Written with full permission of author and mother; Jack is very keen for the world to hear his voice and for his narrative to be used widely for people to understand autism better. His work is already being used for training purposes in his locality.

The Start of my Life

Hello I’m Jack Jackson I have Autism it means I think different than you. In preschool I missed my mummy more than any one else. I did not like the smells and did not let anybody come near me except for my mummy. I did not like loud noises and bright lights. No one could understand me accept for my mummy because I could not talk well. I felt worried and scared back then and had no friends.

Life at School with Autism

Right now I’m in Year 4 and life here is tricky. I Find Class and Recess Very Hard. I find Work Hard And Find It difficult to keep still, not talk and not to be loud, I don’t try to be annoying to anyone because that is not a nice thing. I see my friends find things much easier without me, I wish people could see through my brain because people could then see how I feel.

I forget things all the time, I freak out all the time, and cry a lot at school but try to hide it all and try to be normal, this is very tiring for me.

I think because I look normal people forget I have autism and life with this is hard.

Jack’s Likes and Dislikes

Likes

1 Family

2 books

3 Bike

4 Coding

5 My new form of quizzes

6 Movies

7 Running

8 Having fun

9 Hide and seek

10 Pasta and cheese

Dislikes

1 Homework

2 Not being

understood

3 New foods

4 Away from home

5 Being laugh at

6 Finding school hard

7 Walking

8 being left out

9 friends treating

Me differently

10 changes

Jack’s Wishes

I wish the world can see how it is like to have autism and how a autism brain is like.