#youmightbeanautismparentif

I saw this hashtag floating around twitter today, and proposed the question to our moms. Here are the hilarous respones:

...You can quote entire scenes from your child's favorite movie, but have never seen it all the way through.

.....you can recognize a fellow autism family, adults have not enough sleep kids are flopping arms and reciting movies or running circles around everyone

...you buy costumes when it's not Halloween, and your child wears them EVERYWHERE.

... your kid has more electronic gadgets than you do.

....your 6 yr old asd kid still thinks he needs to eat baby food, but only if you feed him, not by himself.

....your kid can program and launch a NASA space ship to the moon, but is not able to tie his own shoe or brush his own teeth.

....can beat grown men at video games and make them cry. (Lol) 

....you know what PECS are. (Not the male version the educational version)       

....you know what OT, ST, PT, IEP, PECS, and PDD-NOS are without googling them.

... when you have to translate those ^ acronyms for your clueless friends.  

... if you've heard of, and researched the changes to the DSM and you aren't a healthcare professional. 

...You hear there's a sale on Melatonin and drop everything to run and get a cart full! 

...You hear there's a sale on wine and you drop everything to run and get a bigger cart full!

...Your smart phone is missing and you know exactly who has it! And you have no idea that the site that it's set to even existed!

....you go to McDonald's and order a cheeseburger happy meal but plain with no meat on the burger. Just bread and cheese.

...Your smart phone has suddenly started speaking with a British accent. 

...your child calls 911 from a non activated cell phone so many times you get a visit from the police.

..Your facebook gets updated with strange, incoherent status updates. And your friends all comment, "Hello, *insert child's name here*"

...you get random FaceTime calls from said asd kid and/or kids.