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What a meltdown

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My child had sports day today. He was called to do the relay race. Turned out they had too many children called up, so my child was left running back and fore trying to find a space for himself. Of course he didn't find one, as there was no space for him. 

Pasrents called out and the teacher told him to go and sit back down. 

If you have an autistic child, you're going to know the results of this. He had a meltdown, burst into tears and this later for 20 minutes or so, in front of his peers and parents. I was not happy with the teachers response at all, when I eventually had a chance to speak to the teacher, he just laughed and brushed it off. 

For my child who has aspergers, it was a BIG deal. Because he's so high functioning, it appears as if he should just 'grow a pair' and get over himself, however that's never goi2to happen. This is who he is.

Anyone else have experience of child meltdowns in this way? Anyone have experience of school teachers just 'not getting it'??.

Thanks

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  • There was a child in a class I was teaching and they missed the fruit out at break time.

    When told after break that it was not fruit time, they had a meltdown saying 'I need my fruit, I need my fruit' and just refused to sit down and carry on the day. They were genuinely distressed - although I hadn't been told this child had ASD it was a meltdown I had seen in other children with ASD.

    Being ASD myself I sat them down and said 'what do you think is going to happen if you don't have your fruit today?'

    They said 'my dad told me I need fruit to grow and I didn't have fruit today so I'm not going to grow.' They were sobbing!

    We talked it out and I said 'you will still grow if you don't have your fruit today, you'll have your fruit tomorrow and dinner today and that will help you grow.'

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  • There was a child in a class I was teaching and they missed the fruit out at break time.

    When told after break that it was not fruit time, they had a meltdown saying 'I need my fruit, I need my fruit' and just refused to sit down and carry on the day. They were genuinely distressed - although I hadn't been told this child had ASD it was a meltdown I had seen in other children with ASD.

    Being ASD myself I sat them down and said 'what do you think is going to happen if you don't have your fruit today?'

    They said 'my dad told me I need fruit to grow and I didn't have fruit today so I'm not going to grow.' They were sobbing!

    We talked it out and I said 'you will still grow if you don't have your fruit today, you'll have your fruit tomorrow and dinner today and that will help you grow.'

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