Your Literally Ausome Guide to Understanding and Supporting your Autistic Friend

Description

The guide includes:

• What’s Autism and some facts about Autism
• The Autism ‘Spectrum’ and how it’s diagnosed
• Autistic traits and characteristics explained
• Executive Functioning
• Autistic masking and Autistic burnout
• Autistic meltdowns and shutdowns and saying no to functioning labels
• The challenges with changing tasks and an Autistic perspective to understanding Autism.

What your Autistic friend might want you to know and how you can support them:

• In social situations
• When spending time together
• Other areas and ways to support your Autistic friend
• Supporting your friend when they’re in shutdown

Summary and conclusion and a reminder that you’re an Ausome friend. Literally!