Month: February 2019

Further to the Lego Therapy course, I bought a couple of Lego sets from eBay. I didn’t want to pay too much just to get him started. I bought 2 house sets and made them up. One was hinged so could open and close, the other was a 3 storey house with outdoor pool and trampoline! I tried to get him to help me make them, but he wasn’t interested.

Given that autism means imaginative play is difficult, I know he wouldn’t play houses with them, but I was glad to see him pretend jumping the figures on the trampoline. It’s a start! He liked to carry the hinged house and open and close it, but he didn’t look at the other house.

I saw a rollercoaster set on eBay and bought that, thinking he may need the Lego to do something. This has been the best money ever spent! He loves it! He will put the figures on and off and spin the rollercoaster round the track:

Lego Rollercoaster

On the back of the success of this, I bought the Lego big wheel:

Lego Ferris Wheel

This was expensive but we felt we need to try things to get his interest in something other than the iPad! I had £70 of Amazon vouchers which helped with the cost. The rollercoaster was such a success we wanted to capitalise on this and create a funfare. It has been great seeing him engage with the Lego figures – even if it is just to pull them apart and rebuild them!

I am working on a ‘Holiday’ page with information of the holidays we have been on and challenges we came across. I could split this into pre and post diagnosis, not that our son changed, but our handling of everything changed.

I live for my holidays, always have. Although accounting was what I wanted to do, I didn’t want to go to University. I just wanted a job, to get money, to go on holiday. I ended up, talked in to it by my dad, going to college which was only 2 years. I was the only one in my class who then didn’t go on to University but I am not a studious person at all. I have recently returned to studies and completed a professional accounting qualification. I was talked into it by someone in work, but I’m glad they did.

We have a holiday booked for July and it is a 4.5 hour flight. He has been great on flights so far, so I’m not worried about it, though this will be the longest flight he will have been on other than when he was a baby.

I can’t wait to take him to visit family in America who haven’t met him yet. We are planning Florida next year and hope that family stateside join us. Then, the world is our oyster as they say!

I just need to realise that it will take us a bit longer to do things. We need to wait till he is a bit older before doing longer flights.