Managing Autism - A Personal View

Christmas and the holiday season is fast approaching, and with it comes parties, get togethers, and then even more parties!  Although Jack loves the idea of being very social, when it comes to being in an environment with lots of other people, and noise and excitement, he just doesn’t cope well (in fact, one on one social time is probably the best for him - assuming he’s in the right frame of mind!).  So with Christmas ‘on the horizon’, we are busy preparing ourselves with some strategies and tactics to get us through the crazy social time.

This year we have made the decision to re-structure our holiday social gatherings.  In the past (before the diagnosis) we struggled through parties and social occasions, fighting an uphill battle.  Only now do we realise that in the past we were simply setting Jack up for failure.  We were pushing him beyond his boundaries, and expecting too much of him (in terms of coping with the social frenzy).  This year will be a little more low key, with better planning and more structure to our outings and visits.  Fingers crossed all goes well!

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