A BUMP and two more stories, this time about toilet-flusing -- one for each of my girls:
When my eldest was little (not sure we even knew she was autistic yet!), we took her over to her cousin's house to visit. We'd been there many times before, but on this particular day, they had some toilet bowl cleaner in there - the kind that makes the toilet water blue (and stay that way until the thing is used up).
She was terrified! "It's blue!" she would wail. It took us weeks to convince her that it was OK that the water was blue, and it took us showing her how to "turn the water green" to eventually coax her to use the toilet there again.
My youngest, to this day, LOVES to flush the toilet so that she can watch the water spin around. One day she realized that if she bent over enough, she could make her HAIR spin with the water! *faints* I cut her hair right then and there... right after I gave her a shower!