Struggling to be a Responsible Role Model for Kids

Kids trigger my "little human" response which can leave me going for hours. I find that being a bit of yourself and remembering they're just our tiny future adults helps me a lot. I used to work at Build-A-Bear and I figures out that I really only had to mask around adults. Kids don't have as much jadedness so they see through masking oretty well so I stopped doing it and the smiles I got were wonderful. Parents were just glad their kid was happy.

i work with children as a teacher and have multiple mental and physically chronic illnesses as well as autism. if you have any questions feel free to message me x

I'm sorry I can't speak from first hand experience, but I do know there's a part of me that is very child-like. His name is Sanders. That's just what I call him because he sort of taken over when I was experiencing extreme distress. He used to be a little girl too, but he's just a young-minded guy/person. I do experience shared memory between me and him, so my guess is this is all made up? But I haven't needed to use my "headmates" for a couple years now. I guess I'll make a post for this later. So I always feel like I need to be on their level, or at least, understand things from their point of view. I'm not sure if that's the only way I can relate to kids, by pretending to be like them? It's a weird thing too, since I'm not wanting to do that always, it just kind of ends up happening sometimes. I guess I have a hard time showing tough love when they say "no!". However, maybe I might need to become a parent myself? It's always been something in the forefront of my mind, especially since I work in OB as an EVS technician. Basically a glorified janitor. LOL. Anyways...

when my friends and i drink i can never focus on getting drunk cause i immediately switch to mom mode and have to make sure everyone is okay so maybe try taking care of a bunch of drunk adults it's essentially the same

You can get a lot of rapport by not seeing children as some other that you need to be absolutely different around, but as less developed and vulnerable people.

As someone who also has autism and works with children for a job, I'd be happy to answer any questions or concerns you have