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Great spread! I really like the natural lighting. Have a great week!🩷🌸🍄☀️

Girl, you ain't getting sleep until they go off to college. Take it from me.... A mom of three ( 2 boys 50 weeks apart) and a full-time teacher. 🤓 Love it while you can ! 🤗

Do not feel like a bad mommy bc ur son struggles with his autism. U are doing ur best. I’m over people making us feel like this. It took me over 10 years to motive my autistic daughter who’s 28, but also tested as a genius, grrrr, to get her bum in college. It’s so so hard I get it.

I love yt shorts

I’m in Southern California and we had a Tropical Storm 🤨 A first for us and it was crazy!

With Weston and the paper, have you tried scanning in or photographing the papers he wants to keep so he can always "have" them digitally? If you can create a place he can still see them whenever he wants then the physical copy may become less important. The same with toys that are old, etc. It works for me and I'm on the spectrum :)

Hi Erin, the natural lighting is so much better and I can't stand shorts, I just feel like thats what IG or TikTok is for ... but I never get my way LOL

Please don’t feel like a bad mommy, you do what you can and autism is hard. I do have a son with autism and do have mental problems myself too. I have thought for a long time (and sometimes still) that I am a bad mommy, but I realized I do whatever I can for my children. If you do it with love, your child will know. What works for my son is telling him I don’t know everything, that I’m still learning (about life and autism too) so I make mistakes sometimes and that I’m sorry for that. I also tell him that he may let me know what works best for him anytime he is able to. Maybe your son can let you know in his way to you what works for him or what he don’t want you to do in a situation. Maybe you can give your son some kind of peace in that way? When we get things changed like furniture, we tell our son as soon as we known, even if it is weeks in advance. After a time, when the change comes closer, we will repeat it more times in a day and in the last couple of days before the change (or a trip or something excited at his school), we tell him daily and ask how he feels about it. Due to his answer to this question we handle. For instance making things more clear for him or give him more time to game so he can unwind. Wish you the best. And love your spread. Due to depression and other things, I haven’t touched my hobonichi cousin for a very long time. The weeks are completely empty this year. I want to start using my hobonichi again and was looking for inspiration. Your video is the first I see and I really like your style! I’m excited now to start again after seeing how nice and neat your spread looks. Thank you for the inspiration 😊😘.

Hi Erin. Would you possibly sometime do a video on how you do your tip in? I love your channel!

I'm actually autistic so hopefully I can provide a little helpful perspective here? One big thing with autism is personification of objects. It can be easy to not only grow super attached to things as an autistic person, but even to think, you know, won't this thing be SAD if I get rid of it? x shirt has been with me for whatever number of years, won't it be sad if we break up even though it doesn't fit me anymore? One way I've had to get around that as a late-diagnosed autistic is the idea that said object will be MORE sad sitting unused in my closet than being able to move on to the next thing. Highkey Marie Kondo's konmari method helped me WAY before the kind of konmari boom went on. Taking the time to acknowledge that the thing was important, we had good times together, or even just that it taught me that I didn't need it helped, along with that logic that, oh, this book I've never read would be happier with someone else who is going to read it. This paper has done its job of communicating its information to me, and now it would be happiest being recycled and getting a new job to do. As for the Big Changes bit, a lot of it for me has been finding points of familiarity in the new thing. If that means wearing the same jacket to school every day because the school is new but the jacket is a comfort object and that makes things easier, sometimes I just gotta be the person everyone knows wears the same jacket every day. It also helps to know EXACTLY what's going into the New Thing going on. Not just "you'll go to school and go to different classes", but being able to know, step-by-step, what a walkthrough of my day with the New Thing will look like makes it a lot easier to do. I'd encourage talking to Weston and seeing what his exact fears around the thing are! For me, I don't like eating at new restaurants, for example, because I haven't already set a "script" in my head for how I'm expected to act in this place and order. I wasn't able to try subway until I got to watch a few people go through a subway order and see how they picked out ingredients, in what order, what questions were asked, etc. because otherwise I'd freeze up and go nonverbal. But I'm a different person, so what helps me may not help him! It's always good to ask and say, "what would make this transition easier for you", plus things like "the school will be different but you'll have x y and z that's the same". Having those points to latch onto also makes things way easier! Sorry if this was rambly, but I hope it helps!!

I am a mom of 2 boys with autism and I learned something that worked for my youngest. You create a story for him with pictures of the items he is familiar with and himself. I believe I still have one you can use for reference, can I email it to you to the yahoo email attached to this video? I can send it if you want to try it out. My little one is very visual and making a story of himself with his face and familiar faces and objects helped him understand things better. He would carry it around like a book and whenever the big "issue" (didn't know what other thing to call it) came up, I would sit down and read the story to him. Let me know! Also, my family lives in Fall River and I used to as well before getting marry 😅 I remember you mentioning that town in one of your videos haha

I don’t like Shorts, so I don’t watch them. I don’t like the trend, at all. Do what you want though, I will continue to watch your long-form videos because I like them!