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Archive for the 'meltdowns' Category

Mar 06 2009

Change in Routine: Slow Process

Asperger's, autism, characteristics, meltdowns, PBS, routines, television

Gus has a routine for after school: Watch one PBS show, do homework (Monday through Thursday), watch two more shows until dinner at which time the PBS lineup ends.  What he hasn’t come to accept yet is that periodically, PBS does membership drives that pre-empt his shows.  They are doing one such drive today.

When he came in from school, there was a free Doo-Wop concert on.  I didn’t pay very close attention at first, but when I realized he was still listening to it, I was tickled.  About half an hour later, I realized that the concert had ended and he was listening to something akin to Doo-Wop elevator music and staring at pledge level ads.  When I asked why he still had that on, he got upset that his shows would not be coming on this afternoon.  He honestly expected Electric Company to come on any minute.  Leave it to good old mom to be the bearer of bad news.

Fortunately, the drama that followed was very short-lived and he found something else to watch…at least until his sister decided she didn’t like it and shut the television off.

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