The longer reads

What autism is

The spectrum, the three support levels, a lifetime, and what does not cause it.

Hard choices: ABA, medicine, and telling them

Both sides of behavioural therapy, the questions to ask on a tour, what medicine can and cannot do, and telling your child.

When they hit, bite or break things

Safe in the moment, the medical causes to check first, what helps next time, medicine, and crisis help.

Wandering and water

Check water first, door alarms, ID they will keep on, trackers, and telling people before anything happens.

School

Early intervention, the evaluation, IEP and 504, the meeting, when they keep calling.

Adult life

The services cliff, turning 18, guardianship and its alternatives, money, work, when you are gone.

Your partner, or diagnosed as an adult

When your spouse or partner is autistic, and what a diagnosis in adulthood does and does not change.

For family and friends

The page written for them, so you stop explaining.