Christmas holidays start in two hours😁🤞😴😉. Kids are exhausted. I am juggling everyone's demands. Gearing up for the full on Christmas see-saw of family expectations and achieve ability! Part of me wants to party 🎉 and see everyone and another part wants to stay in bed with the iPad and the curtains closed. I've just got to suck it up and get on with it🤶🏻. And so have the kids! The problem with Christmas away from home is that you are never truly comfortable, you are always at the mercy of other people's "house rules" and ways of doing things. Especially when it comes to social interaction. I get tired of doing talking for the kids when they won't answer the questions about school etc family members shoot at them. I get tired of trying to get my son to stop jumping in and out of the room when there is a film on he likes because he is big now and makes the China jump up and down and I'm scared he's going to break something, and then he's going to get shouted at(not by me). At home we behave how we need to, jump, spin, stim, repeat phrases over and over, chew clothes, shout, sometimes slam doors🙄, sing 🎶, I might redirect behaviours but I never get them to stop doing the things their body needs to do to stay calm. I get tired justifying their need to move, not be social, their need to have the iPad and zone out. I always do this I start to panic 🤔it will be fine, it will be fine. My family do their best, they just don't understand how hard Christmas is. #familychristmas #autism #autistickids #familylife #autisticchristmas #stimming #autismawareness #homemadechristmas #bethankful #begrateful #behappy #suckitupbuttercup https://www.instagram.com/p/BrpY5eEn5YD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h7exxmzslz3t