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Our living room has a good balance of dark and warm colours on the walls. Notice there aren’t many busy patterns going on! Lots of colours found in the natural environment, also Matt paint reduces reflective glare from natural and un-natural light sources.

Cards can be busy and birthdays overwhelming visually, we have placed a framed display board on the wall to control the level of disruption in the living space and it is framed deliberately in a colour to help the eye to focus in on the board whilst looking at the cards.

Our hallway is narrow, so to create the illusion of space without using mirrors, I have created these geometric paintings using colours that are easy on the eye. The shapes  focus the eye into the centre of the pictures! I like to think of them as, ‘open doorways.’

Toys! Trinity has a lot of fidget and sensory toys. A whole array of different balls too, as you can imagine they can end up all over the place in seconds which she often finds more reinforcing than actually playing with them! Essential to the serenity in our home and toy boxes with lids that so we can reduce the level of anxiety from chaotic toy throwing/dumping!

When I organised the cupboard by placing things into boxes it helped with executive functioning as the less chaotic my cupboard was the less disordered my thought processing seemed to be whilst carrying out tasks around the home.

(It’s taken me years to realise this and be actually able to organise myself, also my husband taught me how to declutter and let things go that I don’t need)

“It is not so much that Asperger Syndrome (AS) presents differently in girls and women, but that it is perceived differently, and therefore is often not recognized” (Simone, R. ‘Aspergirls Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome’ Published: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2010, London UK & Philadelphia USA)