School Supplies Alone Won’t Do It
Do parents with children on the autism spectrum need to prepare for school differently? For most families, getting ready to start the school year includes new pencils and books and backpacks. When you child is on the autism spectrum, the effort to get prepared for...
Learning to Be Flexible
Why are people with ASD so rigid? People on the spectrum often express a strong desire to control their environment in order to manage the discomfort of autism. Because processing new information is so difficult or painful, people with ASD become inflexible to manage...
Social Conformity
What makes social conformity difficult for people with autism? Much of the social conformity that comes naturally to the rest of us originates from innately knowing and following the social rules without thought. We act, think and do things the way we do because that...
Do You Think People With Autism Can Lie?
Do you think people with autism can lie? While being a “rule-follower” is often part of the personality and character make up of an individual on the spectrum, sometimes to the extreme that we might feel like they are policing a situation, that...