Bingo bonkers!

Down at a holiday park, and what other great way of raising some autism awareness than taking two children with autism and one possible autism?

Especially when the bingo started and the youngest undiagnosed started with full on echolalia, in the middle of the dance floor in her own little world!

22 two little ducks, quack quack

22 two little ducks quack quack

Two fat ladies 88

Two fat ladies 88

2 and 8 twenty eight

2 and 8 twenty eight

You get the drift right?

So we quieten her down, which let me tell you is no mean feat, when she wants to do something she will do it. In the middle of all this I'm running around after lolly who's like proper on one; we have our meal just turned up, moo ma copying every single number the bingo caller calls, lolly is desperate to play but these tickets are like £6 quid a book and I want that prize!!! So I'm appeasing her with the last tickets and a pencil.

She's not stupid! She's screaming, and running off. My book is torn to shreds, and by this point I'm pretty sure that even if I won they would call it as invalid as the book is such a state!

Everyone by now is staring! I'm not that fussed, more stressed out cause I want that prize and I know I've missed a few numbers, Jesus can't they just sit down for once while mummy plays bingo? No chance! There extra crazy.

I'm up by now, chasing them around the dance floor, moo ma makes a quick escape and lolly is agitated! She wants more sweets and the sweet man is also the bingo caller.

I'm running across the dance floor hoping and praying I don't slip up on lollys fruit slush she threw around earlier, and mentally placing the called numbers into a neat little box in my photo memory for when I make it safely back to the table.

Phew that was a close one, I've warned them now and shoved a new lolly in their gobs and the promise of another quid when the bingo finishes.

I sit down, grab that mental photo out my brain and start scribbling on my sorry looking bingo book. YES!! No one called bingo but I still have about 6 numbers on my sheet. In quick succession the caller calls 5 of my numbers! I'm winning I'm winning! 1TG!!!!!

Then he calls a few more and

22! Two little ducks!

22! Two little ducks!

BINGO!!!!! £35

I'd call that a massive Autism Parent success!!!!

As soon as I collected my winnings we were up and out of there! Shattered!!!

Jodes X