I'm autistic and I'm a car/train enthusiast. I have OO (HO) scale trains and I used to go trainspotting (railfanning) until them dreaded GCSEs came along.
I remember that George’s friend Carl in the Arthur episode “When Carl Met George” (who is on the spectrum) had an interest in trains when he was first introduced. Over time he developed other interests including space, rocket ships, baseball, and playing the accordion.
This was a good video and I liked all the trains you and your sons got to see. I’m surprised how big the trains are! I’m glad your family had a good time and hopefully soon all of your family will get to explore more together with your wife as well. Praying for you, your family and all those this coming summer (and winter in the south of the world). Family time is a blessing and special therapy I believe. 😊
Awesome video. I have form of autism and enjoy trains and rail fanning. Thank you so much for sharing this, you had some real good points too. Great content as always. Thanks again for what you do for our autism community.
Your relationship with your child is the most important thing. They're still a child a person imagine no breaks from school when you were a kid don't expect it from your autistic child that also has higher burnout
Going outside for a walk or just being outside on the playground helps my son after a meltdown, today just happened to be one of those days. He is 9 and Autistic as well. My husband is autistic too and getting out and about helps with his meltdowns too. Loved this video! So glad you guys are posting again!
Looks like a fun day for all of you! Reminds me of the sensory-seeking video at the mall you made (think it was at Christmas time) where you just let the boys see new things, smell things and even taste things. Such days where we can just be ourselves, go outside and get fresh input are super important and are in itself a kind of therapy. It does us no good to be shielded from everything, stuck at home or in therapy offices. As an autistic adult, I find myself having to explain this a lot, even though we can get overstimulated easily, understimulation can be just as bad. We still want to experience and see things like everyone else and get away from the day-to-day for a while. It's great to see you're trying to give your kids that when you get the chance!
I'm also autistic and love trains, space, and 1/64th scale cars such as Hot Wheels and Matchbox! A therapy for me is riding at the skatepark (scooter)!
I was born a century too late too 😂 People tell me this all the time. I love all the old things! I love the nostalgia . I was born in 88’ and the 50’s thru 90’s were great!!! I also would have been okay with being around in the 50’s and 60’s ! Those looked like some really cool times as well as a century ago as well 😅
I love this! My type of therapy other than being with my therapist is like either riding in the car with the window down and the wind, listening to some epic music feeling like I’m in a movie, or also acting. So, yea I love being in a fantasy as a therapy!
Alistair looked like he enjoyed that the most. I would struggle with the loudness of the running of the locomotive and the whistle, they would definitely hurt my ears, even on a good day. I can't stand the smell of a steam train either (my father hates it when I say I prefer the smell of a diesel locomotive!).
I've always been of the belief that anything that brings you happiness is Therapy. Personally for me, Music production, Mechanical watches and Steam trains are my thing haha. I was born in the Wrong Century and in the Wrong Country lol, there's something about rattling through the old west on a locomotive that's so alluring lol.
I have autism since I was little kid i have a night lights and a fan that's me sleep. And my phone helps me sleep with youtube videos. I will always Support. Autism kid's because i have autism.
I love train rides as well to. last year when we took my Nephew to Australia we were riding in a train from New mexico to LA and it was a fun time. I like how on trains your could move around and enjoy different things. I think the hard thing for me is someimtes riding in airplanes.
I dont think its overlooked by all of us in the ASD community, its more or less that society makes it way more difficult for us to relax or enjoy anything financially or have anything due to poor societal treatment of us adult or child. I have way more issues with my ASD and CP now than at any point in my life due to mostly societal and financial reasons. Eg: I love my bucket garden, but others wont leave me or the buckets alone, they get stolen, destroyed etc by others. My bucket garden is deemed medical need kind of like a service animal. It makes it hard to do anything, manage, enjoy anything or even go outside and gets demeaning. My health has drastically went down hill due to these things. BTW, autism and trains, LOVE IT. Love trains alot.
I'm on the spectrum and being involved with a volunteer fire department as a kid was so beyond helpful. Riding the trucks, pulling hoses and fighting fire-nothing better.
I’m glad therapy is also getting out and doing what you love as well. As an autistic person, I get very bored and anxious at the waiting room at a doctor’s or dentist office. I love getting out of my house doing all kinds of things train related. I also love shopping, dining, zoos, aquariums, vacations on a cruise ship and of course Disney World. Thankfully I live in Florida. However I grew up in Massachusetts. On the train subject, when it comes to heritage railroads, even to this day, I’m tired of them being pulled by diesel. I prefer steam engines. But I have gotten fond of modern freight and passenger diesel’s like the ones on CSX, NS, and FEC here in Jacksonville FL. As well as Amtrak. I also do have a fondness for animals as well. Pet dogs and cats. Even wild animals. At the zoo I like elephants, giraffes, and from Asia, tigers. As for sea creatures, I’m fond of very tropical fish, coral reefs, and definitely dolphins.
Nice. Well I have autism and I have been doing my own channel for nearly 7 years. Yes at times it can be noisy over here in the UK and sometimes train horns can be very powerful Regarding Train Therapy with Autism some good points which in my case it helps when I go travelling on the train even at times the journey doesn't always go smoothly.
I have autism myself, and I don’t really use trains as a therapy for me, but I do like trains after all due to my dad working on the rails plus I watched a little bit of Thomas & Friends back in the day lol nowadays I just watch video essays of different types of trains like the GP-38s old railroad companies like Penn Central that don’t exist anymore my focus now is more on severe weather, but I do occasionally like to look back and see what’s happening now and the future for the railroad industry
My son is 2 and has autism, his is severe and he doesn't sleep at night at all, no matter what we do. We stay on a strict schedule, I was wondering if you had any advice? You're doing such a great job!
I loved your guys trip the train ride looks like lots of fun maybe I should give it a try! Also I agree with what you said about Autistic Therapy because our therapy can be our special interests or just having fun doing things we love to do! I love going to Water Parks even though I can’t swim I love playing with the water it makes me happy Stim a lot! And it’s true when some specialists try to normalize Autistic people even giving them Medication it happened to me when I was younger because people mistook my Sensory Overloads for bratty tantrums and my dad thought that giving me Medication would cure my Autism but luckily my mom told him not to give it to me anymore and I’ve been better without it! You should be able to be Autistic and Stim without people judging or making fun of you about it but people do it to me all the time and it hurts my feelings a lot but people just tell me to stop being sensitive but ig even though I’m constantly bullied I should just be able to ignore it like everyone else. I really wished I had understanding parents like you guys it’s amazing how much you care and know about your kids your easily the best family on TH-cam keep up the great work! ❤
This is my type of therapy. Always had been and always will be. I have HFA and trains are my hobby for life lol. But yeah it's a great deal to go ride on trains whenever you can
I recognize number 93 of this railroad so I watch coaster most of the time but I know configuration for 93 I might know a lot of you guys asked: “Meena what is 93 is wheel configuration?” to answer that number 93 is a 2-8-0 consolidation no training wheels
I hate that allistic people try to make us more like them. 35 years of (generally well intentioned) people forcing me to fit in (or else) has been traumatising. Be your wonderful autistic selves. If an aspect of your autism is causing you trouble, find a way around it. Help your autistic friends and family to find ways of doing things that work for them. Teach your kids self advocacy, self compassion and self understanding. ❤
Some sounds are loud to me at home and all my mom says is stop doing that your not in elementary school . Just because im 17 1/2 age doesnt define if i have a higher chancs of being diagnosed with ASD which my symptoms have been showing mainly in the social interaction area my entire life up to now .
Iam Tamara Hadler from Barmstedt germany! Ilove the Autism Family ❤❤❤😮 Ian is a beautyful Child je is soo Sweet besause he is to Young for me. Gretihngs to Ian from Tamara from Germany, Ilove Ian Owen❤❤❤❤
I have asbergers I still call it that i love trains but more diesel and electric power and I love train horns I don’t mind loud noises when I was a kid I hated them really enjoyed the video
This looks so awesome. I would love to go here someday. I really want to get ABA therapy as mental health therapist suggested. Why does mental health keep discharging me? Can mental health help with autism? I understand when on routine and have a consistent environment i don't have behavioral issues or emotional issues. But I get speech therapy and occupational therapy and physical therapy. Physical therapy for my back.
This is a very interesting channel and the comment section is surprisingly interesting. Do you think there has been an active reluctance to diagnose and talk about autism ADHD and dyslexia possibly due to its cause? Your wife seems very intelligent and beautiful. But I feel like all this is taking a lot out of her. I'm just curious. Do you continue to work on your diet? I've been surfing the web for the last twenty-four years and have been working on my diet for the last eighteen. Did you know that humans are basically carnivores? We don't need to eat plants and are much happier and healthier when we don't.
Question: Do you still have Ian on risperidone? Why/why not? My son goes nuts when he misses more than one dose, seems like he might be on this for long term… also how did Ian not gain weight?
@AutismFamilyChannel Oh, Jesus, no. Humans are carnivores. We don't need to eat plants and are much happier and healthier when we don't. Please, please, please take the 90-day beef, butter, bacon, and egg challenge. 1:05
Why call it therapy? Its not like aba etc. it does not have standards to hold up or antything. You can make the rules instead off set rules... Same way as learning about trains does not make it school or a course about trains... When fraising it this way everything could be called therapy. It's important to do those things for sure. I guess i just don't understand why you call it therapy when in my eyes it's clearly not. Love how you all enjoyed it even if it had the downside off loud train noises. The rest made up for a good time.
Sure and it was more of a question, a hypothesis. It also depends on which definition you go by. From Cambridge: “a treatment that helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after an illness:” I’m not married to it being “therapy” but I wonder if it can be just like horse therapy for autistic people, etc.
@@AutismFamilyChannel When you explain it like this it makes more sense. Thank you. I guess I don´t like turning everything into `therapy` . (don't see a need for it. i guess i see it as just the things in live that everybody does or should do to make them feel better. If its trains, cars, painting or whatever suites that person)
These type of experiences happen to be some of the therapy one can get + your making memories with your boys. I love this 4 you all..
I love trains, and there are a ton of trains that go through Jacksonville Illinois every day and often times I record them
I'm autistic and I'm a car/train enthusiast. I have OO (HO) scale trains and I used to go trainspotting (railfanning) until them dreaded GCSEs came along.
I remember that George’s friend Carl in the Arthur episode “When Carl Met George” (who is on the spectrum) had an interest in trains when he was first introduced.
Over time he developed other interests including space, rocket ships, baseball, and playing the accordion.
Yes, yes, yes! Im so happy 2 see a vlog from you guys!! I hope everyones doing well... Hopefully we'll see you over the summer more..
I’m in LOVE with Steam Locomotives ESPECIALLY the BR, GWR, LMS, GNR, Caledonian, LNER, GER, LSWR, etc. I’m so glad you guys had fun!😊😁
This was a good video and I liked all the trains you and your sons got to see. I’m surprised how big the trains are!
I’m glad your family had a good time and hopefully soon all of your family will get to explore more together with your wife as well.
Praying for you, your family and all those this coming summer (and winter in the south of the world). Family time is a blessing and special therapy I believe. 😊
Awesome video. I have form of autism and enjoy trains and rail fanning. Thank you so much for sharing this, you had some real good points too. Great content as always. Thanks again for what you do for our autism community.
I’m glad you uploaded this. I’m autistic too. And I’m in my 30s. And still love trains a lot to this day. ❤️🚂
Awesome share
Your relationship with your child is the most important thing. They're still a child a person imagine no breaks from school when you were a kid don't expect it from your autistic child that also has higher burnout
Going outside for a walk or just being outside on the playground helps my son after a meltdown, today just happened to be one of those days. He is 9 and Autistic as well. My husband is autistic too and getting out and about helps with his meltdowns too. Loved this video! So glad you guys are posting again!
Looks like a fun day for all of you! Reminds me of the sensory-seeking video at the mall you made (think it was at Christmas time) where you just let the boys see new things, smell things and even taste things. Such days where we can just be ourselves, go outside and get fresh input are super important and are in itself a kind of therapy. It does us no good to be shielded from everything, stuck at home or in therapy offices. As an autistic adult, I find myself having to explain this a lot, even though we can get overstimulated easily, understimulation can be just as bad. We still want to experience and see things like everyone else and get away from the day-to-day for a while. It's great to see you're trying to give your kids that when you get the chance!
I'm also autistic and love trains, space, and 1/64th scale cars such as Hot Wheels and Matchbox! A therapy for me is riding at the skatepark (scooter)!
I was born a century too late too 😂 People tell me this all the time. I love all the old things! I love the nostalgia . I was born in 88’ and the 50’s thru 90’s were great!!! I also would have been okay with being around in the 50’s and 60’s ! Those looked like some really cool times as well as a century ago as well 😅
I love this! My type of therapy other than being with my therapist is like either riding in the car with the window down and the wind, listening to some epic music feeling like I’m in a movie, or also acting. So, yea I love being in a fantasy as a therapy!
Alistair looked like he enjoyed that the most. I would struggle with the loudness of the running of the locomotive and the whistle, they would definitely hurt my ears, even on a good day. I can't stand the smell of a steam train either (my father hates it when I say I prefer the smell of a diesel locomotive!).
My grandson and I also love trains
I think your kids will love it if you take them to the Colorado Railroad museum
Thanks for the suggestion
Your train ride looks amazing, and so fun!
I've always been of the belief that anything that brings you happiness is Therapy. Personally for me, Music production, Mechanical watches and Steam trains are my thing haha. I was born in the Wrong Century and in the Wrong Country lol, there's something about rattling through the old west on a locomotive that's so alluring lol.
I hear that! 😉👍
I have autism since I was little kid i have a night lights and a fan that's me sleep. And my phone helps me sleep with youtube videos. I will always Support. Autism kid's because i have autism.
I so agree with you so much❤
Alistair's hair looks cute when it's longer. They all have really pretty hair. I wish you'd let them grow it out.
omg boys have grown up so much, what a handsome young men
Awesome vlog , I can definitely see Ian becoming a train conductor in the future . serving you and the entire U.S.A. Tell Ian I said hello, thank you
The videography was very well done. Thanks for sharing.
I love trains and I have autism. Trains have been so fascinating since I was a toddler. I'm 31 years old and I still love them.
I love train rides as well to. last year when we took my Nephew to Australia we were riding in a train from New mexico to LA and it was a fun time. I like how on trains your could move around and enjoy different things. I think the hard thing for me is someimtes riding in airplanes.
I dont think its overlooked by all of us in the ASD community, its more or less that society makes it way more difficult for us to relax or enjoy anything financially or have anything due to poor societal treatment of us adult or child. I have way more issues with my ASD and CP now than at any point in my life due to mostly societal and financial reasons. Eg: I love my bucket garden, but others wont leave me or the buckets alone, they get stolen, destroyed etc by others. My bucket garden is deemed medical need kind of like a service animal. It makes it hard to do anything, manage, enjoy anything or even go outside and gets demeaning. My health has drastically went down hill due to these things. BTW, autism and trains, LOVE IT. Love trains alot.
Thanks for sharing 👍
I'm on the spectrum and being involved with a volunteer fire department as a kid was so beyond helpful. Riding the trucks, pulling hoses and fighting fire-nothing better.
I’m glad therapy is also getting out and doing what you love as well. As an autistic person, I get very bored and anxious at the waiting room at a doctor’s or dentist office. I love getting out of my house doing all kinds of things train related. I also love shopping, dining, zoos, aquariums, vacations on a cruise ship and of course Disney World. Thankfully I live in Florida. However I grew up in Massachusetts. On the train subject, when it comes to heritage railroads, even to this day, I’m tired of them being pulled by diesel. I prefer steam engines. But I have gotten fond of modern freight and passenger diesel’s like the ones on CSX, NS, and FEC here in Jacksonville FL. As well as Amtrak. I also do have a fondness for animals as well. Pet dogs and cats. Even wild animals. At the zoo I like elephants, giraffes, and from Asia, tigers. As for sea creatures, I’m fond of very tropical fish, coral reefs, and definitely dolphins.
Nice. Well I have autism and I have been doing my own channel for nearly 7 years.
Yes at times it can be noisy over here in the UK and sometimes train horns can be very powerful
Regarding Train Therapy with Autism some good points which in my case it helps when I go travelling on the train even at times the journey doesn't always go smoothly.
Ngl I love train rides and love trains. I love going train spotting to railroad crossings!
Trains 🚂!!!!! I lo❤ve them.
I keep saying "*everything is therapy*" 😀🎻⛱️🏝️🎈❤️👍🎀🌹
I have autism myself, and I don’t really use trains as a therapy for me, but I do like trains after all due to my dad working on the rails plus I watched a little bit of Thomas & Friends back in the day lol nowadays I just watch video essays of different types of trains like the GP-38s old railroad companies like Penn Central that don’t exist anymore my focus now is more on severe weather, but I do occasionally like to look back and see what’s happening now and the future for the railroad industry
❤️ from Germany
My son is 2 and has autism, his is severe and he doesn't sleep at night at all, no matter what we do. We stay on a strict schedule, I was wondering if you had any advice? You're doing such a great job!
I couldn't agree more. Thanks for sharing.
I loved your guys trip the train ride looks like lots of fun maybe I should give it a try! Also I agree with what you said about Autistic Therapy because our therapy can be our special interests or just having fun doing things we love to do! I love going to Water Parks even though I can’t swim I love playing with the water it makes me happy Stim a lot! And it’s true when some specialists try to normalize Autistic people even giving them Medication it happened to me when I was younger because people mistook my Sensory Overloads for bratty tantrums and my dad thought that giving me Medication would cure my Autism but luckily my mom told him not to give it to me anymore and I’ve been better without it! You should be able to be Autistic and Stim without people judging or making fun of you about it but people do it to me all the time and it hurts my feelings a lot but people just tell me to stop being sensitive but ig even though I’m constantly bullied I should just be able to ignore it like everyone else. I really wished I had understanding parents like you guys it’s amazing how much you care and know about your kids your easily the best family on TH-cam keep up the great work! ❤
Thank you. Water is awesome for sensory, I agree!
@@AutismFamilyChannel OMG IM SO HAPPY YOU RESPONDED 😆 I’m glad you agree with water being good for Sensory I thought I was the only one
This is my type of therapy. Always had been and always will be. I have HFA and trains are my hobby for life lol. But yeah it's a great deal to go ride on trains whenever you can
I recognize number 93 of this railroad so I watch coaster most of the time but I know configuration for 93 I might know a lot of you guys asked: “Meena what is 93 is wheel configuration?” to answer that number 93 is a 2-8-0 consolidation no training wheels
One of the scenes in the care bears nutcracker television movie was a scene of the care bears riding a vintage style train.
I hate that allistic people try to make us more like them. 35 years of (generally well intentioned) people forcing me to fit in (or else) has been traumatising.
Be your wonderful autistic selves. If an aspect of your autism is causing you trouble, find a way around it. Help your autistic friends and family to find ways of doing things that work for them. Teach your kids self advocacy, self compassion and self understanding.
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Robin your Kids are beautyful. Ian is my best Feind i live in my world together with ian every Day❤❤❤
Sorry Ich kann nicht gut englisch i Hope Ian understand me
Some sounds are loud to me at home and all my mom says is stop doing that your not in elementary school . Just because im 17 1/2 age doesnt define if i have a higher chancs of being diagnosed with ASD which my symptoms have been showing mainly in the social interaction area my entire life up to now .
Music and Gaming are my type of therapy
Iam Tamara Hadler from Barmstedt germany! Ilove the Autism Family ❤❤❤😮 Ian is a beautyful Child je is soo Sweet besause he is to Young for me. Gretihngs to Ian from Tamara from Germany, Ilove Ian Owen❤❤❤❤
I have asbergers I still call it that i love trains but more diesel and electric power and I love train horns I don’t mind loud noises when I was a kid I hated them really enjoyed the video
This looks so awesome. I would love to go here someday. I really want to get ABA therapy as mental health therapist suggested. Why does mental health keep discharging me? Can mental health help with autism? I understand when on routine and have a consistent environment i don't have behavioral issues or emotional issues. But I get speech therapy and occupational therapy and physical therapy. Physical therapy for my back.
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This is a very interesting channel and the comment section is surprisingly interesting. Do you think there has been an active reluctance to diagnose and talk about autism ADHD and dyslexia possibly due to its cause? Your wife seems very intelligent and beautiful. But I feel like all this is taking a lot out of her. I'm just curious. Do you continue to work on your diet? I've been surfing the web for the last twenty-four years and have been working on my diet for the last eighteen. Did you know that humans are basically carnivores? We don't need to eat plants and are much happier and healthier when we don't.
Therapy for me is just snuggles with my turkey
How is Ian and Connor doing in high school
Very well. They are excited for summer though
Question: Do you still have Ian on risperidone? Why/why not? My son goes nuts when he misses more than one dose, seems like he might be on this for long term… also how did Ian not gain weight?
He’s on abilify now
@AutismFamilyChannel Oh, Jesus, no. Humans are carnivores. We don't need to eat plants and are much happier and healthier when we don't. Please, please, please take the 90-day beef, butter, bacon, and egg challenge. 1:05
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alister often tonght that's his stim?
Yes his hand stim
Trains make me stim
You guys should get a dog having a furry friend could help you kids
We’d love to, but our condo is too small to keep a dog here and we are just trying to make ends meet.
Why call it therapy? Its not like aba etc. it does not have standards to hold up or antything. You can make the rules instead off set rules...
Same way as learning about trains does not make it school or a course about trains...
When fraising it this way everything could be called therapy.
It's important to do those things for sure. I guess i just don't understand why you call it therapy when in my eyes it's clearly not.
Love how you all enjoyed it even if it had the downside off loud train noises. The rest made up for a good time.
Sure and it was more of a question, a hypothesis. It also depends on which definition you go by. From Cambridge: “a treatment that helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after an illness:” I’m not married to it being “therapy” but I wonder if it can be just like horse therapy for autistic people, etc.
@@AutismFamilyChannel When you explain it like this it makes more sense. Thank you.
I guess I don´t like turning everything into `therapy` . (don't see a need for it. i guess i see it as just the things in live that everybody does or should do to make them feel better.
If its trains, cars, painting or whatever suites that person)
I’m glad you uploaded this. I’m autistic too. And I’m in my 30s. And still love trains a lot to this day. ❤️🚂