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Originally Posted by Ammi
....hmmm last post but I worked for many years with a Down Syndrome child and I do know that with her, removing or moving her from a place she wanted to be at a moment in time was never a good idea and always inevitably caused a complete 'meltdown' if it had to be done...the act of 'removing', the whole physical contact of that, had to always be on her terms for her to stay calm... so that would be something to be considered as well and that mum, knowing her son's sensory limitations may have felt the 'safest' was to 'laugh with him' and then allow him to come out on his own and help him gently when he was ready...also, if he saw the washing machine as a 'cocoon' then it would make sense to me that she would keep it always unplugged....
..I don't see anything that would indicate a 'bad parent' in any way, she's a single mum I think..?..and seems to be doing a great job with her son and I also know how challenging a Down Syndrome child can be even with two active parents....her only silliness and naivety was to post the pic on a Social Media site but she's surely realised that now with a thud...the bouncy castle vid, well that's a few seconds in their lives and there are many, many pics of an extremely happy child...the police have investigated as have social workers and they seem perfectly happy so far as I can see so I'll assume that her parenting is perfectly fine and that she's doing a fine job and well done her.... a beautiful son as well....
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Ammi, I agree totally. Things seen in isolation and with all the vitriol that the tabloids spout forth can easily take on other connotations. The mother is not much more than a child herself, and would not necessarily perceive the implications these pictures would cause.
All I can say is that I clearly remember as a young child how much I loved being thrown on to our trampoline, so I could bounce up, and how much I would shout, again. As for the leg-grabbing, my dad used to pretend to be a shark when we all went swimming, we'd all scream with delight when one of us was caught.
Down's children do demand additional sensory stimulation and so I feel as a young mother herself, she is in no way deserving of the aggression she is receiving.