Ty's basketball court game only got better, more creative and more complicated but as you can see in this photo:
all of what seem's like a mess or disorganized "stuff" makes perfect sense to him!
He cut paper plates to make the game pieces and hand selected each basketball card from his collection to make the most outstanding All Start team-
Each piece he wrote their name on and organized it with the players official card.
Now again, to me and most people this looks like a giant mess... but when he starts talking he knows exactly what he's doing, where things are supposed to be and will go and really this is completely organized and well thought out!
And this is why sometimes you HAVE to stop "trying" to have kids on the spectrum do things "the way society says it should be done" and allow them to be themselves and run with their ideas!
Because even if it doesn't make sense to us, it makes sense to them and this is how amazing things are invented.
Do you think when the Apple computer was invented and Steve Jobs and Wozniack( sorry if mispelled) tried to explain what this home computer is, how it operates, what it can do, and how amazing this technology will be in the future-
most people understood?
I'm pretty sure they did not- and even still people (myself included) don't really understand the ins and outs of computer technology- we just know how to use it.
I'm just saying we cannot shut down these minds of people on the spectrum (or anyone in that matter)!
This is how things are created and this is what makes the world a more interesting place.
Now tomorrow I will be very curious when he teaches me "how to play his game"....
I just love seeing that kid be his true self!
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