How do you use an Obsession?
Like most parents who have a child with ASD, I had read all the books I could find and each of them said “use their obsession” but no one explained what this meant.
“Oh Bless Him” – “Oh Bugger Off”
please, when you see him do not say “oh bless him”. The number of people who say this is unbelievable. It’s as if everyone thinks that because his eyes don’t work, his ears have stopped working too. He can hear you!
The Days After The Diagnosis
So much is written about how to get a diagnosis; what the criteria is for a diagnosis and what to do when you don’t get one but little is written about how it feels to get the diagnosis.
Lists, Bullet Journal and Autism
However, this week, we realised how much impact my love of lists has had on my son.
How being literal can bring real amusement
We ended up on the hard shoulder so I could let him look down my throat and see for himself that there was no frog down there.
4 things Animal Crossing New Leaf is helping my son with ASD to understand
My eldest son has autism. He finds the rules of social interaction challenging, to say the least. Animal Crossing is helping us hugely with social interaction, finance, responsibility, dressing, thinking about other people and shopping.
