We have never been sure how much Firstborn understands his little brothers autism. We do our best to explain in child friendly language. We bring him to some of HRH's therapy sessions so that he can see what goes on. Firstborn loves to 'help' our Tutor if he is here when she is and she is great to include him when the opportunity arises.
I came across this ad, created by The National Autistic Society UK and showed it to Firstborn. There are a series of clips and they opened up lovely discussions between us. The ads are very well done and Firstborn had no difficulty understanding them and had lots of questions about HRH. There is a series of these ads and we watched all of them. They are excellent and I would highly recommend viewing them. The links are available when the clip ends.
Of course, autism is different for each person and we explained that we just can't really tell what it is like for HRH until he is able to tell us himself. Still though, it really helped and was lovely to feel like Firstborn was getting a better understanding of the difficulties that HRH deals with every day.
For now Firstborn is whispering to HRH, just in case!!
We found the book 'All Cats Have Aspergers Syndrome' by Kathy Hoopman was a fantastic tool to use with both younger children and adults to discuss Autism and how my girls think / feel. We even used it when discussing with my 7yo about her aspergers diagnosis.
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We found the book 'All Cats Have Aspergers Syndrome' by Kathy Hoopman was a fantastic tool to use with both younger children and adults to discuss Autism and how my girls think / feel. We even used it when discussing with my 7yo about her aspergers diagnosis.