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21 Jul 2010, 6:14 pm

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http://health.discovery.com/videos/amazing-families-vod-autism-profile.html

sorry if i'm out of line i wouldn't ever use the strap on my child. and i wouldn't ever lay my 6 year old down as if she a 2 month old infant for changing. you can make them stand their legs are find.
and come on she 6 why and the hell are those infant/toddler toys are their. :roll:


When I watched the first video the first time (with the 3-yr-old boy), I was shocked to see the child strapped to the seat, but a minute later I understood why, but I wish that the father was prepared way ahead in advance with the trimmers before he placed the child in the seat. In and out quickly. Not leaving the child in the seat crying and screaming for minutes until he finally gets his hair cut. Nothing worse than seeing a child stressed out to the max like that.

Now, for the new video with the girl.. WTF?! Pants BELT?! CRUELTY!

As for the laying the 6 year-old for changing - it is the best way to change a diaper, really. Standing up and being still for a child like that is a bit difficult. There's nothing wrong with them playing with the infant toys, really. It's just toys.


infant toys okay i admit i played with kiddie toys to but my family mixed it up, what i should of said they should of had toys dedicated to 6 year old. as well. dolls ect


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21 Jul 2010, 6:15 pm

Janissy wrote:
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and come on she 6 why and the hell are those infant/toddler toys are their. :roll:


My daughter sometimes likes to play with infant and toddler toys and she's almost in middle school. I threw many of them away when she went into kindergarten because I thought she'd outgrown them. She was so heartbroken and wanted them back so much that I wound up re-buying new versions of many of them.

There are many, many threads about adults enjoying their Legos, children's cartoons, action figures and so on and wondering why the NT world thinks they should give these things up just because they've reached a certain age. I agree. I don't think toys need to be abandoned just because somebody reaches a certain age. If people on WP want to watch Spongebob, that's fine. If this girl and my daughter want to play with toddler toys, that's fine for excactly the same reason. There should be no pressure to only stick to age-appropriate toys. I'm glad her parents see that too.


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21 Jul 2010, 6:39 pm

Yep. "Age-appropriate toys" are not a requirement for a good childhood. I seem to recall being sixteen and playing with Legos while my books on black holes and fetal development waited for me to pick them up again. And... well, I can't really deny that I was more than a little amused by my kid sister's toddler toys. There was this teething ring that was lovely to squish between my fingers...

Now, if a kid's being given toddler toys to humiliate them, that's an entirely different story--emotional abuse, of course. But that's not what's going on here.

Also: I want either a transcript or captions. There's no way my auditory processing is up to speed for that video. Did they go out of their way to make it inaccessible to autistics or something?


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21 Jul 2010, 6:54 pm

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Yep. "Age-appropriate toys" are not a requirement for a good childhood. I seem to recall being sixteen and playing with Legos while my books on black holes and fetal development waited for me to pick them up again. And... well, I can't really deny that I was more than a little amused by my kid sister's toddler toys. There was this teething ring that was lovely to squish between my fingers...

Now, if a kid's being given toddler toys to humiliate them, that's an entirely different story--emotional abuse, of course. But that's not what's going on here.

Also: I want either a transcript or captions. There's no way my auditory processing is up to speed for that video. Did they go out of their way to make it inaccessible to autistics or something?


captions would of been a good idea


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21 Jul 2010, 6:54 pm

Callista wrote:
Yep. "Age-appropriate toys" are not a requirement for a good childhood. I seem to recall being sixteen and playing with Legos while my books on black holes and fetal development waited for me to pick them up again. And... well, I can't really deny that I was more than a little amused by my kid sister's toddler toys. There was this teething ring that was lovely to squish between my fingers...

Now, if a kid's being given toddler toys to humiliate them, that's an entirely different story--emotional abuse, of course. But that's not what's going on here.

Also: I want either a transcript or captions. There's no way my auditory processing is up to speed for that video. Did they go out of their way to make it inaccessible to autistics or something?


And deaf people, too. I mean, c'mon... what's wrong with YouTube and Transcribe Captioning? At least they do work... about half the time and it's infinitely better than nothing at all.



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24 Aug 2010, 4:34 pm

Is this from the Autism x6 show? I didn't see anything wrong with it, some of the kids just had a more severe case of autism than others.


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25 Aug 2010, 3:46 pm

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"Locked inside yourself and not wanting to come out." - Unlocking Autism

Hey, it's not that I don't WANT to come out of my shell, it's just very difficult. That statement above is highly inaccurate.


What? I want to come out of my shell, too, but I never get any substantial (notice substantial instead of real) opportunities. I had a couple, but it was mostly with a couple adults fresh out of college.



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25 Aug 2010, 3:53 pm

More snake oil.


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25 Aug 2010, 3:55 pm

I was not stricken with autism, I was born with it. People are born with autism, and people are stricken with cancer.


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