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Today, my son was eating some waffles and watching cartoons. A commercial came on that was talking about cereal and a toy. At the end of the commercial it said:

There's a toy in every box!! !

My son looked at me very confused and frustrated, and said very loudly, "Mom! They are lying! I've looked in a lot of boxes today and haven't found one toy like that at all!"

...I had to explain that they were talking about that specific type of cereal coming with a toy in the box!

An autistic boy was getting baptized in church this morning. Generally the way it works is that the person getting baptized stands up front with the pastor and answers some general questions. The questions were cut back a little for this boy because of the autism and public speaking and all. One exchange that they did have was quite humorous, however:

Pastor: "Why did you decide you want to be baptized today?
Boy: "Well, I know that I love Jesus, and I like water, so I'm getting baptized."

Always a good reason to get baptized. Because you like water.

Maybe he was saying that was one of the reasons he was going to put up with it.

I know that they spent quite a while talking about how to work it so that he wouldn't be upset about the change in routine. And I'm sure they also had to talk to him a lot about what was going to happen. I'm guessing that his parents reminded him several times, when going through what was going to happen, that he likes water. So then when he was up there in front, that's what came out. It was just funny that he gave that as a reason for being baptized.

lol, that's cute

It's pretty funny to watch my son and the neighbor kids play games. The little girl always wants to play house and he has like, no concept of pretending. That's not the funny part, lol-the interaction is.

2 occasions (more than that, but these 2 stick out in my mind) of prime examples:

#1:
Little girl: (to Zack) oh honey! You're home from work!! ! Tell me how your day was!
Zack: (ponders for a few minutes and just looks at her kind of blankly) Do you like my new Thomas the Tank engine shoes??? My granny got them for me on Saturday!

#2:
Little girl: (to Zack) Can you go to the store for me? (points to the kids bedroom/playroom) I saw a really pretty pink bag that I would love for my birthday there! I'll even give you the money to go get it for me if you want!
Zack: (immediately getting a very serious attitude) Actually, that's not a store, that's just my bedroom... and that's not just a pink bag, it's a Dora the Explorer Bookbag... and I don't think my sister would appreciate it very much if you took it from her, even if you paid her for it.
*Little girl just looks dazed*


Btw, I was never much on playing pretend either when I was growing up, lol. I'm not laughing to make fun of him, it's just kinda silly

When our daughter was younger, a maybe 6-7, we were in a grocery store when she saw 2 men on motorcycles. They had the bandanas,the worn look to them, etc. She says very loudly and points to them, "Bad Guys!! !" and then looks away, so we are left with our jaws to the floor. I thought we were gonna be in trouble, big trouble..... Another time, we were at a local park to walk, when she starts to hang onto a tree, the next thing we know she is dangling with her neck caught in the V of the tree! "Help! Help!" she yells, and we rescue her , she was absolutely fine, but we were very red-faced...I was with her on a field trip, she was maybe 5.We are on the bus and pass a rather heavy lady who is sitting down. My daughter pokes her in the tummy and goes'BEEP!" just like Pillsbury DoughBoy himself....The woman just laughed, so did I....

When I was little (physically that is); I was at grandma’s place, and it was my first time eating googy eggs, with toast cut up into little fingers (or "soldiers") next to the eggs.... She told me to dip my fingers into the eggs.

You can see how this goes....

LOL! These are great!

Tonight when we went to go get dinner (we got Taco Bell as a treat because he cleaned his own room) the guy at the drive thru window had really long hair and Zack kept yelling through the window "are you a boy or a girl?!?!?" The poor guy was really new, so he was nervous already, and I kept trying to answer Zack telling him it was a boy, but he just kept saying "well, he doesn't look like any boys I know" and he'd start yelling again. That was probably the first time I pulled away from the drive-thru without bothering to check the order, lol.

ok so i was walking downtown once and this dude asked me for some money, normally i give people money but i didnt like this guys attitude, he said "i bet your daddy bought you those shoes!" i was like uh actually i dont live with my dad and he hasnt bought me anything since i was 6. he just looked at me like ok i wasnt expecting that, and thats right son. nobody buys me anything!!

LOL

Thanks for responding guys Had a really rough day and am really enjoying these cute/funny stories.


I was talking to my therapist a few weeks ago and failed miserably at using a metaphor-he just wasn't getting anything else I was saying, lol. So I told him "It feels like there's a big boulder blocking my way-and I can't get around it to get the things done that I really need to". He sat for a second then said "what is this boulder made out of?"

(by this point I was already past the whole attempt at a metaphor and was no longer thinking about it whatsoever)

I just looked at him blankly and said "it's made out of..... rock?"

Those stories cracked me up!

Saturday afternoon my son was playing with the neighbor kid. They were playing Superman, and of course, they were both Superman. The neighbor kid, however-was going to fight crime, while Zack said he had to go to the store and buy some eggs, milk, and cheese because he had to go home and make dinner at 5:00.

You didn't fail at the metaphor. You did just fine. The problem is that therapists don't take metaphors at face value. They can't accept that you feel blocked in and stuck and leave it at that. They want you to think about exactly what in your life is blocking you in and making you feel like that.

If you were talking to anybody else, your boulder metaphor would have been just fine and it would have ended there. The only reason you got that question is because you were talking to a mental health professional.

Kids do say the funniest things , both my kids and myself have often slipped up and said embarrasing things just at the wrong time . for example

when my grandad died and we were going to the funeral the hearse was parked outside my grandmothers house and my grandmother, my son and I are standling silently on the driveway .

suddenly my son says , mum is grandad in that box so i say yes , son says how can he breathe, so i say he doesnt need to breathe anymore hes dead , son panics runs over to my grandma and says " grandma grandad can't breathe theres no holes in his box, "i think he got this from the travelling boxes we used to take our small animals to the vet , id always explained the importance of air holes .

I was never one for pretend play, either. I understood it, but I was a stickler for describing things correctly. I think the little boy was right on the money about his sister not wanting him to mess with her possessions. It would sound perfectly acceptable to me.

I think my most famous one from when I was a kid (maybe 10 or so) was this. At my grandmother's house, the canary's cage always got covered with a cloth at night, and then uncovered in the morning. I usually slept late, and the cage was uncovered by the time I got up. One morning, I wandered into the living room and the cage was still covered, so I went and uncovered it. A little confused at what I saw, I asked, "Grandma, does your bird always sleep on it's side in the bottom of the cage?"