I have a cute story about Adrian but first I just wanted to remind everyone that I have two giveaways going on right now. One of them is ending today. The Autism Awareness Nail Shields giveaway, so if you want to get in the drawing go to that post for details. I will randomly draw a winner tomorrow for a set of those. The second giveaway I have going on is a fabulous book called A Full Life with Autism. It will help you come up with strategies and put you in touch with various resources on helping your child with autism live up to their full potential as an adult. I truly highly recommend this book and I am thrilled to be giving two copies of this book away. So click here to go to that giveaway and get entered. The book giveaway will be open for the rest of April. I have at least two more giveaways coming up in the next couple of weeks too so if you like giveaways keep an eye out for more from me.
Onto my cute story. Last night the girls had a neighbor girl over for a sleepover. They live right next door so it’s really convenient and they have kids around the ages of my kids. They have a little boy who is the same age as Adrian and he comes over now and then. It’s been really fun to see him interact with Adrian. He hasn’t ever said anything about how Adrian talked or acted until this morning. He came up to me and said “I think Adrian speaks Spanish because I can’t understand what he’s saying.” I said, “You can’t understand him sometimes because he has autism.” Then he asked the next logical question “What is autism?” That’s not always an easy question to answer but of course I’ve thought about it a lot and this is what I said, “Autism makes Adrian’s brain think differently then some of your other friends’ brains. It makes it where sometimes he has trouble talking, making friends, or learning some things. Sometimes it might seem like he’s ignoring you but he can hear you.” and he said, “Ok, I understand.”
Adrian might be making his first friend. How neat would that be?
