Funny stuff my autistic child has said

My youngest son Matthew has just turned eight and he is autistic. He didn't speak for the first five years but is starting to more than make up for lost time. He is classified as high functioning autistic, goes to special needs class and is a few years developmentally behind main stream schooling.

Parenting has been a huge challenge for my missus and myself but it is also very rewarding.

Here are a few things that have made me smile, I'm sure there have been many others that I can't recall right now.

Matthew: Mum, can you get my DS game from the lounge room.
Mum: Get it yourself, I'm not your slave.
Matthew: I can't get it, I'm not my own slave.


Dad(me): Matthew, can I have a hug mate?
Matthew: I don't get paid enough to give you hugs all the time.


Mum was having an afternoon snooze as she is rather pregnant at the moment. When he came into our room I put my finger to my lips and made the shush gesture to which he replied in a loud voice.
Matthew: I CAN'T BE QUIET BECAUSE I'M TOO BUSY BEING NOT QUIET!

He can be such an angel sometimes and on the other foot he can have meltdowns that the entire neighborhood can hear.

Haha, Sounds lovely actually! :)

I bet It's bad days and good days as always with kids. But still, a more rewarding feeling of some kind when they have something out of the ordinary.

My cousin has a kid with down syndrome. And i can tell you, I've never met such a (sorry, don't really know the term in English.) Lil old as we say in Sweden. She got her very bad days though and can get quite aggressive. But other then that shes such a little cutie. :)

She says what she thinks all the time and makes every one around her happy.

Her favorite thing to say is "Go Sverige" (Go Sweden if that isn't obvious enought.:P) or "Så där säger alla." (That's what everybody says.)

He won´t say much but what he says has weight.
I like him.

dude maybe hes a savant

1.help him learn how to count cards
2.play poker with kid in casino(put some fake facial hair on him to se he can get in or something)
3.win
4.profit

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VictorDoom wrote:

dude maybe hes a savant

1.help him learn how to count cards
2.play poker with kid in casino(put some fake facial hair on him to se he can get in or something)
3.win
4.profit

what could possibly go wrong?

My partners best friend has an Autistic child. She invited us to a Marathon dedicated to Autistic children. Her daughter Autistic asked me...

"Why is everyone running?"

I replied, "because its for a good cause."

She goes and I just died laughing, "I rather walk."


Holding my laughter back, "why?"

She sighs, "it's 80 degrees..."

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VictorDoom wrote:

dude maybe hes a savant

I know you're making a joke (I can tell! Where is my prize?!), but just as an aside, you know, spread the knowledge:

Being a savant and being autistic has nothing to do with each other. The overwhelming majority of autistic persons are not savants.
They may exhibit savant-like characteristics, but they're mainly due to their abnormal interest in subjects they find fascinating.


@Hardlicker: Have you tried giving Matthew his space during meltdowns? As an adult, I can tell you that at least for me, adults trying to console me while I had one of those made them rather worse because I felt suffocated and tried to break free.

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Xpire wrote:

Haha, Sounds lovely actually! :)

I bet It's bad days and good days as always with kids. But still, a more rewarding feeling of some kind when they have something out of the ordinary.

My cousin has a kid with down syndrome. And i can tell you, I've never met such a (sorry, don't really know the term in English.) Lil old as we say in Sweden. She got her very bad days though and can get quite aggressive. But other then that shes such a little cutie. :)

She says what she thinks all the time and makes every one around her happy.

Her favorite thing to say is "Go Sverige" (Go Sweden if that isn't obvious enought.:P) or "Så där säger alla." (That's what everybody says.)

That's because people with down's syndrome are very much alike young children. They don't have the boundaries that other children learn to have.

All children (both normal and abnormal ones) imitate their surroundings, which can lead to them saying some very funny things.