Nonsense!

People with autism often take the world literally.

Why then, does my son delight in nonsense?

Probably for much the same reasons other

children do: 

Nonsense words are fun to read and say, 

nonsense pictures are amusing,

nonsense is new. 

And my son loves new.

I also think nonsense has a couple of advantages

that my son feels more strongly than do children

without autism: 

He understands nonsense just as well as I do. 

and

Nobody expects him to understand nonsense

or questions him about nonsense.

Tiny DiTerlooney’s (aka Tony DiTerlizzi)

G is for One Gzonk charmed him, though

he is far past needing “an alpha-number-

bet book.” Each page tells a story of 

some ridiculous creature and the 

pictured boy artist who travels through

the book claims to have created the 

entire miscellany, except for when

the numbers (Onesie, Twosie, and

Threesie) invade and want to start

all over from the beginning.

I am a bit nervous about reading this

very complicated nonsense to 

my four year old, but for a child 

secure in their letters and numbers

and with no self-consciousness about

reading a kiddie book (a description

of many kids with autism) this 

book provides a great romp.

-Spectrum Mom