Can you please point me in the right direction

I know I'll get slapped down for this, but to be accurate, most people experience meltdowns (have you ever had one of those bad days when everything goes wrong and eventually you 'lose your rag' over something trivial that's the last straw?).

It is just the magnitude and frequency that differs with autistic spectrum.

It isn't really the meltdown that's the issue here, it's the lifestyle circumstances of someone with autism that's important. If it was feasible, if you want something to video, video eight hours of life with autism. Then perhaps you would understand the meltdown.

Perhaps he wouldn't notice being videod during a meltdown. But a video of a meltdown is not going to help the school understand what is happening.

The difficulty with videoing his life in school however is that parental permission of everyone likely to be involved is mandatory, and how do you film the things that only happen because they are 'unseen'.

However NAS could help many parents by producing a video using actors, based on collective knowledge of the kinds of things that go on in schools (they've done this on a small scale as video clips of social exclusion).

If school teachers could watch a video of all the subtle hurts, snide comments, pushing and shoving, dirty tricks, name calling etc that many children on the spectrum suffer in school, out of sight of the teachers, they might understand. So even if they manage to bottle it up through school, it is inevitable they explode at home.

Indeed there will never be sufficient understanding of the hell children on the spectrum go through until something like this is done, and used as an educational tool.

I was ever told the old 'sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you' myth. If you've got autism or aspergers your reactions to words are entertaining for others around you. It becomes fun to exploit your social vulnerability, literal understanding, and reaction to excessive visual and aural stimuli. That way words do hurt.

I know I'll get slapped down for this, but to be accurate, most people experience meltdowns (have you ever had one of those bad days when everything goes wrong and eventually you 'lose your rag' over something trivial that's the last straw?).

It is just the magnitude and frequency that differs with autistic spectrum.

It isn't really the meltdown that's the issue here, it's the lifestyle circumstances of someone with autism that's important. If it was feasible, if you want something to video, video eight hours of life with autism. Then perhaps you would understand the meltdown.

Perhaps he wouldn't notice being videod during a meltdown. But a video of a meltdown is not going to help the school understand what is happening.

The difficulty with videoing his life in school however is that parental permission of everyone likely to be involved is mandatory, and how do you film the things that only happen because they are 'unseen'.

However NAS could help many parents by producing a video using actors, based on collective knowledge of the kinds of things that go on in schools (they've done this on a small scale as video clips of social exclusion).

If school teachers could watch a video of all the subtle hurts, snide comments, pushing and shoving, dirty tricks, name calling etc that many children on the spectrum suffer in school, out of sight of the teachers, they might understand. So even if they manage to bottle it up through school, it is inevitable they explode at home.

Indeed there will never be sufficient understanding of the hell children on the spectrum go through until something like this is done, and used as an educational tool.

I was ever told the old 'sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you' myth. If you've got autism or aspergers your reactions to words are entertaining for others around you. It becomes fun to exploit your social vulnerability, literal understanding, and reaction to excessive visual and aural stimuli. That way words do hurt.