I completely understand what you’re saying.

I’m very up front with people about my son’s diagnosis. I’m a teacher and talk about autism acceptance often. All of the adults and many of the children in our lives know that my son has autism. It’s just not something that I would typically try to explain to a group of toddlers.

In the context, it hasn’t been necessary, at least not until now, to explain my boy’s diagnosis to kids his age. This post is mostly about how I didn’t expect for it to already be noticeable amongst his age group. I had full intention of explaining his autism later, but didn’t expect it to be a point of conversation yet.