PDA Irish Style

Christmas can be fun, but watch out for January I've read a number of 'how to cope with Christmas and autism' posts the last few weeks, and wondered at my family's positive experiences of Christmas. Adapt As I look back I realise that we did a lot of adjusting as a family before any diagnosis was ever in our thoughts. Every family adjusts to their idea of the perfect Christmas. Our quiet stay at home times worked for all of us. We never did a lot of visiting or travelling. We didn't go to parties. We always stayed home on Christmas day. My son loves food so we made a lot out of creating the Christmas meal. We made annual fudge. We still do. We've always been flexible. We got a garage tree late one year in the dark because that's what was going to work. We always included the decorations and pictures he made. I still put up his creations age 3, age 4 even though he's now 14. We did whatever was fun for us.  He could spend all day o