Toffeewoffy
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- Mar 6, 2014
Just wanted to add that now DD is an adult she can find the words to express how she's feeling inside rather than just 'going off on one' for no apparent reason.
Her mood can turn 180 in seconds. One minute she'll be standing next to you talking rationally, the next second she'll get an itch or the sun hits her 'just so' and she'll just go loopy. It's all part of the over-stimulation that most Asbergic people suffer from at one stage or another. This year's holiday had high points, but she would also suddenly lose it and stomp off screaming and swearing. I'm in a scooter and can't follow her down steps, for example. In the same way, one second she'd be screaming at me acusing me of ruining her holiday and the next she'd be talking normally about something she's just seen in the theming of the ride, for example.
Thankfully she's never been a 'got to ride this again NOW' person, although we will often book a FP and, before going on and riding it, she'll get a return time on her DAS so that we can come off and often go almost straight back in again. Several times we've stayed on Buzz Lightyear because one of us has had a gun which didn't work and they've let us stay on and go round again - although we changed cars to avoid the broken gun. (Seriously, that ride needs major refurb work on it: I used to get 999,999 regularly. These days I'm lucky if I get to 100,000.)
Basically, I'm commenting to give my angle, and also to thank those of you who posted very kind replies. There's nothing worse than having a young adult kicking off because they can't help it and being stared at by everyone because you're a bad parent for a) bringing them up with so little discipline, and b) being unable to control your own child.
Her mood can turn 180 in seconds. One minute she'll be standing next to you talking rationally, the next second she'll get an itch or the sun hits her 'just so' and she'll just go loopy. It's all part of the over-stimulation that most Asbergic people suffer from at one stage or another. This year's holiday had high points, but she would also suddenly lose it and stomp off screaming and swearing. I'm in a scooter and can't follow her down steps, for example. In the same way, one second she'd be screaming at me acusing me of ruining her holiday and the next she'd be talking normally about something she's just seen in the theming of the ride, for example.
Thankfully she's never been a 'got to ride this again NOW' person, although we will often book a FP and, before going on and riding it, she'll get a return time on her DAS so that we can come off and often go almost straight back in again. Several times we've stayed on Buzz Lightyear because one of us has had a gun which didn't work and they've let us stay on and go round again - although we changed cars to avoid the broken gun. (Seriously, that ride needs major refurb work on it: I used to get 999,999 regularly. These days I'm lucky if I get to 100,000.)
Basically, I'm commenting to give my angle, and also to thank those of you who posted very kind replies. There's nothing worse than having a young adult kicking off because they can't help it and being stared at by everyone because you're a bad parent for a) bringing them up with so little discipline, and b) being unable to control your own child.