Helping “Jacob” Fit In
Jacob comes to church activities with aspergers-like symptoms. We love Jacob and are eager to serve him well. He is brilliant and also very rigid in his thinking. If it is not logical to him, it is not to be done. If a teacher or leader or another child is doing something that does not make sense in his black or white only perspective, he really has a hard time. The behavior he sometimes displays is impatience, and/orrudeness, and/ormeltdowns. He cannot work his way out of an “It HAS TO BE DONE like this” way of thinking. We suggest that...