“BEST OF” SUMMER SERIES - Rigid Thinking and the Inability to be Flexible

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We know that in autism our children's repetitive and fixated
behaviors are generally the strategies they use to reduce the
chaos and minimalize their overload by seeking the predictability
and routine of sameness. These are their attempts to decrease
their overwhelm from the stimulation and provide some sort of
order to the confusing overwhelming world they are in.


Our children struggle with being flexible because of their need
for sameness and being in control and when things have to change
or you have to drive a different way home because of a traffic
accident their ability to be flexible is nowhere to be found,
right?


Our world honestly is way too uncertain and unpredictable for our
kids on the spectrum. What applies in one situation doesn’t
necessarily apply to the next and that results in increased
anxiety and sometimes anger when things don’t go the way they
anticipated.


Our goal is never to overwhelm them but we want them to mentally
engage and tackle their uncertainty and reduce that rigid
thinking. We want them to be able to evaluate options when there
is a roadblock or something doesn’t go as planned. Everyone makes
mistakes until they practice and get better. You have to learn
what doesn’t work to ultimately learn what does work, right? That
is what we want to teach them.


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Additional Resources:


Episode 96. Our Parenting Journey is Different


Episode 74. You Cannot Fix All the Things All the Time