Wednesday 3 January 2018

The dog betrayed me...!



This my friends is one of the more interesting aspects of being a parent to a child with ASD....
As you can tell, Immi was not at all happy with her Dad (not to be referred to as Dad at this precise time of course!) But what were the actions that had led up to this? Had dad been unreasonable? Let me unfold the evening for you...

1.Immi had snuck chocolate up to her room.
2. Aforementioned chocolate was all over her room.
3. Immi took the dog to her room.
4. Dog ate ears off chocolate bunny.
5. Dad aka Mr A M Golder (!) took rest of chocolate bunny and threw it in the bin and told Immi the dog was not sleeping in her room.

Immi was NOT happy. Lamenting ensued and then at about 11pm this note came through the door.




We explained that we weren’t being mean but it was a consequence of her putting the dog in danger...more lamenting and crying. At about midnight I heard noise and went to investigate. This is what I found...




Apparently the dog had betrayed her!

No words! No words! This my friends is called mind blindness, where there is a total inability to see anyone else’s point of view. Not even the dog’s - who by the way she considers to be her brother which is very frustrating for her real brother!

She eventually fell asleep about 1am I think and it remains to be seen how she will be this morning!!!