This is freya at our favourite garden centre sploshing in the puddles in between the plants with her canvas shoes on!!! Needless to say she wasn't allowed back in the car like this!
Everywhere we go people watch her and look at us like why are you allowing your child to do that, the answer is simple, she's autistic, she's not being naughty she's having fun, she doesn't want to look at plants so in order to be able to look at them in peace we let her jump in the puddles. Normally we remember to insist on her wearing her wellies and normally she lives in the wellies but this day we forgot and lets be honest she doesn't see the problem, that smiley face says it all!
This is freya in her hat and wellies! Like I say the wellies are on most of the day and the hat is a new addition in an attempt to bribe her out of the winter hat she's been wearing for the last few months. She often wears the hat out with her rain coat and wellies and there is no point explaining it's not needed when it isn't sunny as she really doesn't care or understand! She loves water and I try to encourage her to play with it in the garden but if not she is just as happy to empty water all over the floor, on the furniture or all over herself :0/
This is freya in primark, you can read about this shopping trip in my other blog teenagers v toddlers, she is having a fab time trying on the hats and running off around the store with the bags. She is happy so you may wonder what's the problem? The problem is it's impossible to keep an eye on her as she's dashing between the isles grabbing handfulls of clothes and flinging them on the floor. It's twice as hard to try to at the same time return the clothes to the rails! When she was younger I tried putting her on reins but this was about as popular as the buggy. She has always hated being restrained, she is much better behaved at bedtime now she has a bed than she was when she was in her cot?? I suppose in her mind in the cot her mind was occupied in trying to get out where as now she just lies there with all the toys neatly organised around her.
I find it confusing that she does some things so well and is incapable of doing other things which would be quite simple for someone else her age.
This organising and repetitive behaviour is both highly amusing and incredibly frustrating. She makes the oddest connections in her head and yet maybe they are actually perfectly logical. I tell her daily to sit to eat and use a fork/spoon and she never does it yet she can remember that a squiggle she drew on my bedroom wall is a carrot??!! The latest thing is whales, she draws whales all round the house and will show you them and where the tail is, she knows where they all are and as much as I would like to paint over them I don't know if this would really distress her, I imagine it would so I leave them there.
I will keep adding photos as I find them......
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