A new coat.
It can be hard for people with autism to change sometimes. But Lucas needed a new winter coat, so yesterday I took him shopping.
Late February is a good time to buy a coat, because everyone is trying to unload them. We went into one store, and I had him try on the only one in his size. Lucky for both of us, it was a warm and reasonably priced coat, because he really liked it:
The sales lady and I told him how cool he looked in it, and I caught him smiling a little bit at his reflection.
I wanted to continue to make him feel “cool” in his new coat, so I took a photo of him and told him I was going to show my friends how good he looks! Maybe this is the answer to helping an autistic person with change; like the rest of us, maybe they just need to feel good about it!