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Post by daffin on Jan 25, 2019 18:13:46 GMT
Hello all. Mouse is struggling at the moment. I’m seeing a lot of ‘push me pull you’ behaviour and she’s being very indiscriminate - including hugging adults she’s never met before. She’s not good at reading emotions in faces and doesn’t realise when people are embarrassed or when a hug has gone on too long and people are embarrassed.
Does anyone have any advice? I remember someone talking about bubbles of different sizes for family, friends and strangers. I wonder if you could explain this - or any other approaches - in more detail? Thank you!
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Post by gilreth on Jan 25, 2019 21:35:34 GMT
The bubbles analogy is one we are using to good effect with Sqk - basically everyone has a bubble around them and for people we do not know we should not get close enough to pop it. We have demonstrated with blowing bubbles round things (not easy) and showing how fragile they are.. With family we are fine to pop it and with friends need to ask. Sqk is also not good at reading social situations (not that I can talk given my autism).
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Post by larsti on Jan 31, 2019 14:15:23 GMT
When we did a Barnados course about parenting ASD children, they used circles rathe
r than bubbles (although I like the idea of popping the bubble as an illustration.
It was the child in the centre and then concentric circles around for family, friend, strangers. There was some mention of going within an arms length of strangers but I thought that wasn't necessarily helpful because if, say your sitting next to someone on the bus or standing nect to someone on bus, you are closer than an arms length and given ASD people's tendency to take things literally I am not sure if 'rules' such as this are helpful.
I mean I remember so well after Dash picked up the idea of 'personal space' from school, he told me off for putting my arm round him. patting his shoulder or ruffling his hair. 'PERSONAL SPACE' 'Erm, I'm you Mum' 
Daffin I am going to PM you about something else.
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