Spent half a day at Wild Wild Wet yesterday. It was a request by the birthday girl...in fact our last trip to WWW was also her birthday last year.
The kids had fun of course but Aqil had the greatest time. Why? Hehe...well, Ariq wanted to try rides but didn't wanna queue for it. And Arisya...she don't really like rides, in fact she's scared...so scared that USS was out of interest for her. And these two feel that the lower slides are too 'kiddy' for them.
Well...ask Arisya why she wanna go WWW in the first place! Gggrrr!
A few hours there, we decided to stop for some snacks. Aqil didn't wanna stop! We had to make him come out of pool. He refused much but when we walked away...he started wailing & ran after us reluctantly. So we had to coerce him...we told him that we'd just need to buy something quickly before we could go back to the pool.
The wailing stopped but he was on a repeat mode telling us to be quick! Gggrrr!
Told ya he was having a blast!
Hence after getting some snacks....we headed back to the pool. We sat by the poolside while having the snacks. Aqil ran back to the pool...going down one slide after another.
We sat by the poolside...having our snacks...while keeping an eye on Aqil.
Moments later...we saw Aqil being held by his right hand by a man. Nope...the man wasn't holding Aqil's hand...rather he was holding Aqil's right arm...if you can imagine that.
Well....we were shocked of course! We knew Aqil wasn't injured or anything coz he was still looking towards the slides as he was being held by the arm.
The husbern got up and went towards them....I didn't rush. I had a bad feeling...I didn't like the way that man held Aqil by the arm.
I could hear bits and pieces of what that man said to the husbern. I held Aqil while the husbern talked to the man. I heard the husbern apologised to the man before the man finally walked away.
I asked the husbern what did the man said...I could feel anger in his voice.
As the husbern was explaining to me, I was holding on to Aqil while my eyes followed the man as he walked away. He had walked towards his wife & children...he said something to his wife, his wife looked over at us and they walked away with their kids.
Haha! That's me...with my killer eyes especially when it comes to my children!
Apparently...he wasn't happy that Aqil pushed his way through while playing the slides....and that happened to his children. Not that Aqil pushed his children but rather Aqil somewhat jumped the queue and pushed his way through to get on the slide.
And the husbern apologised for that. Well...its only right that we apologised coz what Aqil did was wrong and may even be unacceptable for some people.
But the husbern too told the man abt Aqil's condition...before he finally walked away.
All the while...we have always watched out for Aqil. Even when taking the elevators...we had to hold his hands to make sure that he don't touch any other people.
And while at WWW yesterday...we did notice him ignorantly going up & down the slides oblivious of the others around him. But never once did he push anyone...if someone was already seated to slide down, he waited for his turn. However, if someone was heading towards the slide, no matter how close) he'd just slumberly moved past that person and got on the slide.
When the husbern told him abt Aqil's condition, that man remarked why didn't us the parents be with him while he was playing. Well, the husbern didn't say anything more & just apologised again.
We'd never go up the slides with Aqil...all the while Ariq was the one accompanying him. Well, Ariq was having a break then of course but we kept our eyes on Aqil. We did notice that Aqil did cut queues...but he wasn't the only child who did that. We'd seen other kids cutting Aqil's queue too...and well, they are just kids!
And...there were so many other children...so many other parents...that man had to be the only one who was angry with Aqil?
Oh...and the way he held Aqil by the arm...we were really pissed off with that. For goodness sake, he was only a boy & what was the man thinking? What would he feel if someone held one of his kids by the arm?
It was a theme park! Kids lose their minds when playing...what more a child with autism who's oblivious of his surroundings 24/7!
We talked to Aqil & reminded him not to play rough...before he ran back to the slides which he enjoyed so much.
We didn't leave immediately...the kids continued with their waterplay. However, we didn't see that man & his family anymore until we left...
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