My worstest fear with my 7 year old autistic, nonverbal son. Thank GOD he was found, safe & sound🙏🏼💙🙏🏼

Poor baby ! He must have been terrified ! I'm so glad he is ok .

Poor baby, thank God he met this amazing lady and you found him 🙏

Poor little guy. No fun being separated from family and being terrified. ❤

We had our son on a monkey tail leash hooked to a monkey backpack. It was definitely a life saver as he was a runner.

Very glad he is OK! Maybe you could do a little PSA on how best to help a lost kid who has autism? I think there are good members of the public who would maybe help, but might be afraid of making the situation worse.

That is good to keep him safe how is Connor and ian

Very glad you found him 😊

I feel sorry for Alister, him been sad right now is going to make me tear up, because I don’t like seeing a child crying. I get a certain feeling of sadness inside me when ever I see any child sad or crying. I hope he’s okay right now after that situation that occurred with him been lost.😢😢😢

I remember when I was separated from my family at a large shopping mall back when I was in between Alistair's and Connors age. I was found and reunited with my family by mall security. Being separated from my family at a large shopping mall was a scary experience that I went through as a kid, I am glad that Alistair.

That fella was so nice to give him the Crystal. 🥰 One of my greatest fears, is one of my boys taking off. Before I had my own autistic children, I knew nothing about autism (now I'm like a walking billboard educating as many people as I can) and I used to be judgy of the "leashes" I take back everything I ever thought. I am now too, thinking of getting one for my 4 year old.

"Sometimes kids run." Precisely! And many times those kids are faster and more durable than their parents. So a lead/leash is absolutely necessary for safety when in a outdoor situation. Thank you for bringing that up.

Alistair you have a big fan base out here looking at these videos you share with us.. my daughter also ASD, is around your age and I learn so much from you guys.. stay strong bud.

Also, b.c I have no one else to tell. I'd like to share something with everyone!! I'm a proud momma, this last week my non verbal 4 1/2 year old has been saying actual words! Not without us prompting but still! 🥺🥰 Just knowing he has the capability of speaking is so emotional for me!! Like kitty cat, apple, bye bye, I mean the words are just coming back to back. My son was diagnosed with a low to middle form of autism, when he was around 18months. They wanted to wait till he was 2, but it was pretty obvious. Thanks for reading. Any advice I could give is, label your hearts out (if you are a caregiver) no matter what it is you are doing, eating,showing, talk and tell them, walking up the stairs, brushing teeth, pointing and telling them all the pictures in a book. It's what I believe helped my baby.

That's very sad and terryfying for every child and every parent.

I'm so glad he's okay.

Thank god he returned safe and sound. Take care!💙

I have done the river walk several times That river is running fast. So dangerous! How calm you two are!

So glad he is safe! It seems like he had a really tough time when school is out, I noticed he was stimming a lot in the last video.

I'm glad that he's safe, god bless you and your family

Oh my heart dropped when you posted the title , I was in tears. I’m so happy his journey lost was short he must be so upset . I have those same worries with Thomas you have to be so alert at every move. We love ❤ you Allister.

This happens regardless of autism or not. It's very scary & I hate 2 see anyone have deal with this kinda stuff.. Glad he's safe & sound with his fam now.. Allister buddy, u gotta slow your roll a bit dude & stick with your fam always!!

Not a fun experience at all. Glad Rob and Britany found Alistair and this nice lady was a miracle worker. Alistair must of been terrified yet he was very calm and brave and handled like a champion during a rough situation. Way 2 go Alistair!!!! 🎉👏👍 and proud of you. This happened to me a bunch when I was Alistair’s age and went to county fairs with my family. (Crowded!) *Family decided on a meeting spot if my siblings or I got lost. (1 of 5 siblings, middle adult child)

Love that Hike!!! Alistair, the escape artist. :) Yeah, we are the leash family. :)

So awesome that he found help. Allister you did the right thing and got back to your family quickly

So glad he was found safe and sound! Mom and Dad you did an AMAZING JOB. holding it together and remaining calm and keeping the rest of the group together!!

My poor baby! All of you must have been so scared! Glad everything is okay. And good advice for lost kids too. ❤❤❤

Glad Alister is ok. Must of been rough. Nice to see kind acts from strangers.

That must have been terrifying for you all. I'm glad someone helped you to find Alistair again 🥰

Glad he's okay. I love Connor's hat!

It's terrifying being alone and lost in the woods at any age, especially as a child. I'm glad it worked out well for you and yours.

Poor Alistair I’m glad he’s okay now

My heart literally sank. The fact that all of us parents can feel what you did says volumes. I am so glad you were able to get to him safely. This is a crucial reminder of the dangers we, as parents, face with our kids who elope or potentially will. Being a parent of an autistic child has changed my opinions of leashes and other such devices. I now look at leashes and other such devices as a safeguard and I just make the assumption that their child is a runner. I leave it at that and don't pass judgement any more. Thank you!

Thank God he's ok! Your hearts must have been beating out of your chest! This is one of the reasons we don't take the kids anywhere - they can outrun us and the streets are very busy. My grandson's class (the wrong one for him, they admitted) takes his class to the zoo every Thursday. We keep him home because they wanted us to sign a slip saying if anything happens, it's not their fault. Keeping him home is better than going to jail. I truly envy some of the things you do with your boys - you are marvelous parents :)

I also got lost at about 7-9 years of age. I thought I could backtrack to my aunts house but all the streets looked the same and I’d never been taught to stay put if I got lost.

Praise God he's ok! This is fear for many of us.Thanks for mentioning not to judge when we have to do what's best to prevent things from happening, to keep our kids safe. Your channel is a blessing!

Poor little thing, that's so scary for a kid... glad he's okay!

This must have been scary for everyone, especially Alister. I'm glad you are all safe

It's great that she managed to find him 💙💙💙

that's break my heart ... gald u find him... give him lot of love and hug ...

Thank God you found him safe and sound is so scary!I am very afraid my son may do to like this especially he is nonverbal will be more worst he ran from my hand and sometimes is in his world and doesn't obey me...or doesn't want to enter new places and cries but I have to enter is necessary sometimes for him or for me to solve some matters.

It is hard when you think you know but get tangled in an unfamiliar location, I did that once but found my way out, I then worked my neighbourhood explorations in with mental mapping while going to parks then involved studying the maps of where we were going either for day hikes or multi-day camping trips. Another thing my mother did was (I was youngest of four boys) to outfit us in matching t-shirts when we went on vacation.

Poor guy :( Glad he is alright!

You guys did it right. A good training Stay in one place. Also lots of reassurance an d hugs.

I’m so sorry that you got lost

I’m so glad you found him and he was ok ❤❤ 🙏🏻

Aww this is my worst fear with my son. I thank God he wasn't hurt! ❤❤

Thanks for this video

I am so sorry. So glad he is ok. 💗💗💗💗💗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I felt so relieved when I saw the video that he is found, I have 7yr old autistic nonverbal sunshine, Im so terified from him being lost in any way 😮❤❤❤. So happy you found him!

Thank God he's ok!!💗🙏

When I was 5, I got lost on a beach for an hour. It was really scary because there are a lot of people and I don’t ask anyone for help (I am also autistic, but verbal). I ended up at a restaurant like 2KM away from where I ran off and the owner and concerned customers asked me what my mother’s phone number was and I recited to them (I am still surprised that at that time I can remember at that age!). They called my mother and 15mns later my mother and grandmother came to retrieve me. They honestly thought that I got abducted but I just ran away. It was very scary for me too and I was super scared

My newly diagnosed asd grandson takes off. It’s so scary. I’m so glad you all are ok. This happens with neurotypical kids all the time. No judgement allowed.

If I lost my child, autistic or not, I would be inconsolable, distraught, thank god he didn't actually get to the river & fall in, glad he's ok!

I'm happy he is okay. Also Utah looks like a very beautiful place. I live in Pittsburgh, PA. But used to live in Long Island, NY

Thank God He IS save 🌹🎈

im glad he is safe

I’m glad that Allistair is safe! My family is from the US and we are living in Costa Rica for a month. The other day my family was on a hike and I started having like a meltdown from like all the sounds in the jungle where we were crying and my mom taught me this trick that I happened to find really helpful. What you do is you cross your arms over your chest and you tap your arms. You want to try to have your hands touch your arms at the same time. The reason this helps is because it helps like run the executive function like in your brain. I guess it like give you something to focus on. Just something I found helpful for me.

I'm glad he's safe. Did you ever figured out what scared him enough to make him run? Or was he hyper focused on something? Hugs to all💕

Please read my comment if you baby is autistic 🙏🏻. My son turned 3years on june 19th. On june 9 doctor tell us he has autism as he can’t speak and don’t even react to his own name and always running around and climbing on and doctors tell us he has to go through the therapy for upto three years to 18 years of age. I gave my son a Himalaya medicine named MENTAT and in two months he can speak ABC and one to ten and understand everything. Now He tells what he want to eat and what colour straw he wants to drink. He have 10 picture books and he can tell everything in books. I’m trying my best to explain him everything so he can speak sentences when he go to the doctor for his next appointment on October 10. I tell everyone about that because i want every kid healthy and every parent happy and stress free😊. Also this medicine has no side effect. I started giving him 2nd bottle two days ago after one and half months of first bottle as i can’t find it in canada and i had to order it online from india. May Waheguru ji(God) Bless Everyone 🙏🏻😇

Glad hes ok

That is terrifying! Glad he's okay, but still really scary. Have you considered the harness you used with Ian with maybe a retractable leash? I know that probably sounds awful but at least it'd give him some slack to wander without getting too far away. Just a thought. Especially because he's going to be able to run faster as he gets older. Let's hope he grows out of eloping.

Glad you found him being lost can be scary especially if you don’t a phone or watch with service abilities to let them know.

Omg 😲😲😲😲 god bless you guys poor alister wow i feel so bad

I’m autistic and when I was Alistair’s age I got lost when we went on a trip to Mexico. We went there to visit Another family we were friends with. I remember that we were swimming outside and then we went for lunch and I remember that one moment the 2 families were with me and then I looked away and they were gone. I knew we were going to a restaurant so I walked into the nearest restaurant. I walked around the whole restaurant looking for my family until my mom found me and said “You scared me” and we walked to see my dad and the other family. (My older brother with severe autism was at home since we felt it was too risky to take him so he was looked after by another family we were close to for part of the time and by some therapists we had in preschool for the other half of the time) Anyways they seemed really upset so I was upset at myself for accidentally abandoning them. But then we had lunch at another restaurant.

Im glad Alistairs ok. I like watching these videos because i just like knowing that no matter what you havewho you are and how you react/respond to things you are a amazing unique person. A unique person that might react difrently act differently but is still a person who just wants to be respected and deserves to beable to be themselves. And idk why but i always get figety and sweaty when watching these sometimes foing some of the stims but forsing my self to stop because i dont want to be rude or make my self need to although i feel the need i still try not to idk why though

We lost our son at a pumpkin patch once and found him standing next to our car. He said mom, I saw the car and went right to it

o! My son would love a rock like this! He's got a small but growing collection of minerals.

My 5 year old son does this. He all of a sudden dashes off when we take him to the zoo for example, and we have to chase him. I think it's called an Eloper in the autism community. He's super high functioning, however he runs off on us sometimes. Not all the time, but it's scary when he does.

That was my greatest fear when i was younger i hated thunder lighting and things like that. Once i was walking around getting a book because my mom let me when i was younger i walked with another adult but my mom called me.

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My big bro is married on Saturday im so glad my big bro is now in his honeymoon wow

I hope Alastair is ok

Unsolicited advice about driving as an autistic person. You gotta teach your boys to not honk at people when they get that age. I don't do it often but often when I do it's a bad idea. When I see people driving crazy on interstate I honked and got attacked almost. He was chasing me very fast after ambushung me from the exit lane. I care about safety and maintaining my safe distance from the action. I am learning to keep my honking off.

glad he is okay is everything okay and to the father are you okay is there anything we can do?

Can you do a video about the early signs of conors " light autism" did he develop just like any other child or was there any signs before 2 years of age ?

Poor Alistar! We had as children when we made holidays abroad a waterproof bracelet with name, address and phone number in case we get lost. Maybe a bracelet like this would be good, with the phone number the name and possibly the child has autism on it. Best wishes Jasmin

Rob, I am so glad that you were able to find Alistair. By the way there are a couple of different autism care bears that were created by two different artists. Is it okay if I have your email address, because I would like to send those two different pictures of a neurodiverse care bear to you.

Gald he is safe

I was tested for Asd 2 times but now I’m 11 I have special needs I have dyslexia to

Uuu I hot lost when I was 6 years old. I was with my mom and my sister in town, and we were in a post office, and I wanted to se some toys in a store, and my mother whent into the post office and I started to look for them but they left or I didn't see them but I found my ehay back to the car and my mother ceim crying after a few minuts she whas about too call the police. That was so scary 😨.

How old is Alistair now

Awwwww😞 Does he know your phone numbers in case he needs to tell people

Put him in his brother red harness as its safer than not

This is maybe a crazy idea and I dont mean to offend anyone but, i sometimes thing ASD is part of the evolutionary process.

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Rethink your click bait title please. Add "Temporary" Lost, otherwise it's misleading. Can't take your stuff serious unless you stay true to the cause......

Maybe discipline him instead of coddling him. He’s gonna have to grow up eventually

Praise the Lord he's ok.

Glad Alister is ok

I’m glad that Allistair is safe! My family is from the US and we are living in Costa Rica for a month. The other day my family was on a hike and I started having like a meltdown from like all the sounds in the jungle where we were crying and my mom taught me this trick that I happened to find really helpful. What you do is you cross your arms over your chest and you tap your arms. You want to try to have your hands touch your arms at the same time. The reason this helps is because it helps like run the executive function like in your brain. I guess it like give you something to focus on. Just something I found helpful for me.