will your AS/HFA child go on escalators?

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I wouldn't...I still do anything to avoid having to use them as an adult.

I can never get rid of that moving sensation in my brain after riding them....although I've long conquered my fear that I'll get sucked into the floor at the end thankfully.

I'm afraid of escalators. I just hate going down to a subway station with a escalator in the length of four floors. My youngest also hates it. He always checks that the emergency switches is there so you can stop the escalator if you'd get stucked with your pants or something (very unlikely but you never know)

I've allways liked escaladors. I would happily ride up and down all day. Elevators on the other hand can get stuck and you'd be trapped until it broke free and fell to the basement.

Heck - *I* have trouble getting on and off the escalators at times.... LOL


Seriously though, my son doesn't seem to mind them. At least, I've never noticed! I know that perception can be a problem with some aspies though, so it does make sense that some have trouble with escalators.

I actually like going on escalators so I don't have a problem with them.

i liked them. i just didnt like how they ended so abruptly. someone always had to pick me up and take me off or id jump off haha

My son loves them. He thinks they are fun.

Escalators made me nervous when I was a kid, but I didn't refuse to use them. My parents' wrath was scarier than the escalator every time.

When I was little, there was one type of staircase that I absolutely hated. It was the kind where there were gaps between the steps, mainly found in old basements but not always. Anyway, I remember thinking when I was, like, four that I'd fall between the steps and really get hurt. I'm way past that now, but I can still see why I hated those steps, being so little and all. Did anybody else have that problem?

I didn't mind them, but I didn't like the thought of getting my shoe caught and falling on my face.

I was never afraid of them as a kid, but I've always had trouble physically getting on and off them.

In The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb, a humorous incident was related where Roger Bannister and his friend Norris McWhirter ran up the down escalator. Roger Bannister wanted to do something fun as a break from his training.

I can insert Roger Bannister into just about everything!

My son doesn't seem to mind escalators, and I don't either. Elevators make me nervous when they are at full capacity--I am claustrophobic and I panic when I am in a tight confined space with lots of people.

I go on escelators but reluctantly.

I am scared sh((((s of them tbph and they are so noisy. They move to fast and i struggle to get of them and fall over regularly when getting of them

Escalators are awful! Anyone who is with me when I get on one has to be prepared to wait a bit to get on, because I can't just step onto one. It takes me a while to figure out where one section ends and where the next begins, and I'm terrified of not stepping all the way on one step and falling. I have a tough time with stairs due to my lack of depth perception (can't tell where one stair ends and the next one begins, and how far down it is), so stairs that move are even worse.

There is also a long escalator at the Showboat/House of Blues in Atlantic City, and when I was going to a concert there and saw the escalator, I knew there would be trouble.

when I was little I loved them-they were the best part of the mall-I got mad if malls didn't have them