Monday, 01 November 2010

• Autism and Halloween

  
  
  This year we did not even attempt either child to do the door-to-door thing. One, it's a mixed message: Don't take candy from strangers except for one night a year. Two, there's just not the same sense of safety as it was when I was a kid. Three, the kids REALLY don't get the whole point of it, other than the candy.
  
  So, this year, instead, we went to events.
  
  The first was at our local church, Journey Church, where they had games the kids could do to earn the candy. The second was all the businesses in town set up tables along one of the main streets, and the street was blocked off to traffic. It was fun. There was even a person giving out popcorn, chips, soda, hot dogs, etc. By time we got to the end, they were out of food tho. Even had live music! Great band. Hope they play again next year.
  
  I'm going to try and attach pictures of our "costumes." You'll notice we do make-up in lieu of masks and that's for our sensory issues. However, Thom didn't do well with the make-up this year. He kept wanting to rub it off cause it "itched."
  
  The purple in my hair *is* permanent.
  
  The lady next to me in the pic is the person I refer to as "helper lady" She is the one who is responsible for helping me with paying bills, running errands, cooking and cleaning, etc. She's not really meant to do the help with Halloween thing but because she's a kind hearted person, she did anyway. She did our make-up, and she drove so I could actually take the kids somewhere. Jerry had the flu or something wrong with his stomach and he couldn't drive us.
  
  I don't know how single parents of autistic kids do it. I really don't. My hats off to you mom and dads who do !
  
  
  

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