Shopping and Toddlers
Shopping with toddlers is a combination that can strike fear in any mother but combine that with autism and you've got the makings for a possible county-wide crisis.
One wants to go one way and the other wants to go another way. And running and hiding from Mommy is funny (Who knew? I certainly didn't know that this was supposed to be funny.) The one thing I went in for turned into five as we picked out a toy for each and a pack of bandages to feed the latest obsession that one of them has for Band-Aids.
I try not to take both boys by myself if I can help it. It's just way too stressful. One of them is okay but both is a fearful force. Take the normal toddler behavioral issues, cube them and this is what it is like to deal with autistic toddlers.
We did manage to leave the store with a toy motorcycle (Nathan), a small electronic abc/shapes toy (Peter), bandages (Peter), diapers (both) and a box of tissue (the car). But Nathan had to be put in the cart to keep from running off (about which he wailed) and, at the end, Peter had to be hoisted over my shoulder in order for us to leave.
C'est la vie.
One wants to go one way and the other wants to go another way. And running and hiding from Mommy is funny (Who knew? I certainly didn't know that this was supposed to be funny.) The one thing I went in for turned into five as we picked out a toy for each and a pack of bandages to feed the latest obsession that one of them has for Band-Aids.
I try not to take both boys by myself if I can help it. It's just way too stressful. One of them is okay but both is a fearful force. Take the normal toddler behavioral issues, cube them and this is what it is like to deal with autistic toddlers.
We did manage to leave the store with a toy motorcycle (Nathan), a small electronic abc/shapes toy (Peter), bandages (Peter), diapers (both) and a box of tissue (the car). But Nathan had to be put in the cart to keep from running off (about which he wailed) and, at the end, Peter had to be hoisted over my shoulder in order for us to leave.
C'est la vie.
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