Comments on: You want what?

By: Alexgone

Alexgone — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:04:46 +0000

Your story made me laugh out loud. I had to cover my mouth at my terminal when I saw the wrestling picture. Earlier this year my older son (14 yr) and I had to hold down the second son (13 yr with mile Aspergers) so that he would get a hair cut. It’s nice to hear that we are not the only ones that have had to do that!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:37:58 +0000

Oh, this is so true!!!! Loved the wrestling picture. One of the first times we took Jakie (ASD) in for a haircut, the barber had no idea what the problem was, and told ME that it was “all these women hanging around, causing the problem.” Hmmmm…we never went back!

I’ve found a few hairdressers that will use scissors rather than clippers (that buzzing drives him nuts) and the outcomes have been much more positive.

By: Brenna

Brenna — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:31:05 +0000

That is soooo true!! I love the wrestling story. I used to have to cut my sons hair in the back yard strapped to a highchair and just hope that the cops did not get called. It was horrible!! He has gotten better, I just shave it as fast as I can and as short as I can. He still screams and freeks but he is old enough (10 years) to understand the beauty of a reward at at the end.

By: awalkabout

awalkabout — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:58:24 +0000

Boy do I hear that!! Little Miss, now 8, wouldn’t even let us comb her hair when she was 2 and 3. We had to persuade her that we’d only do it for as long as it took to get through the alphabet song. (Sometimes Z was more like z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-zzz.)

And a salon? with the clippers and the hair dryers and the Muzak and the women chatting? HA.

But she’s gotten slowly over it thanks to sensory integration work. Now she won’t let me cut it any more–she has to go to the haircut store where they have a TV with kid videos and a little carousel horse to sit on (Famous Hair). So there is hope.