Today is the last day of term for our boy in his penultimate year (year 5) at Primary school. Easter holidays have been a long time coming (for him) and he has planned to take us somewhere… so it’s Off We Go To London.

We’ve been to London before but this is different, this is educational, driven by the motives our youngest son Oliver!

On his list of interests are the following places, based on something he has been studying at school and what has clearly fired his imagination to want us to share in his excitement. Perhaps you can join in and try to work out what it is that drives a nine year old boy to such positive behaviour?

1. the Imperial War Museum,
2. the Tower of London,
3. Tower Bridge,
4. The Houses of Parliament,
5. Buckingham Palace,… you name it and he wants to visit it!

Top of his list is to take me (his Dad) to see where Churchill did his wartime planning.

Well, the film ‘Darkest Hour’ has made its mark and influenced, even impressed and motivated our son towards never giving up, whatever the challenge. I remember him taking me to the cinema and he was the only person younger than 40-50 years old. He is only NINE but in fairness he did study the Second World War a couple of months ago in his school (stage 5). Seems as though he liked the project so much that it has taken him over. So, before I leave this celebration of my son’s latest interest, I must tell you how keen he is to find books and shred every word and picture from their pages of WW-1 and WW-2 stories. My boy devours information about his interests!

“So what?”, you might ask, but I have to say he was probably the only person in that cinema who could name and describe, even quote word-for-word, all the wartime political leaders on all fronts across the world stage from Pearl Harbour to Dunkirk, the battles of Africa and the Arctic, the Blitz, D-day and, he’s just told me, the most horrific moments of the war, the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In that film, ‘Darkest Hour’, Oliver knew what was coming before the actors had a chance to take their breath! His level of knowledge is impressive. It makes me full of parental surprise and pride in equal measure.

Having an autistic son brings out the best in parents, never wanting to miss out on any opportunity to support and marvel at their educational and social developments. Most of the time we are focused on the multitude of their daily needs spread across that wide autistic spectrum- especially during this… International Autistic week.

Please ask yourself these questions:

1. Do you know anybody who is autistic?
2. Do you understand the condition?
3. What do you think about the challenges we all share of integrating autistic children into mainstream lifestyle?
4. If you know someone who is going to have a baby, the chances of that baby being born with some form of autistic type challenge is about one in twenty.
5. Have you any idea what might cause autism in babies?
6. Is there a cure for Autism?

Thank you for taking part, discovering colourful aspects of our special life in the world of autism.

Without doubt, we feel blessed to have such a vibrant and inspirational child who learns and lives in a parallel autistic world, arguably better in many ways than our equally challenging, mainstream existence.

What next?…  Off We Go To London.

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