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last nite went to visit me Mums ~ wen we came out of me step~Mums A handed a cd to me he was in tears ~ laffin ~ he said "ya Da gave me this" twas Barney O'Shamrock ~ accordian music wen I asked why A replied "he reackons its bust" oh ~ " he sez it tells ya the songs on the back but he's played it a couple of times he can hear music but no singing!"

Hi Jen I cant wait to hear it x

lol Mel
will have to think of some thing my Dad has done

Take Care Jenxx

my Dad is obsessed with mobile phones he has 9 in a row on his coffee table and one which he keeps in a box next to his clock known as his "sunday phone" ~ cos its only taken out on Sunday's. Anyway he has 8 kids and a step-wife and one phone is allocated per person they are all identical but each phone contains only one phone number and is colourcoded with a chart to say which phone is which and to make extra sure he has given the corresponding number only to the corresponding person and then just in case he has taken our photos so our faces flash when we call and he also allocated us time slots to call and told us emergencies are to be kept to a minimum so we try to avoid those as one day 3 phones all rang at the same time and he could not decided which was most important so went to feed the cat ~ but I digress ~ the phone allocated to me as packed up so a new one as been secured and my number added and I'v had to go over it 3 times so he knows I deleted the number and added the new one. Incidently the phones to me seem to be arranged randomly they were in age order which I liked but my lil G used to mix em up and not remember how they went bk ~ he explained the age thing wasn't workin so now they are in order of size ~ Im the third biggest so Im third in the order {Im in same place cos third eldest also lol} he explained it 3 times. This system works for my Dad, but it did come under threat when one of my nieces tried to give him her phone number as she was off on hols ~ he told her he had 27 grandkids all with phones it wouldnt be fair to have hers and not the others {besides he would need a dining table to hold em all!}

The "Sunday phone" is kept in a box by the side of his clock and only comes out on Sundays as Sundays is the only time he leaves the house for exactly one hour. Although he already has a phone contaning my step-Mums number that phone like the others never leaves the house and cos he needed a phone to take out when he did on Sunday he "really" had to buy his "Sunday phone"!

Thanx Steve x

Just read through this great thread. As Muffy said...priceless. In the nicest possible way.

Steve.
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Thanx Whirley x

thers laffin and laffin and Ive seen both sides my Mark prefers this kind of laffing he has such a sense of humour and is a clever thing he uses the "taking everything literal" to wind us up now he loves his grandad cos he knows wher he's at they get each other even wen we dont!

Yer well Kay his mother had it to too and we think her father too from wats been passed on but he was certainly very strange ~ they are lovely peeps but its only now others are realising just how normal they really are and how they can go on to live a normal life ~ my Marks plans to be a teaching assistant in humanities for SEN kids he knows wher they are at! Unlike my grandmothers nephew at the turn of 1900's wen he was removed to an instituation for "testing" people;s opinons have changed and people are now realising they can be an asset to society.

You gotta laugh I guess xx

Mel, you dippy? Nah..............lol

gr8 thread...

Smiles from me:)

The string and compensation thing is really funny I have told it before but will add it here also.

Dad is obsessed with TV particularly adverts and qvc {?} anyway he saw one bout this bloke tripping over a piece of string and being awarded £20 grand in compensation. MY Dad was determined to try it out for himself he became totally obsessed by this piece of string and the £20 grand compensation. He re-inacted the scenario several times but could not fall over the piece of string, but he was very patient ~ every time we visited he kept us informed of his progress ~ he never could fall over that piece of string, but we all got took up with it too and made extra visits "just in case" but it got that we had to leave the kids in the car in case they "upset" the string! He never did get it to work or £20 grand compensation ~ he still ponders on it betimes and sometimes A asks him how he's coming along with his "string project"!

God Mel thats a real beating within one family to suffer.I dont really understand Autisim but it shows with your dad they can go one to have a normal life ie get married, children ,,even if somewhat regimented,,,,good for them.

Kaz they can be so funny I bet they all loved every minute of it even though it would have paniked everyone else but am laffin cos I know where he's at!

my uncle has asd........... he got put in a shopping trolley by both his grandsons and pushed down a hill.............. lmao xxx

Thank you Tony n Muffy x

Kay I've lived with it all my life its part of me ~ my grandmother, my Dad, my brother, all my nephews, my son ~ all classic autistics and my daughter has wats known as autistic tendencies and her GDD places her on the autistic spectrum ~ its not easy but you learn to adapt to everything like my son at the moment is 14 doing his GCSE's not that he wants to he feels like a 2 year old and likes nothing better than to get down on the carpet with Grandad and play potato heads and yet I've been told he's the only pupil who is on top of all his coursework and thats for 11 GCSE's ~ hes a baby trapped in a growing mans body but he wouldn't change a thing n neither would I ~ he's fiercely independent!

So am I.......that story is priceless !!!!!!!xx

You may have noticed I don't do net abbreviations (apart from the odd lol when something could be taken two ways), but I really am pmsl!!!

very funny mel.but serious it must have been hard for you growing up with it, but its probally helped with your own family in ways.

Yes Tony the book grows by the day ~ I told my youngest I was gunna put my foot down about summat n my son came over to me got on the floor looked at both feet stood up looked me squarely in the eye and said but both your feet are already down! lol