Kids say the darndest things

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"It's ... cry", adorable!

Does something an NT child said to his autistic mother count?

Yesterday, my son asked me what I did when I was a little boy.

Yesterday my son, who'd been playing in the back yard, suddenly burst through the front door, saying, "Don't ask."

We didn't.

I was also beyond thrilled when my son spontaneously shared some of his candy eggs with a little boy who didn't find many. He tends to be incredibly jealous of other kids AND is massively fixated on sweets, so this was huge. I think some protective feeling towards the little kids he plays with has awakened in him (maybe especially since these are the little kids who lost their dad recently.)

That's funny. My son is now saying, "Do you have a wah?" when the baby starts crying.

I am a preschool teacher with several children with ASD. I am a new teacher so I am wondering when you hear your children saying these funny things, how do you respond? Most of the things I hear are cute and innocent. Sometimes they are disruptive or rude and a response should be something besides a giggle. I cannot help my self though. They are often so quiet and when these students are heard saying something I am always surprised and I often giggle. So if you are in public and hear your child saying something funny, but inappropriate, what do you do?

It is important to give them a clear message when they have said something inappropriate especially if it is something that would hurt someone's feelings. Just like with a 2 year old, you don't want to reward inappropriate behavior by laughing, as difficult as that may be at times. You can be gentle though and be encouraging of them for saying something and offer an idea of a better way to express themselves. Also, try if you can to help them make the connection of the effect their words can have on others.

Well much of what my 4-year-old says is echolalia, so he does sometimes say rude things that I don't think he knows the meaning of. I just ignore it because if I try to get him to stop, he just keeps saying it, sometimes more loudly.

I had the radio on and my daughter told me "Turn it off! It's ruining my inspiration!"

As I noted in my post above, always, when dd is rude the first thing we do is talk about why what she said was rude/inappropriate. Now directly after that I may be locking myself in the bathroom to laugh, but I do not let her see that reaction. We've also talked about the difference between thinking something- ie- gram looks horrible in that dress and expressing that thought out loud. We talk a lot about thinking about how she would feel about it if someone said that to her, before she says it to someone else, and that's seemed to help a lot.

Both my kids watch a lot of sci fi. My son turns 5 in a few weeks.

My Autistic son: Mummy, is C3PO a roboman?
Me: I think he is just a normal robot?
My son: It makes sense with Darth vader and the storm troopers though.

He is right, it does make sense. Now whenever I think of young anakin, I will picture him going around tattooeen harvasting brains.

Driving in the car the other day, my 7 year-old with PDD-NOS wanted to know about why people looked like their parents. I try to explain that genetics make up who we are and we inherit those from our parents when we are being made as babies. Basically it is in our genes that we look a certain way.

He very seriously asks me, "Mama, what color jeans were you wearing at the hospital the day you had me to give me brown hair?"

I told him (while trying not to crack up!) that these genes were not like pants but little parts of our bodies on the inside... i could see the wheels turning trying to figure out how many little pairs of 'jeans' were floating around inside our bodies.

I mentioned that I was exercising one day and my daughter said, "Those poor ghosts." LOL.

My son Cameron and I are big Fleet Foxes fans. His first word was "Focket". I thought, "Who let that one slip?" Then one day he said, "Feet Focket," and I realized he was saying "Fleet Foxes."

Cameron, who is 3, has serious echolalia coupled with a good bit of musical ability. When he was less than 1 year old, he sang the entire chorus and coda of a really gloomy Fleet Foxes song while I was changing his diaper: "Dear shadow alive and well / how does the body die? You tell / me everything, anything true. / I don't know what I have done. / I'm turning myself into a demon. / Ladada..."

Eeeek.

I really, really wish we had a "like" button! Every time this thread pops up it makes my day!

Well, here ya go, then.

When I was around 8 years old in the car with my mom, I saw a bumper sticker that said, "honk if you're horny". So even though I didn't know what "horny" meant, I reached over and honked the horn.

My little brother has his moments too.

One day, I took him to the park and a jogger flashed a very yellow smile at us as he went by. My brother's eyes widened and he said,"You need to brush your teeth!