As you all know, Autism is unpredictable. One day can be like walking with rainbows and unicorns - the next is like the earth is shifting under neath you and you are trying not to get caught in the cracks.
This is how the morning started yesterday. He got up, in preparation to go to school. I made him breakfast and we followed our normals routine of me constantly telling him to eat his breakfast and him pretending to ignore me. On my last prompt to get him to eat, he replied. I can't go. It's too cold, Ill get wet! There is too much snow.
It wasn't long ago it had dawned on me that when he complained about the wind blowing in his face, or the heat, or the cold that it wasn't him simply complaining for the sake of complaining, but that he is just that sensative. What we feel to be hot or cold, he feels just that much more. What seems like nothing to us, has his senses working on over drive. He feels everything just that much more. It's hard to understand, not ever having to cope the way he does. It's real, and can debilatating for him.
So anyway, I tried to change the subject to avoid the conversation totally going south. I then asked him to get dressed and that's when the end of the world came. He missed the TV show Beyblade. The stomping started, his voice got louder and his whole body tightened up. I knew we were done. I quickly tried to reassure him he could watch it tomorrow. Let his know it was an episode he had already seen, trying to get him to realize that it wasn't that bad. Didn't work. The yelling got louder, the frustration was building and the tears were just seconds away from flowing.
I called the school, and emailed his teacher. I knew today was going to be one of those days and couldn't justify sending him to school for his teachers and classmates to deal with.
After what seemed like an eternity, he finally started to come back. Was ready to hear reason and prepared to wait until tomorrow to catch the next episode.
Shovelling heavy, wet winter snow almost seemed like a walk in the park after coping with that first thing in the morning.
You just never know what one day to the next will bring.....
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