Autism Aggression at Puberty

By Travis Breeding

Puberty is a confusing time for autistic people leaving those who love and support them baffled by their actions. This book explains some of the reasons for aggressive behaviors during puberty and talks about how to sooth and comfort the autistic teen as their body is changing along with their emotions. This book gives you the social tools needed to help your loved one breeze through puberty with grace and dignity.

If you have ever wondered what it feels like to be confused by the world around you then imagine yourself in the shoes of an autistic twelve year old going from elementary school to middle school. All of a sudden you are experiencing puberty. Your body and emotions are changing but so are the social rules at school. Socializing is no longer playing tag with each other on the playground. It is now about having small talk and connecting with conversation. It is now a game of popularity and you are unsure how to play the game.

Read this book to see how an autistic man coped with the ever changing environment in middle school along with his changing body and emotions. The author shares tips for how to prepare autistic teens in advance for puberty and the best ways to help them understand their ever changing feelings and mood swings. It will also touch on aggression and explain why the autistic teen is more on edge during puberty.

if you have a loved on on the spectrum going through puberty or you support an autistic teen in your career, this book is for you. It will guide you in guiding the autistic teen through the challenges they face in making it through puberty.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Breeding Publishing
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463392690

Travis Breeding

Travis is an author from Huntington Indiana how enjoys entertaining and educating through words. He enjoys telling a story and taking it from his mind to paper. He has authored several books on autism, mental illness, schizophrenia, and disability issues. He continues to write about those issues but also explores some fiction writing as well. Travis has a loving family and enjoys spending time with friends and family. He loves to play bingo and meet new people. One day Travis hopes to start a family of his own and give them so much love. Travis would like to thank his readers for supporting him on his journey of becoming an author. He could not have done it without you. If you would like to get in touch with Travis please email him at tbreedauthoratgmaildotcom,

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Autism Aggression at Puberty

Travis Breeding

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Copyright 2018 Travis Breeding

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Autism Aggression at Puberty

About the Author

Autism Aggression at Puberty

Things were going along nicely. I had finally seemed to figure life out and made some sense of the school day. Then several things happened that would rock my world.

The first thing that happened was when I went from sixth grade into my seventh, grade year. I went to school back in the day where sixth graders were still at our elementary school and seventh-graders went to the middle school.

The transition from sixth grade to seventh grade was difficult for me. Not only was I changing school buildings and spending my days in an entirely different environment, but I was also changing teachers. I wasn’t just changing one teacher at a time either, because when I entered middle school and got into the seventh grade, we started having multiple teachers. I was no expected to learn the teaching styles of seven or eight different teachers, and that task felt very overwhelming to me.

It is hard for an autistic person to adapt to change. I had become accustomed to having one teacher throughout the school day and only having to switch teachers once per year as I advanced grades.

Now, I was going to have seven or eight different teachers throughout the day and be expected to switch classes every forty to forty-five minutes. That is a lot to ask of any child.

As I got more into my seventh grade, year, I noticed something else starting to change. The children started to change. Their behavior started being different than what it had been the previous seven years in elementary school. They started socializing different and it seemed like there was now a whole new set of social rules that I wasn’t aware of.

I didn’t do so bad in elementary school because there were fewer social skills to learn there than there would be in middle school.

In elementary school if you could run around on the playground and play tag you were doing quite well at fitting in and making friends.

In middle school, I learned there’s a lot more to making friends than playing tag or running around on the playground playing games. Middle school is much more complex, and the social environment and social concepts change as the kids get older.

This change is where I first really started to notice I was different. I would say seventh grade is when I first started to be able to tell that I had Asperger Syndrome even though I had no idea I had it at the time because I was undiagnosed until the age of 22.

Everything about socializing had changed. Kids didn’t run around on the playground at recess anymore. Occasionally some of the boys might have played basketball but mostly the kids just