Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello,
this isn’t really an issue more of a please help me make sense of this, Sometimes my brain works against me and thinks the worst or can’t think of any reason.
When my son is with me for example we are in the car or going anywhere like shops, a walk, swimming, or his club he wears ear defenders. If our neighbours are in the garden he asks for his ear defenders. At school as soon as he gets into class he takes them off and he doesn’t wear them.
At home we use visuals and a daily planner he will ask what’s next etc and we go through his planner but In school they say oh he doesn’t really bother with visuals.
If we go to the supermarket he is in his disability buggy but school have taken him to the shops and he’s walked around the store apparently with no issues.
Injusg don’t get it. I’ve said in the past can you please put his ear defenders on him and they say he doesn’t want them. Now I’m thinking do these people think I’m forcing him to use these things.
My instinct reaction is he feels safe around you. And he doesn't want to be any more different around peers than he already knows he is.
Many of us were like this. We all need some one we don't have to hide around. He may burn out at school eventually...