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Today, in the library a child came up to my son and tried to engage him. My son who is none verbal could not respond so I spoke up ... "its ok. He doesn't speak and understand like we do. He is autistic. Do you know what that is?" No.... I found my self scrambling for words and ended up saying something like "he see world differently and like when you get excited and cheer that is how he sees the world but can't tell anyone. It's ok to play with him and show him things and even help teach him"
… read moreoh gosh that is a hard one i would say . he doesn't talk yet but we are hoping he will find his words and he just talks different then you and I. And explain some people use their hands to talk or computers for example.
When my kid was the only ASD kid in the daycare, another kid asked me if my daughter could talk because my daughter doesn't reply to questions which is pretty common for ASD kids. She is verbal but has problems with speech. A boy later exclaimed "She talked!" I haven't seen her play with other kids except her little brother.
I would tell other kids that their generation has a lot of ASD kids and that my generation didn't have so many ASD kids so they will grow up with autistic kids. They need some understanding because one way or another non-autistic kids will have deal with ASD long after the parents pass away. If ASD doesn't affect your immediate family it will affect someone they know- friends, their kids, neighbors, classmates, co-workers. . .
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