Meltdowns verses a naughty child. A trip to Tesco's to buy an outfit for Halloween. James suddenly didn't want us to pay for things he wanted to leave the store. He threw himself on the floor when I stopped him from running. The security guard watched us with an air of suspicion. Thoughts do I admit defeat, dump the shopping in the store and come back another time. James still clinging onto the witched outfit. No I went to the express checkout. James followed me taking his coat off he screamed, everyone looked. I announced sorry he has autism. As we left the store refused to move. So I borrowed a basket as I thought I could carry him, his coat and the shopping. As we walked through door still screaming he tried to grab my hair and ended up grabbing my mask and pulling it off my face. I dropped some of the shopping. The security guard concerned asked if I was ok and gave me my mask back. I struggled to get James acro...
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