The Great Communicator

When your brother has Asperger's Syndrome, communication can be challenging at best. Always looking for ways to get her VERY IMPORTANT point across, Carly gets creative. She came in from school yesterday and was whining... "Ben won't play with me!!!! He won't!" I said, "Carly, did you ASK him to play, he can't read your mind, Sweets". For real, she rolled her eyes and said, "I wrote him a note in the car (she sits 2 inches away from him), and he wrote back, 'no'!!". (A few points here for me for keeping a straight face) Ben made it quite clear (by yelling down the stairs) that he was busy "writing a book", which, is true. To comfort my poor, friendless girl, we hunkered down to make a few cards. More points for being the mom with an endless supply of paper, glitter, markers, and stickers!