Managing Autism - A Personal View

Jack is 6 today!!!

Being extremely excited (and of course methodical and consistent in life), Jack has been counting down the days (each morning and evening) for the last 3 weeks.

And as normally happens on ’significant’ days, the first meltdown occured very early on in the day when the idea of it being his birthday all just seemed too overwhelming.

Jack loves people to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to him, but then it becomes too much for him and he head butts and flaps his arms around (and jerks his face and makes loud noises) whilst the song is in progress.  We haven’t worked out if it’s a happy reaction or if the reason he does it is because he is not able to cope well with the attention on him.

We’re trying to keep most of the day fairly quiet for him.  We have an outing planned later on in the afternoon - swimming followed by fish and chips for dinner (Jack’s favourite).  Jack has invited a friend to join us, but we have steered clear of a birthday party as such (we have enough trouble coping with going to other kids’ birthday parties without having to try and deal with our own!!!).

So another year has passed, and our beautiful boy is a little more grown up.

Happy Birthday, Jack!

We all love you lots.

xxxxxx

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