Parenting neurodivergent, question for advice
@actuallyautistic my daughter (almost 3 years old) who is almost diagnosed with autism (we assumed it some time ago) seems to have problems to deal with consumption of digital Media.
Even about 10 minutes of mobile time hours before bedtime seem to result in multiple hours awake at night.
Is there some advice or experience regarding this by the #actuallyAutistic community?
We really want to make help her being comfortable the way she is.
Parenting neurodivergent, question for advice
One plausible reason is the novelty and the need to process it - mobile and digital media could present her with things that are entirely out of the context of her everyday life, and that becomes something huge to make sense of for the #actuallyAutistic brain.
If this is the issue, some period of quiet time after using the device, that lets her just process what she's seen, would help.
Another possibility is fantasizing about what she *hasn't* seen, due to getting overly focused on the digital content, and ruminating about that digital world.
In this case, setting plans for what she's gonna see, and letting her know in advance what's coming the next day, would help fix it in her mind as something concrete, and hence avoid the excessive fantasizing.
Parenting neurodivergent, question for advice
@digital_carver @actuallyautistic thank you for the input. :)
Both things may fit our situation.
One time it was a game we also have as card game what maybe made no sense.
The other time it was allwoing her to catch a pokemon. Maybe not the best idea after reading your suggestion.
Thanks again