The funny farm

I had a work shop last week and the speaker had a hilarious story that I just have to share!

At the special school where he works there is a boy with Autism that communicates through singing. He has a song for everything--"wheels on the bus" when he gets on the bus, a color song he sings at stoplights, a flower song he sings when he passes a garden, etc. One day they went on a field trip to ride horses. The adult with him got a little side tracked with another student and when they looked up the boy that sings had gotten on one of the horses backwards and the horse started to trot away. So they got the horse and got the boy down and were trying to see if he was ok. The boys eyes were as big as plates and he was SILENT. This really freaked out the adults because the boy is never silent. So they decide to take him back to the bus to get him away from the horses to see if he would be ok. They get to the bus and he doesn't make a sound. A couple of them try to sing "wheels on the bus" but nothing. They get nervous that he is about to have a major meltdown and decide to take him back to school. The entire way they are trying to sing all of his favorite songs and he is just sitting there silent. The adults decide they had better call the school and have them ready to receive them when they arrive because they can't imagine what is going to happen when he gets out of this "shock". After 30 minutes of silence they decide they had better call and get the mom their too because the adults are about to panic with worry that he has been silent so long. So the bus arrives and everyone is tense. The doors open and mom comes on trying to be cheery and says, "Hi son, what happened to you today?" Everyone watches with great anticipation as the little boy finally looks at his mom and starts to sing "I've been through the desert on a horse with no name"

Poor kid, just couldn't think of an appropriate song! :)