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CJohnston

My kids worked on this tongue-in-cheek blog about ‘Neurotypical Madness’

I think it might give some of the wonderful community here a smile

sluggerotoole.com/2021/07/21/n

Slugger O'TooleNeurotypical Nonsense: A Beginner’s GuideIt all started with a trip to the funfair, complete with its overload of noise, lights and crashing machinery, and a casual remark from my bemused oldest: “what is this neurotypical nonsense?” And so, the Big List of Neurotypical Nonsense was born. And we’re going to share some of it here. Neurotypical nonsense is, according to my two proudly Autism spectrum teens, anything so ludicrously head-wrecking it could never have been invented by an Autistic person*. Because if it had …
Dec 20, 2022, 05:58 PM·Public·Web
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Robyn Hyde

@CJohnston Very good. I especially agree with the one about holidays.

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CJohnston

@thyckhyde Thank you

Was just a few of their thoughts, always fascinating to hear them

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Robyn Hyde

@CJohnston It really is important. We need to listen more to the young.

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CJohnston

@thyckhyde absolutely - beautifully said Robyn

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Herstory

@CJohnston great list ticking clocks are top of my most hated list (I’ve lost count of the amount of clocks I’ve had to take the batteries out of). But socks and holidays are essentials for me. Nothing worse than cold feet and nothing better than going on holiday to a beautiful place. I also like eating with others (communal eating used to be more common than today)

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CJohnston

@Herstory Thank you for the kind words :) They both loved writing it and it helped us have a great conversation things about that are a sensory pain for them. Thank you again.

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