When Autistic adults talk about accepting and understanding Autistic children and Autistic behaviors, parents get pretty stressed… So there are just no boundaries? So we let our Autistic child dictate everything? So we let our Autistic child walk all over us? But friends, that isn’t actually what Autistics are encouraging you to do. No one […]
If you’ve been around my corner of the interwebs for a while, you know that I’m loudly against ABA therapy for Autistic children. I’ve written about the problem with ABA here. And why even “new ABA” is bad here. So recently when I saw this question about Calm the Chaos and ABA pop up over […]
“I just want my Autistic child to be as independent as they can be” Sound familiar? When working with my coaching clients, boosting their Autistic child’s independence is almost always one of their primary goals. And for good reason… Who doesn’t want to help their child be more independent? Who wouldn’t want to empower their […]
Whispers. Stares. Eye rolls. We’ve all been there… Aisle four of Target, Autistic child having a meltdown, strangers staring and making not-so-quiet assessments of your parenting or saying something about “kids in their day”. You are just trying to help your child through their hard time, and it would be so much easier without the […]
I just want to raise my autistic child to be happy, to be confident, to be independent to advocate for themselves. That’s all I want. I don’t care if my autistic child is a doctor. I don’t care if they go to a good school. I don’t care what they do in their future. What […]
What is autism? And what is just behavior? How do I know where the line is between accepting my autistic child as they are, while not letting them do whatever they want just because they’re autistic? Where exactly is the line between the behavior that kids do—because spoiler alert kids misbehave—and the behavior that’s directly […]
