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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You never know who has communication issues. Mine has mild selective mutism. I prepped her to say TOT and thank you. If I didn't remind her, she might not because of the excitement of the night. She did for most of the houses and I was very proud. But if someone asked her any further questions, she probably didn't respond.[/quote]

My kid has selective mutism too. Last night he would only say trick or treat to me, not to the people handing out candy :( Therapist recommends that we don't speak for him or pressure him, but I did both of those things last night because of the judgment I knew we'd get from people like OP. It's a bummer. [/quote]

My kid with ASD would often forget or was not able to say thank you when he was younger. I ALWAYS reminded him on the spot. At least you can speak for him and say "thank you." That's not pressuring, that's modeling.

Fast forward to now, he is 13 and was handing out candy. He himself was commenting on kids not saying thank you and grabbing handfuls of candy. He is very rigid about certain things and was getting wound up about it, but I told him to have grace and the spirit of Halloween was to have fun not to judge or count candy. His comment to me was "you always thought me to say "please" and "thank you." It's ingrained." It does stick with them so keep modeling good behavior.

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