Dangerous behavior

Hi, I have briefly mentioned this previously but my 15 y.o daughter will leave the place we are and go for a wander and explore, or just because she's bored or had enough. Some times it's predictable and others are just 'out of the blue'. My main issue is that, when she leaves home, we don't know where she will go, but we have her location to keep an eye on her. We live down the road from the forest and where there is a stream near the road, where she has gone to before and she has an obsession with water but has sensory issues with it so she will only get her hands and feet wet at times. She won't go swimming at all but she is a great swimmer. It's worrying. 

Also because we live on a main road and she loves cars and will walk in the traffic and on the curb, next to it all. She had a close call with a car before and it's worrying. But the thing that confuses me is that she understands safety and knows how to be sensible but then at the same time she will dangle over a bridge on a motorway and cross a motorway in the need to get away. How do I prevent this. We keep the front door locked , Windows locked, the back gate is always in our view and she won't go in the garden away. We have a driveway which is now covered in stones which can give us a few extra seconds. Then we have a gate which can help us. We can also watch her because it takes her a while to put her shoes on so that can help with us. And if she does mange to open the front door, all the other doors will bang because of the wind so that's a big sign as well. She does worry me at times and her rational thinking goes when she's in a negative mood which can lead to her forgetting the basic safety rules, I guess. 

Any ideas on how to keep her safe when she's out. I've asked people but they don't understand. I've looked on Google but it just repeats itself. I'm doing everything I can but I don't want her to feel like it's a prison and that she can't go out because then she will want to escape and won't want to come back. It's very complicated. Thanks and sorry again for bothering you all

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  • when i was a kid i was never allowed outside the house unless i first asked my parents. and the doors where always locked. they was classical old fashioned parents, bit controlling and smothering to the point it probably hindered my ability to get friends as i was never allowed out, but hey ho i didnt get abducted by child grooming gangs which are all too common now.

  • i didnt get abducted by child grooming gangs which are all too common now.

    Seriously NOT helpful. Here's what CAN happen when you're not considering the impact your words will have: 

    A NT mother like this will feel 100% justified in suffocating and inprisioning her ND daughter. As a result, the relationship will b worse as force strained further as caging someone agaisnt their will only creates resentment EVEN if the person doing it thinks they are doing it for the others "own good". 

    NeuroTypicals BY DEFINITION use a form of Reasoning which invovles ASSOCIATION. It is Incredibly Faulty and only feeds their out-of-control "control and domination Issues", it is an undiciplined De-Fault, and irrational which Autistics have to fight and fight and fight against.  

    That De-Fault, death by association looks like this: if you're friends with someone unfit, YOU are also assumed unfit. Or if there is a random stabbing at a local shop, they associate that shop with stabbings until the owner is forced to close it and go broke. 

    Think smarter, mate. Don't just insert your opinion when it can be detrimetnal to others. 

  • I agree with you here. They need to watch there mouth. My children witnessed the friend's attempted kidnap a few years ago and they will never forget about it. They have nightmares because it could've been them. And there were kids out playing in a close and it was outside everyone's house. I fear this will happen to my kids, it can happen to anyone even with parents next to them. It all happens very quickly. I know someone who was raped, in the town where my daughter goes to school, so when she's out wandering, that's why I get worried. 

  • i lowered the age on purpose to drill he point home as a example.... tbh i was thinking of using 5 years old as a example instead but i think 5 years old is probably too young for any sane person to let out... i could be wrong though. but yeah i generally use example based wording.... hell when i wanna say a high number, i dont say the precise number, like 675 i instead say 10000000000000000000000000 and over-exagurate. people never get these things which is weird as to me they are a basic level of communication and comprehension and yet neither NTs or ASDs understand it or even understand examples lol

    anyways i consider my sister daft too for letting her son out to the local park unattended, he sometimes goes with this younger daughter of my sisters boyfreinds sister who im not sure what her age is but im pretty sure its gotta be around the 10 age unless im just bad at guessing ages, but defo too young to be allowed to go out alone with her kid to the park, especially as other kids are dicks and my sisters kid is the type to be a target for older bully kids and isnt exactly good enough to defend himself. plus there have been asians in vans snatching kids from round where she lives too and yet she still lets him out unattended.

  • To start off with, what you were commenting was not helpful. How many of my posts have you read because the more you read them, the better understanding you would have. 

    but hey ho i didnt get abducted by child grooming gangs which are all too common now.

    That's great news Caelus, I'm so proud! Yes, it's all very common now, to the point where an attempted kidnap happened in our close, where we lived, full of children, happened, right in front of both my daughter's, and many other's eyes. It was scary because that could've been my daughter but now she is scarred for life and I've explained earlier, that she has nightmares about it, she remembers the exact date and now has a complete fear of men and it effected her a lot. Home was meant to be her safe place but ever since that day, one sudden noise spooks her, especially when she is home alone, which she hated anyway but now refuses completely. 

    if that kid goes out and gets hurt, thats not the kids fault, thats the parents fault due to being the parents charge. legally speaking... i think this is why alot of parents get done for neglect or get social services knocking at their door for how they are not ensuring their charge is safe.

    Yes that's true and if I nearly got her taken away and put into care because she was struggling mentally and she had no coping methods because she didn't understand anything and why she was acting the way she was. 1 thing would mess her day up, like not having the right spoon, bowl, or cereal in the morning and that was it, she would explode and leave the house and they said I was neglecting her because I couldn't keep her safe because she would leave the house and hurt herself because she was in a very tricky dark place. It was horrible for everyone. That's why I try to keep the doors locked but then it's a prison and now she will jump the fence so I now keep the doors unlocked. I've explained this so many times in my posts but because I guess you haven't read any because you can't get her age right, I thought I'd keep you up to date with what I have to deal with. 

    In shorter words, if I lock her in, it's a prison and she will want to escape and will jump our fence, gate, whatever. And although I'm trying to keep her safe, she can't have a social life because she's locked in, which she does have btw,  That's why I now keep the front door unlocked. It's all very confusing so read my other threads before you comment something like you did. Thanks 

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  • To start off with, what you were commenting was not helpful. How many of my posts have you read because the more you read them, the better understanding you would have. 

    but hey ho i didnt get abducted by child grooming gangs which are all too common now.

    That's great news Caelus, I'm so proud! Yes, it's all very common now, to the point where an attempted kidnap happened in our close, where we lived, full of children, happened, right in front of both my daughter's, and many other's eyes. It was scary because that could've been my daughter but now she is scarred for life and I've explained earlier, that she has nightmares about it, she remembers the exact date and now has a complete fear of men and it effected her a lot. Home was meant to be her safe place but ever since that day, one sudden noise spooks her, especially when she is home alone, which she hated anyway but now refuses completely. 

    if that kid goes out and gets hurt, thats not the kids fault, thats the parents fault due to being the parents charge. legally speaking... i think this is why alot of parents get done for neglect or get social services knocking at their door for how they are not ensuring their charge is safe.

    Yes that's true and if I nearly got her taken away and put into care because she was struggling mentally and she had no coping methods because she didn't understand anything and why she was acting the way she was. 1 thing would mess her day up, like not having the right spoon, bowl, or cereal in the morning and that was it, she would explode and leave the house and they said I was neglecting her because I couldn't keep her safe because she would leave the house and hurt herself because she was in a very tricky dark place. It was horrible for everyone. That's why I try to keep the doors locked but then it's a prison and now she will jump the fence so I now keep the doors unlocked. I've explained this so many times in my posts but because I guess you haven't read any because you can't get her age right, I thought I'd keep you up to date with what I have to deal with. 

    In shorter words, if I lock her in, it's a prison and she will want to escape and will jump our fence, gate, whatever. And although I'm trying to keep her safe, she can't have a social life because she's locked in, which she does have btw,  That's why I now keep the front door unlocked. It's all very confusing so read my other threads before you comment something like you did. Thanks 

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  • i lowered the age on purpose to drill he point home as a example.... tbh i was thinking of using 5 years old as a example instead but i think 5 years old is probably too young for any sane person to let out... i could be wrong though. but yeah i generally use example based wording.... hell when i wanna say a high number, i dont say the precise number, like 675 i instead say 10000000000000000000000000 and over-exagurate. people never get these things which is weird as to me they are a basic level of communication and comprehension and yet neither NTs or ASDs understand it or even understand examples lol

    anyways i consider my sister daft too for letting her son out to the local park unattended, he sometimes goes with this younger daughter of my sisters boyfreinds sister who im not sure what her age is but im pretty sure its gotta be around the 10 age unless im just bad at guessing ages, but defo too young to be allowed to go out alone with her kid to the park, especially as other kids are dicks and my sisters kid is the type to be a target for older bully kids and isnt exactly good enough to defend himself. plus there have been asians in vans snatching kids from round where she lives too and yet she still lets him out unattended.