“The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.”
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If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
