Advocate for Inclusion and Neurodiversity

A mother shared her story about her son's sensory issues and talent in music. I believe her experience is eye-opening for all of us and teaches us many lessons, including but not limited to: 1) Practical Strategies to Cope With Sensory - each have their own ways. For this mother, one of the ways is reducing the frequency of attending events with heavy sensory stimuli (e.g. weddings etc.), and to be prepared to have to take her son out of the venue to a quieter place when he gets overloaded. 2) Accepting your "New Kind of Normal", and even Embracing It. And Finding Your own Happiness  In this mother and son example: No birthday parties. Limited weddings. Dad and Mum not attending weddings together but separately so that one parent can take care of the child at home without the exposure to sensory overload. Doesn't sound like a so-called "typical life", yet as she say " Accept it". Two powerful words! This is her different kind of normal, in the sen...

I participated in an autism focused bowling game yesterday where participants were mostly autistic, kindly sponsored by a corporate company.  As I enjoyed the experience of going through the experience and observed what was going on, I realised bowling (like other sports) can teach us life lessons. I will, as best as I can, contextualize  these lessons to life of autistics LESSON 1: DON'T QUIT WHEN THINGS DON'T START OUT WELL Some of us who are not experienced bowlers (like myself) might find that within the first few throws, the bowling ball often goes into the gutters. It is a discouraging start . In life, like in bowling, don't quit when things don't start out well at the initial stage . There are bound to be hiccups at the start but press on, tweak your approach if necessary, get help from others, and hopefully things will get better. The bowling scores did get better as we continued to bowl and tweak our approaches in how we throw the ball We Autistics can learn ...