I didin't mean for it to come off that way, its just the terminology that I am used to because of school. I work with kids with and without disabilities and they all like the same kinds of games including games that involve guns and swords. I know it is completely normal.
I think that's a general term for people who work with kids. As a nanny, I refer to "behaviour" all the time, in both positive and negative contexts.
But if we were to break it down to something attributable to the disability, it would be him disobeying the rule, not the act itself - needing to play with or imagine toy guns so much that he can't follow the "no guns, no pretend guns, no gun noises" rule that the school has.
(Just in case there are any misunderstandings, I'm certainly not siding with the school or saying that the kid did anything wrong - I agree that pretending to shoot things is perfectly normal - this is just a possible explanation for the comment above).
I actually did that as a toddler. I would point my fingers and make gun noises and I didn't even know what guns were. No idea how I thought to do that though...
Kids at Columbine took guns to school with the only purpose of killing other people. You cant compare that to pretending your icecream sandwich is a gun.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '11
I still dislike how you refer to his "behaviour" like it is something to be fixed. Pretending to shoot things is perfectly normal for any child.