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A ravenous beat bursts into the room! How do you respond to this?
I snap out of it to run and live to meltdown another day. 37%  37%  [ 19 ]
I continue to have my meltdown... As I run out the door! 14%  14%  [ 7 ]
I'm having a meltdown and don't even notice the bear eating me. 14%  14%  [ 7 ]
I don't know what I would do, as this has never happened to me before. 35%  35%  [ 18 ]
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08 Dec 2012, 7:39 pm

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That last answer is just classic. An autistic person is quite likely to not know what they would do in such an unfamiliar situation. We are concrete thinkers, after all. "Well, I've never been attacked by a bear before..."


My favorite part of the last answer is the fact that its almost the most common answer response.

If I'm in as bad as overload as you are talking about in your bad meltdowns there I'd be in shutdown not meltdown.



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08 Dec 2012, 7:40 pm

The previous two posts are funny to me because I spent the past few days since this thread was posted trying to work out what my answer is.

I guess in that case it must be the last one.



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08 Dec 2012, 8:38 pm

When I have a meltdown, I tend to exit whatever room I'm in. Hopefully I will do this before the bear comes in.



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09 Dec 2012, 9:41 am

There are no real bears where I live.

A ravenous BEAT as the poll says is more likely though, as our teenage neighbour loves his music! :D
I think that would make my meltdown worse though.



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09 Dec 2012, 9:46 am

InKBlott wrote:
When I have a meltdown, I tend to exit whatever room I'm in. Hopefully I will do this before the bear comes in.


What if the bear isn't where you leave from, but where you go to?


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09 Dec 2012, 3:18 pm

Aharon wrote:
InKBlott wrote:
When I have a meltdown, I tend to exit whatever room I'm in. Hopefully I will do this before the bear comes in.


What if the bear isn't where you leave from, but where you go to?


Then I pity the bear. :wink: