Hey, I helped out a stranger with an autistic child in the

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Hey, I helped out a stranger with a possible autistic child in the store couple days ago. The child was screaming in the store and the mother could not get the kid to stop it. So I walked up to her and told her that the kid is most likely in sensory overload. She told me the kid does it in every store they go to. So I told her I saw Temple Grandin on youtube saying that children having melt downs in stores could be because of flourescent lighting so try putting sun glasses on the child it might calm her down. I also told her if that does not work try putting on hearing protection on her it might be the sound of the supermarket setting her off. I saw her in the store today and her little girl was being well behaved and wearing sunglasse. She thanked me and she is looking foward to being able to get her daughter to behave a little better while shopping. I did not ask if her daughter is autistic or not I do not like to ask strangers medical questions.

thats great. this would really help the child

Well done. If it was me i doubt it wouldn't have even entered my mind that she was having a meltdown, and would have thought she was just having a normal tantrum, even after she said it happened in every store (i probably would have thought she was exaggerating a little).

Actually i doubt i even would have walked up to the woman to ask what was wrong in the first place!

Wow, great job! It's amazing how some parents can be so blind to their own child's needs when there is a big difference in neurological type. You did that kid and his family a service.

Bless you. That was a wonderful thing to do.

That's wonderful! You have my full respect for helping someone like that. Alot of people especially big, tall guys like you would completely ignore it or scowl. You'd make your mama proud LOL

You rock! I wish there were more people in the world willing to help out strangers. Thank you

Yay, well done! Respect

/salute

Nice.

I enjoyed reading this!! Good deal, buddy.

You deserve gratitude & respect for being able to approach a stranger & try to help them out ... on top of managing not to accidently offend the parent (which is easy to do)

I normally do not approach people I do not know but this child was screaming so loud and for so long she was gagging. I felt if I had a possible solution to the babies crying and did not come foward with it, it would be the same as child abuse. That and the mother looked run down because of it.

Congratulations, and I am impressed, it was a very good deed you did there.

Like I said I wouldn't have even considered/noticed it and i'd consider myself as having mild autism (take out the speech impairment when i was younger, if i had a test today i probably wouldn't even be diagnosed!! - though i haven't seen the diagnosis criteria for a little while so it might be a bit more borderline)

However, Im not sure why but it feels like reading your post has entered my subconscious/long term memory bank. I know that might sound ridiculous (how can you know whats going on in your subconscious - unless ive misintepreted the definition of subconscious) but sometimes i get this "feeling" (cant really explain it) where when i read a specific post, listen to someone, experience an event etc i end up remembering something for a very long time, and this feels like one of those times.

So I thankyou, Im sure Im going to be listening (if only subsconsciously) and looking out for a similar situation to occur and know exactly what to do lol

Same thing here. This post made me feel very nice and warm inside

That's awesome! You have done that child and her family a great service. Congratulations!