#sy and our hands would get gross and sticky!! Yuck!

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falling down an aba therapy rabbit hole god so many people just treat autistic people with fluctuating abilities as subhuman there is always a better workaround for kid AND parent but really its not about the parent here its abt the kid

#just saw avideo of one kid. slightly messy eater. He could communicate he understood that it wasn't the best and was being punished for ea #ting with his hands like. grughf. Youcould discuss WHY he likes eating with his hands. Maybe its a sensory thing or maybe it helps him to #bring the food to his mouth that way maybe his motor skills with forks is harder than it was for him to write. He really liked writing may #be before supper or while supper is being cooked you turn his writing fixation into a game. Lets see how much you can write before I finish #supper in 30 mintues!! And then we're gonna eat for 30 minutes! #Or like. Help him to understand some foods CAN be eaten with hands and its ok but some foods we have to eat with a fork. Yeah it can be con #fusing. Lets write a list of food we can eat with our hands and ones we cant! Can we eat... ice cream with our hands? No! That'd be so mes #sy and our hands would get gross and sticky!! Yuck! #SORRY. I just. hate when people dont remember kids are real live functional human beings #my next door neighbors kid was autistic as well #Mostly nonverbal but once you were around him enough you could really hear his own voice! He COULD talk you just had to listen and I did!! #We would talk or he'd show me what he was doing and I would listen and I taught him how to find out the age of anyone (their birthyear minu #s current year) and he got hooked on doing that forever. LIKE its not hard to respect and learn *with* autistic people. GRRRRGHDGDJH #I get told a lot im gr8 with kids and its like haha yeah bc I remember kids are living breathing individuals who WANT to be treated like t #hey are that and not dumb idiot babies who cant think for themself #You would be amazed CONSTANTLY by how SMART little kids can be if you LISTENED to them oh my god!!