Faces

august 22 2007

Drama again.

Children with autism have their own way of perceiving reality and their own way of interpreting it.

My son gets afraid of people with certain faces.

I think it's not the face that is the problem, but the fact that the face doesn't always correspond with the feeling the person radiates.
How do you like this way of describing people who aren't honest to others?

One of the teachers at school is a guy we've had troubles with last year.
My father called people like him: "people who have fallen up the stairs.", meaning he's a problem for others because he misuses the power he experiences at a certain position in the hierachie.

My autistic son has that person as a teacher this year.... today.

Do we went through a whole lot of emotions this morning.

His bycicle wasn't OK.... went outside in the rain to check, this was not OK, that was not OK.

Ofcourse I was trying to get him to school. Not only because it's the law, but mainly because he has to learn to deal with people like that.

Well, he threw such a terrible fit, etc etc.

He's still at home....

These are situations people don't understand.
Other children are threatened with punishment and they go.

This child is so afraid of a teacher that he needs help.

So I'm going to inform his mentor about the problem...