Normally once he ‘gets’ something once, he can build pretty rapidly off of that. Pretend play feels like a much bigger mountain to climb though, which shouldn’t be surprising for an autistic child. Letters and numbers and colors are a lot more straightforward in the grand scheme of things.

Regardless of how big the mountain is, if we can just get on the mountain to begin with, that’s a start. And you have to start somewhere.

Even in the midst of a very rough week, there are still these kinds of moments. Through achievements like this, he does a good job helping us keep things in perspective.