#teenagerwithautism

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🧼 Ryan has been struggling to remember how to do his own laundry (a task he is only just now learning because his foster mother wouldn't teach him because he is a boy. 🙄 Fortunately we aren't sexists, OK boomers, or time-traveling parents from the 1950s, and neither are our appliances!). . Up until now I have shown and guided Ryan through the laundry process, with no luck in getting it to "stick" - and Ryan becoming increasingly frustrated and upset with himself. Yesterday he asked me if I could write down the steps. I did him one better: I slapped color-coded labels on the laundry products and whipped up a color-coded instruction sheet. . Tomorrow I'm going to update the current taped instruction sheet to a laminated one, and then Ryan will be good to go. No more confusion, no more anxiety, no more self-doubt and no more tears will make every single label I need to remember to make worth it. 💗 (And with the move home PLUS the pandemic PLUS the abrupt change to homeschooling, we've had a lot, and I mean a *LOT*, of meltdowns and stimming behaviors to work through lately. Honestly? We can't get from the end of one meal to the beginning of the next without at least one emotional outburst. 🙁) . #autism #autismspectrumdisorder #ASD #Aspergers #childwithautism #kidwithautism #teenwithautism #teenagerwithautism #autisticchild #autistickid #autisticteen #autisticteenager #specialneedschild #specialneedskid #specialneeds https://www.instagram.com/p/CAhZaOaHMe2/?igshid=d2lix4hyyz8p