Maddie on a field trip.

The main goal at my itsanautismthing.com site is to show the many sides of my girl Maddie. To help people understand that people on the autism spectrum are filled with all the same emotions that don’t have developmental disabilities. While I want to protect the love of my life at all costs, I don’t want to make it seem like being on the spectrum is just some cloud-free existence. This video is a little tougher, but if you reach far enough inside yourself, I think you will be moved. Plus it has a funny ending.

A little background on this video is that Maddie has a behavior sheet she brings home every day which discusses how her day went. On this day, Maddie had some bad marks on it, so I wanted to find out what was the problem. What I learned from this video is that I sometimes forget that despite her being 10 years old, she developmentally can often be more like a 4 year-old. If you look at the video with that in mind, it doesn’t seem that atypical.