Autism Spectrum

  • NewsYahoo Life

    Autistic Wedding Guest Was Served Bacon, and It Meant So Much to His Mom

    A boy with autism who loves bacon got his favorite food at a family wedding. The matter is even more delicate for parents of children on the autism spectrum, as well as adults on the spectrum themselves. “Our wedding RSVP included: 1- beef entree, 2- chicken entrees, 1- bacon entree,” wrote Jo-Ann Turning on the Facebook page of her family’s blog, Bacon and Juiceboxes: Our Life With Autism.

  • NewsYahoo Canada Style

    'You can't see autism like you can see chicken pox,' says mom who was criticized in grocery store

    Bringing the kids to the grocery store can be challenging for any parent — those impulse aisles at the cash register were practically designed for a tantrum — but for a parent of a child with autism, the struggle can be next level. Just ask Australian mom, Katie Maree, who recently shared a recent unfortunate experience while shopping at a Coles supermarket. According to the post, both of Maree’s kids are on the autism spectrum and happened to be having a particularly bad day.

  • NewsSimone Olivero

    Mom's viral post about random act of kindness reaches stranger

    On July 23, Skaggs shared the story of two kids in the water park who let her daughter Baylee skip in front of them in line for the water slide when they noticed her getting agitated. The 5 year old is autistic, and while Skaggs was trying to teach her the importance of waiting in line, when other kids started breaking the rules, she could feel Baylee growing frustrated. Not what she will do but what other people will,” Skaggs explains in the post.

  • NewsSimone Olivero

    This autistic boy is learning to socialize thanks to Pokémon Go

    “Thanks to the suggestion of my fellow-autism-mama friend and fellow body painter Ren Allen, I finally introduced Ralphie to Pokemon Go tonight,” Lenore Koppelman writes in a Facebook post. “Hyperlexia is an unusually early ability to read,” Ralph’s father Steve Koppelman tells Buzzfeed.