My Advice Is: You Always Have To

My Life - Autism's An Important Part Of It, But It Bothers Me When I See Kids Where Autism And Their Autism Is The Only Thing They Think About. I'd Rather Have Them Think About, You Know, Some Art Work They Were Gonna Do Or Some Science They Wanted To Do.

For Example, If Ears Are Back On A Horse, It's Obviously Not Very Happy. And The Eyes Show That It's Not Happy. Now, If The Eyes Are Nice And Soft And Brown, Then It's Calm. You Can See These Things In Horses And Cattle, And I Think That Some Of These People Are Just Really Good At Picking Up These Signals, But They Don't Realize It.

Animals Make Us Human.

It's Very Important For The Parents Of Young Autistic Children To Encourage Them To Talk, Or For Those That Don't Talk, To Give Them A Way Of Communicating, Like A Picture Board, Where They Can Point To A Glass Of Milk, Or A Jacket If They're Cold, Or The Bathroom. If They Want Something, Then They Need To Learn To Request That Thing.

Language Just Gradually Came In, One Or Two Stressed Words A Time. Before Then, I Would Just Scream. I Couldn't Talk. I Couldn't Get My Words Out. So The Only Way I Could Tell Someone What I Wanted Was To Scream. If I Didn't Want To Wear A Hat, The Only Way I Knew To Communicate Was Screaming And Throwing It On The Floor.