When your mummy and daddy first saw In the Night Garden, we simply didn't get it. For the uninitiated, In the Night Garden is from the same makers of Teletubbies. The premise revolves around a child who is falling to sleep and as they slip into sleep, all kinds of mad shit starts happening. There is a Ninky-Nonk and a Pinky-Ponk and there is Iggle-Piggle and Oopsie-Daisy. You can see why we didn't really get it, can't you.
Then we utterly changed our minds. Now, we love that flippin' show. It is brilliant. We love it almost as much as you (that is to say we love it as much as you love it; not that we love it almost as much as we love you.)
Your daddy's and mummy's favourite character is Makka Pakka. He lives underground with a stone in his bed; he walks round a three-wheeled trike and he washes everything he sees with a sponge and bar of soap; and blows a horn. He is definitely representative of someone quite far across the autistic spectrum. He looks like this:
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