Dawning phoenix

For Autism Acceptance Month, I covered this topic in this comic to help explain this disconnect! YouTube | TikTok | Instagram | Twitter

One thing that drives me nuts is when parents make autism seem like a bigger deal than it is. My bf of almost 8 years has autism and though he would never use it as an excuse I think he believes he is incapable of certain things because of how his mom always “protected” him from things he found difficult. He is very high functioning to. The way I like to describe his autism is you wouldn’t know if you weren’t told but being told does explain a few things. But for example he is 22 and doesn’t know how to make his own appointment because he doesn’t know how to talk on the phone. He wouldn’t even call his own uncle for job advice and went through his dad instead. And it is all because his mom never let him figure things out for himself.