Routines and Change

• “People with autism like routines, and if those routines are broken it does not mean that we don’t understand what is happening it just means that it is harder for us than most to stop our brains from spinning off into their regular patterns. It is a process that is hard to understand and also hard to fully explain, but it can be terrifying to an autistic person not to be given repeated warnings when in fact their routine will change.”

• Sue Rubin, Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone, p. 88