I made myself a rule early on that I wouldn’t use autism as an excuse because I wanted him to never consider himself or be considered by others as inferior. But there is a rigid side to that, and rigid I’m not. So, I’m learning it’s a much harder balance to achieve than I thought.

This isn’t something we’ve had to think much about as his deviousness is usually much cuter than yesterday’s episode was. Maybe the key is to rejoice in these as achievements now and worry about addressing the more trying aspects of the behavior a bit later. Don’t know. Would love people’s insights on this.