About the kids with ASD and their attraction - about a year ago my daughters joey (young scouts) group went on a bushwalk and I took Alex and the stroller because I knew he would not walk the whole lot. I got talking with a mum whose son was diagnosed with ASD and we compared the sensory issues of our sons. Alex would have been 2.5 then and her son was about eight.

We got back to the start of the walk and her son was pushing Alex on the swing for ages and he came over to me and asked for my phone number because he wanted 'that boy' (alex) to come to his place.

It was like they connected somehow, even though there was more than five years between them. I did give his mum our number, but unfortunately never heard from her.