beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth journal

There's a thing at the Guardian today about making Christmas better for people with learning disabilities, especially autism. Christmas is all New and Improved and Different and More and Sparklier, and that's a whole list of things autistic spectrum people do not in fact consider good things. The sensory overload alone... blergh. ( Read more... )

But, some autistic spectrum people do not like unwrapping presents at all. There's a totally unknown thing in there. It could be anything. Who wants surprise random things? Not them. Chatting at the AS social group someone said about a kid who just has stacks and stacks of presents, like all the years of presents, because they never can unwrap them. What neither of us could understand was why does his family keep wrapping them in the first place! ( Read more... )

So often advice about how to interact with autistic spectrum people is 'autistic spectrum people will not have fun doing things the NT people around them are doing, so try and get them used to it'. :-p Try instead 'autistic spectrum people will not have fun doing things the NT way, so try doing things they actually like'.