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Reposting a hugely popular post from last year. ️  Most children are fortunate enough to receive far more Christmas gifts than they need. For many children an enormous mountain of Christmas presents that they can rip open is the most exciting thing possible. For many autistic children it is terrifying. As we mentioned in an earlier post give them GIFT TIME SPACE, but it can also be helpful to space out gifts over the day or even days and weeks.  This is a fantastic strategy

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