so proud, we crossed a major hurdle tonight

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My GF's AS son usually completely freaks out if the smoke alarm goes off.

Today, we tripped it while cooking, and he calmly placed his fingers in his ears, and went to go look for his ear muffs. When he could not find them, he came back downstairs, and asked me for ear plugs. Once the earplugs were in, he went right back to what he was doing.

This is a 1000 fold improvement over just a year ago.

Cool, sounds like handled that in a pretty straightforward and logical manner.
How old is he?

He's 10 years old. 1 year ago, he would have been screaming, flailing around, and just about in tears.

It's amazing how far he has come. At first it seemed like there were so many insurmountable challenges, but I am so proud of how brave he has been at tackling them, and how quickly he is overcoming them.

We just tucked him in, and he was telling me that today he was playing with a bunch of his friends on the playground, and they were wrestling and tackling each other. At first I was worried, but he was laughing about it... and I could see in his eyes that he genuinely enjoyed playing with the other kids. 1 year ago we would have never imagined this in our wildest dreams.

Yay!! ! Well done to both of you.

My youngest (5) has a panic when the alarm goes off.

One day, when we'd just moved to a new location - and he didn't know what the new alarm sounded like ... we heard a low beeping noise.
My older son (8) had set the oven timer off.

There followed a shriek, tears, crying etc and then we saw both boys crawling on their hands and knees towards the front door.

My older son had pretended to his brother that is was the fire alarm and told him that his bedroom was on fire - they had to "get down low and go. go. go."

I know that it was a form of bullying (but it's was also quite funny to watch). We all had a good laugh afterwards and this helped my younger son start to cope with the sounds.

If nothing else, at least we know that he knows what to do if there's a fire.

That's awesome!! my 10 year old is still a screamer when the alarm goes off, but at least he doesn't bolt out the back door anymore so we're slowly improving.

Wow! Congrats. That is huge! What a difficult hurdle to overcome.