How having autism may have emotional impact on your adolescent
For the bulk of us the teenage years are our most social years, we alter from being a child and cared for as one, into a young adult. Our expectations alter, in addition to the expectations put on us from those in our world.
If you are a teen on the spectrum this point of your life can bring about anxieties, stress and confusion. Imagine being dropped off the bus in a completely alien surroundings where not a soul spoke your language, what would you do? How would you cope?
Well having autism is similar, the world around you is baffling, you like habits, things to the stay the same and can become confused when met by changes or unfamiliar conditions.
For example puberty, confusing for a typically developing teen, but for a teen on the spectrum who already has difficulties with communication and social skills this time is going to be all the more stressful. If you do not know the way to ask what is happening to you, your feelings and your body how are you going to even begin to make sense of puberty?
That's where autistic tools like social stories can help. A social story is needed as a means of communication that can help calm nerves, reduce anxieties and make clear even the most confusing situation, skill or behaviour that your teen with ASD might be struggling to cope with.
For instance is your teen with ASD struggling with menstruation? A social story can explain the "wh" questions (what, where, when and why) in a manner your adolescent with autism will understand. Many parents trust autistic tools such as social stories to help them find ways of teaching social and communication skills and behaviours.
Much like a comic strip conversation a social story is a visual framework describing visually the skill or behaviour showing the key focus points and giving possible behaviour suggestions, which will allow the autistic adolescent to see what is expected of them as well as what they should be expecting from others.
The social story may also help the teen with autism practise a skill, for instance going out with mates bowling, cinema, a meal out, a social kiss and so forth helping calm and reassure the teen with autism. Making a confusing or stressful situation more routine, which in turn will hep the autistic teen feel more comfortable, reducing anxiety and stress.
As a result, knowing how having autism may affect your teen you are now able to help and take more control by providing support in the form of social skills stories for autistic teens, these can be downloaded from
http://www.autismsocialstories.com
Or alternatively social skills stories for autistic teens can be downloaded from
By visiting any of these sites you can also find more information on what social skills stories are and how they are implemented to help with teenage issues for teenagers on the spectrum.
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