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Birthdays with an Autistic child are hard. Not noticeably for Teddy, but deeply for me. Another milestone moment to highlight all the things Teddy isn't doing yet but younger kids are. It seems like everything is different. Teddy doesn't like opening wrapped gifts. He's too busy, no time for that. If we encourage him to stop and open them he becomes upset, taking the fun out of it for him and everyone else. Instead we try to do experiences. This year we went to the zoo. Teddy doesn't like cake. He has been watching the "Pavlova" episode of Bluey so I got creative and put some candles on top of the dreamy meringue dessert. He didn't eat one bite. Not even fruit from the top. He got overwhelmed by us urging him to blow out the candles, which he did blow out one candle. We didn't do a party, didn't invite anyone over after picking him up from Therapy. It would've been exhausting for him. Or maybe it would've been exhausting for me? I don'...
