my son's brain is not working like yours, and right away, most of the kids gets it. why, It is rewire differently, and does not works like yours. I use this all the time, to both kids and adults.

I usually explain my oldest to people that "He doesn't get it". That usually gets me a funny look and sometimes they ask get what? Then I go on to explain that sometimes he doesn't get how to talk to other people or the right and wrong way to tell someone something without being rude. I compare things like blindness, deafness, and other disabilities to his disability. He doesn't always understand how to interact with others and he doesn't understand things like once you give something to someone it's theirs to do with as they want. Basically, I just tell people the way things are with my son is what I'm trying to say. Good Luck!

Kids might have a hard time following this, but I heard this in a workshop. Have you ever been in a near accident in a car - and when the adrenaline is running through your body every sound and sight is amplified. What if every waking moment was like that? It is for these kids. They get exhausted and unable to take in too much information.

You know how you can have a picture that is one picture but could be two different things. If you have some of those black and white photos where it looks like a butterfly or it's actually two faces. Autistic children process things differently so that what they see, hear, or feel seems different to them than it does to other children. What if touching a person's skin felt like sandpaper to someone else when to you it is smooth? What if the sounds of a crowd are more like a scary waterfall when heard by someone else. The other thing you can do is have your child attempt to go through an entire day while avoiding eye contact. Then talk about how that feels. Children with Autism have social pain which makes these simple tasks more difficult. A lack of eye contact affects a person tremendously. Autism is a spectrum disorder too so explaining that a seriously affected person may have significant challenges with speaking while a high functioning person may just seem awkward in speaking with them like they are just different. Teaching them that it's okay to process things differently from others is key here. :)

i like that, straight and simple. :-)