How do people with autism experience empathy?
I decided to write about this as a result of an article I posted on SNJ’s social media a while back about autism and empathy. It had such a great response …
Category: social anxiety disorder
Tests: Do you and your child find them testing?
It’s that time of the term again here in the Aspland household. Tests! One week every term is handed over to testing what my children know. Now, I am not …
Selective Mutism: When anxiety shuts down the power to speak
In the past, our youngest has struggled with selective mutism, as part of their autism. Anxiety and sensory overload can cause “freeze” from the fight, flight or freeze response. However, …