Devoted Royal Scientist

Wear your mask and keep your distance.

I wanted to make these so bad!

we have to go to the grocery store. i know that you don’t like it there because [anything they have said before about why it makes them upset] and i don’t either, but we have to do it. we are leaving at x time, so you have until then to [transition from what they were doing before]. when we are there, you need to walk next to me/hold my hand/(maybe give them a task such as counting how many types of fruit they can see in the store, a small activity to do, or a stim toy. keeping them grounded and entertained is good). it will take y amount of time, and then it will be over and we can come back home and you can do z [special interest related activity or other reward that will recharge their nd batteries after a draining experience]

autistic children grow up to be autistic adults. sooner or later they will have to go into a grocery store, maybe on their own, maybe every week, for their whole adult life. acclimatising them to knowing how grocery stores work from a reasonably young age, helping them learn that grocery stores are not scary, and that if they are scary they are at least endurable and that trips there don’t last forever, is going to be far more effective and helpful in the long run than simply teaching children that if they don’t like something they don’t have to do it. coping strategies are far more useful than avoidance for situations that are necessary.

1. When going into a loud, crowded, busy place, give your child headphones if they are sensitive to sound. The headphones can be connected to soothing sounds, or they can be disconnected headphones. You want to muffle the noise to allow the child to not become overwhelmed.  If it’s an issue with movement and/ or sight, you could try giving your child sunglasses. Yes, you may be indoors. Yes, you may think it looks silly. If it helps, who cares?

2. If your child likes a particular shirt, get multiples of that shirt. If they want to wear the exact same shirt everyday, let them! Get one for every day of the week. And now you don’t have to sort laundry.

1) who you cosplayed at

2) what you were doing

underwater rhymes and underwater funk

he sleeps in the sea in an underwater bunk

on the basketball court he does a nautical dunk

he’s got a little stash of underwater skunk

Undyne and her inability to pick an opponent of her own caliber

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