I’m beginning to think she is just setting poor Wilby up to fail sometimes. Who would take a toddler, never mind a (level 3) autistic one to a posh place like that to eat and expect them to cope.
I have an asd child, when he was small we never ate out with him, takeaways or carefully prepped picnics became our “treat meals”. As he has got older Pizza Hut buffet has been the one “treat” we can share as a family. They always have pepperoni pizza on the go and there is no real waiting. The rest of us have also perfected eating politely but quickly in order to help with the leaving when we need to. In ‘emergencies’ one of us adults leaves with asd child and regulates him while others enjoy the end of their meal. It’s really no drama and it’s our norm so we just move on without causing a scene or documenting it so asd child can look back in later life and read about how he ruined our life (because he doesn’t)
![Woman facepalming :woman_facepalming: 🤦♀️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f926-2640.png)
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coincidentally we also now have a toddler, she is an absolute handful. A mix of being a good chunk younger than her 4 older siblings and also just having the wild personality of a toddler. She very much acts similar to Wilby in some ways. Sometimes I look at her and think she could possibly be asd but I don’t dwell on it. Instead we get down to her level without filming her, try and talk her through her upset, cuddle her, reassure her and sometimes discipline her and show her better ways to deal with things if that’s what’s needed.
occassionally we also leave her with the grandparents and we go do big kid stuff, without a fuss and a “woe is me” post. Other times we take her and leave the big kids because while she finds soft play amazing, the teenagers don’t
![Woman shrugging :woman_shrugging: 🤷♀️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f937-2640.png)
it’s no big deal it’s just life.
Also throw in to the mix one of our children has an auto immune disease that requires regular in patient hospital treatment and numerous tablets daily and I could write a whole post on “mum-guilt” but I won’t. Instead I just do my best, yes I lean on people for support but that’s my parents and siblings along with the same three friends I’ve had since the age of 12. Not every Tom, dick and Harry I say hi to now and again!!
Why can’t Rancid just see that she is the problem here?! Her family set up, dynamics and W’s diagnosis aren’t out of the ordinary, not completely uncommon but the way she reacts to it and chooses to document their personal lives for the world to see is completely out of the ordinary. At first I thought it a bit bizarre but as time goes on it’s just becoming evil and damaging