Thursday 26 April 2012

Who Says Autistic Kids Have No Imagination?

So, I'm just about to arrange a little vase of freesias in our spare room/study ahead of my friend's visit tomorrow, when I realise that the windowsill has been set up by Bobby, who is quietly filming it with his Nintendo 3DS.

For a moment, I have no idea what's going on, but that's not unusual.

Having located the Telly Ads website yesterday, Bobby has been laughing his head off at the Guzzle Puzzle advert. Guzzle Puzzles are fruit gums that slot together to form different flavour combinations. It's actually the sort of thing they'd dream up during The Apprentice and that Sir Alan would say was a load of crap.

Anyway, the advert he likes is when two Guzzle Puzzles call the Guzzle Puzzle helpline to get some help about how to form the Cola flavour.

As I type this, I'm being interrupted by Bobby who has a packet of real Guzzle Puzzles and is showing me how to form Cola flavour...

Anyway, Bobby, like a lot of autistic kids, is a big fan of adverts (see forthcoming issue of AuKids for the full run-down on this...) Adverts are not boring like one and a half hour films (which are interrupted at five minute intervals with 'how many minutes to go?') Adverts are often funny and clever and can easily be remembered off by heart.

This Guzzle Puzzle advert is particularly rib-tickling, according to Bobby. So much so that he's re-enacting it on the windowsill with three Guzzle Puzzles and our telephone. He's filming the entire scenario and he has the Telly Ads sound going in the background to make the soundtrack. He's done this before with the PG Tips advert and the advert for the National Accident Helpline, so you can see that his interests aren't restricted to food.

In fact, he won't even eat these Guzzle Puzzles, that'll be down to me and Alec (ahem). Alec got through his own packet in five seconds flat. I did show him how to make different flavour combinations but he pointed out - wordlessly but clearly - that the best flavour combination of all was when you shove the entire packet in your mouth at once and then chew.

Anyway, back to getting ready for that visit...I can hear Bobby in his bedroom at the mo. He's saying 'Banana and Banana make Even More Banana flavour.'

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