You are holding a whole household together, and nobody has asked.
Not the one doing the caring?
If you are a friend, a relative, a teacher or someone at church, there is a page written for you: what to say, what lands badly however kindly meant, and the specific jobs that help. How to help a family with an autistic member.
Make it speak about your person:Cards and pages tune to fit. Stays on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere.
You are not failing.
Autism is lifelong, it is nobody's fault, and it is not caused by how you parent. The person you love is not broken and does not need fixing. What they need is a world that makes more sense to them, and you are the person building it, one hard evening at a time. This guide is for the hard evenings. What autism is is for the calmer ones.