One of the earliest things often noticed about autistic children is their tendency to hold toys up very close to their face, turn them all around to examine all sides, or look at them from different angles or out of their corner of their eyes. They pay attention to the details. They might play with something in a totally different way than the toy maker may have intended, like holding a toy car upside down and spinning the wheels. When Abby’s grandpa built this ball drop out of magna-tiles with

Our son is autistic and struggles... - Love Hope & Autism

The emotional triggers that make you want to explode, implode, fall apart, write off all of humanity, or flip out are not there to torture you. They are there to teach you. Yeah friend, believe it or not, those triggers hold valuable information. When you’re emotionally triggered, it means that a sore spot, a vulnerable spot, and unhealed spot has been hit. So instead of losing your mind (been there done that) or potentially harming someone else in your reaction to it, it’s calling you to take a