I'm 13 and have a question about Autism

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We are so glad to be able to help you Cotton.

Colton we're glad to have you with us. You're an appealing person and your situation is very interesting. And we are eager to help any way we can. You might find this book BOY ALONE A Brother's Memoir about having an autistic brother interesting.

My guess is that he does it for the reaction or attention. Kids on the spectrum can crave attention so much that some will do whatever they can to be scolded, as even that is a form of attention. He's either doing it for attention, in which case the best thing you can do is ignore it each time and don't react, and he'll eventually stop. The other possibilities are that he thinks it's funny/smart or he just has a thing with pairs and taking one of a pair.

How's your kid doing, Scottie?

Today was very different had to go to the grocery store it was the first time with my stepbrother. Mom didn't think anything of it we have been to stores with him but somehow this was different no a lot of people but he just melted down like never before or like we have never seen not sure why he would be fine then we would go down a row to get something and he lost it we would leave the row and he was fine he was not like crabbing anything or seem to want anything he just didn't want to be on that rowI learned people are mean one lady said if my mom wipe his butt he wouldn't act that way, not excatly the words she used. another guy said there is another mass murderer being raised.one lady told my mom she needed to learn to control her brat and one lady called the police which was funny because the first officer that showed up was my real dad's brother and the second officer was my stepdad and even an ambulance came and my aunt was the EMT, so it was like a mini family reunion in the grocery store and my stepdad was not nice to the lady that called she keep running her mouth about how my mom needed to raise her child and learn to control him it was the same as abuse letting him be a spoiled brat and act like that plus he had two bruises one on his face and one on his arm He did that when he had a melt down at the doctors office when he saw the doctor which he does not like of course niether do I, he gives shots. My stepdad stood there and tried to talk to the lady and finally told her if she would stop talking and listen he could explain she would not stop MY uncle finally said lady, it seems to me your the one making a scene and qouted some law so close your mouth or you can go with me she got real quit fast and my stepdad explain my stepbrother had Autism he went in to more detail but I don't understand all of it the words are pretty big The lady turned red and said he doesn't look like it. (I thought what does Autism look like), then she said I don't know why someone didn't just say that My aunt said maybe because you wouldn't be quite long enough or maybe it is not your job to raise other peoples kids the lady walked off not sure what caused him to meltdown but my stepdad said it may have been the smell on certain rows or the temp.change because we did go down some very cold rows even the floor was very cold to get frozen items. we did finish food shopping mom said she thought it was best to do that my stepdad said it was luck that my stepbrother knew all the first responders because he would not have dealt well with so many people around him that close plus he really don't have a fear or uniforms because he sees them so much. anyways not sure how I feel about all of this today I will say I got a little embarrassed by it because some kids from school seen it all I feel bad because I did but it is the way I felt after we left there and took the food home Now we are going to go again and shop hope it goes better

That is hilarious that so many people in your family are first responders and they all showed up.

well the day dot way better My stepbrother ended up really good he had a good day so we had a good day we even went swimming he is like a fish but I learned a lot too day

Adventures in autism. Yeah one of the hardships of autism is people like that lady. Autistic meltdowns often have to due with some sensory overload over something no one else can detect. This is a good little chart about meltdowns.

I think you may be right that he may have been triggered by a smell. When I am at the store and I go down the laundry/soap isle especially, the smell is so overwhelming sometimes that I can't tolerate it. If he was close to the soap isle or the laundry isle, the smells could have been too much for him. There are also some food isles that I can't tolerate also because of the smells.