Hill said the family had been advised to pay for a doctor to fly business class with and give him sedatives during the trip."

"The cost is enormous and we don't have the money," Mr Hill said.

And why don't they have the money? Could it be because they moved twice in such a short period of time and did not consider how expensive it might be?

Dolts.

"Our only glimmer of hope is that some airline will take pity on us and help."

If I owned an airline, I would tell these people to buzz off. Or else I would charge them ten times the normal rate to fly.

Anyone with any brains can see that flying or going back to England is actually a secondary fear for . The main one is that once he gets back there, settles in, gets used to his new environment, there is no guarantee that his whimsical and air-headed family will not decide to pull up stakes and ove to some other distant corner of the world.

Sounds to me like is the brainiest of the whole bunch. He was the ONLY one who overcame his fear of traveling to settle in a brand new country and NOT get homesick.

But of course he has AS and so is seen as a lesser opinion for his balking.

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> " Hill's family moved to Sydney in January 2008 to start a new

> life but decided to return recently because they were homesick. "

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> Didn't they think they might be homesick before they left? Didn't they

> SERIOUSLY think about what making such a drastic move might entail?

That's mean. These things happen, folks try out an option, find it doesn't work

for them. At least they had got a year of the experience they wanted, which has

added variety to their lives.

I have to defend them because my grandma did the same thing, before I was born,

in the aftermath of WW2 to be exact. She took advantage of a cheap travel

voucher scheme + she used what should have been my dad's voucher to travel from

Glasgow to Sydney - of course that was a fiddle really. It gave her a good long

visit to the relatives already in Australia beforehand, + she was able to decide

from experience whether she wanted to stay or not. After living there as long as

2 years, she decided not to stay, disliked the Australian creepy-crawlies, +

went home to Glasgow, where she moved back into the same council house as

before! She had continued to pay the rent on it as an empty house the whole time

she was in Australia! + nobody acted to prevent her. My dad (now suspected

aspie), who had joined her in Sydney, would have stayed but he was rather too

mother-dependent + he accompanied her back to Britain, though not to anywhere

near Glasgow. I dont' quite follow his logic!

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> " made the original trip to Australia after being given sedatives

> before boarding a flight. "

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> In this case, they doped their kid because they deemed their foolish and

> ill-conceived whims outweighed 's fear of traveling.

Their motive to try a new life-option + see if it worked out, outweighed

's fear of traveling. Could they expect their present problem if they had

never heard of any other cases of it?

> And why don't they have the money? Could it be because they moved twice

> in such a short period of time and did not consider how expensive it

> might be?

Yes there is that, they needed to save up some more before taking the plunge

they did, to cover the possiblities.

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> If I owned an airline, I would tell these people to buzz off.

Wouldn't it be enough to cover a few windows near his seat? and make them fly

either on a flight that is not full or where there are other passengers who have

expressed the goodwill to accept the covered-up windows.

> Anyone with any brains can see

Pleas instruct me, as an aspie, how to use my brains to see things from

non-verbalised hidden clues?

> Sounds to me like is the brainiest of the whole bunch. He was the

> ONLY one who overcame his fear of traveling to settle in a brand new

> country and NOT get homesick.

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> But of course he has AS and so is seen as a lesser opinion for his

> balking.

If he actually expresses a personal with to stay in Aus, that's different. the

story doesn't say he has.

[Guest guest]

" That's mean. These things happen, folks try out an option, find it doesn't work

for them. At least they had got a year of the experience they wanted, which has

added variety to their lives. "

Yep. We all do things like that. But in families, it is important for people to

consider the needs of other family members: In this case an autistic who seems

to have a fear either of travel or of being transplanted.

I think in their case, much more research was warranted before they elected to

make the initial move.

Administrator

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maurice wrote: " If he actually expresses a personal with to stay in Aus, that's

different. the story doesn't say he has. "

Children have very little say about what their parents are going to do that

impacts on their lives. That being said, it's clear that did not want to

leave his country of origin as evidenced by the fact that he had to be sedated

in order to make the trip to Australia in the first place.

Raven

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I've been thinking about this. My son is very keen to travel and go on a plane,

but part of me wonders what if he does not like such? What would happen if we

did take a trip somewhere and he disliked flying so much he didn't want to get

back on the plane to come home?

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> " That's mean. These things happen, folks try out an option, find it doesn't

work for them. At least they had got a year of the experience they wanted, which

has added variety to their lives. "

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> Yep. We all do things like that. But in families, it is important for people

to consider the needs of other family members: In this case an autistic who

seems to have a fear either of travel or of being transplanted.

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> I think in their case, much more research was warranted before they elected to

make the initial move.

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