Abbey's Mom
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So you're not fully for liability. So anyways, I went to the school and said, can she do advanced weaving? I asked the teacher, would it be okay if we did this? The teacher said, what a great idea. The principal said no. And I went home defeated as a parent trying to create something for my kid. I was very sad, defeated. And I called the teacher, Miss Carol, and I told her. The principal said no.
And she said, well, I'm retiring. I'm just going to come to your house and I'm going to show you what you can do on your own.
And if it wasn't for her, we would never be doing this. That teacher... She did. She was the one that came to our house and said, yes, I will help you.
We started on Facebook. I started telling to my little Dixie Canyon girls who I just saw this weekend. And they started buying hats at my house in my living room. And then we put it on Facebook and people from my high school started to buy. And that was beautiful. And then we just, you know, that's why her name is Hats by Abby.
Because when we were doing TikTok, I thought, well, maybe this will help the hats. Yeah. If I say hat to my ass. Yeah. Maybe this will help her. And she's, you know, just amazing. It's amazing. And now she's filling orders and she's, you know, writing notes to people and maybe doing a video for a customer, buying the yarn, choosing the colors and stuff like that. So she has a whole store. Wow.
I think it depends on the autism. I think Danny Bowman from Love on the Spectrum is in animation, right, Abby? She is. She does all kinds of animation. Abby is not as interested in that as she is in solid, concrete, structured tasks. So for Abby, if it's actually a job, Abby loves structure since day one. And that has been a fuel to get her to her next level for everything.
And so the HATS is a very structured process. That's why I think for some people on the spectrum, structured jobs with a beginning, middle, and end are great. But for people that, it seems to me, this is just my take, is if they have autism and they went to college or high school and they got their degree and they did well, if they're that kind of learner, creative jobs might be better.
That's not how Abby learns. Abby's always been a hands-on, repetitive task kind of learner, right? And that's what we just focused on. No judgment, just whatever works for you is what you got to follow. That's right.
It's pretty great. And do you remember, I was reading comments to Abby. Abby doesn't read all the comments, and that's because of visual processing. You know, when you go on your device and you look at the tiny little letters? Yeah. That's really hard for her. In her IEP, in her individualized education plans at school, everything was double-spaced enlarged print.
So font size has to be 14 or 16 even. It's a visual processing issue. So I read the comments to her. And remember last night, how many comments? What were people saying about you? That was amazing. Yeah. And she was just like, it just still, she's taking it in. Do you know? And the hats are definitely a part of that. What's your favorite word? You like feeling, remember the word you always say?
I like feeling. Satisfied. And productive.
Oh my God. How come I was singing high in belt? Well, you've been working your butt off on singing. She sings almost every single day. Is that why it's happening? Yes. And I'm going to tell you this one quick story because Bob Garrett is her current vocal coach. And he's like a real coach. And my friend, Leslie Ann Warren, gave me his name as a vocal coach.
She's an actress, singer, Broadway gal, icon. And I was scared to call him as a parent because I thought he wouldn't understand Abby's autism. And he is a professional, has worked with people in movies and things like this. So I hesitated for almost a year before I called him. And then one day I said, Christine, you're standing in the way of her growth. Get out of the way.
Call him, give him the information, and let him decide if he's okay with her. And today, she is one of his favorites. Students. No way. Yes, and he's actually in studio helping Abby on her new song, which we can't talk about, which is going to be coming out probably later in the spring. Nice. Yeah, and he came back in studio and helped her.
So she records these sessions she does, and then she practices them on the day she doesn't actually have a lesson.
That would be amazing. That would be amazing. And so, so full circles. We've had so many beautiful full circle moments and we're, we're so grateful that, um, and we just hope that people are embracing autism and people with differences. My hope is that people start understanding that people aren't weird. Situations can be weird, but people aren't. They're different processors.
There's different types of social skills. There's different types of brains. Embrace them all. Be kind, you know? If you see someone struggling socially, be the one to make them feel okay.
Yeah. So, I mean, two things. One is, if you do have a child on the spectrum, I told all my son's friends... Ben's sister has autism. I took them all aside and said, Ben's sister has autism, so if she says repetitive things or she doesn't understand you, just treat her like any other kid. Say, I don't understand. What do you mean? Try to get her to talk, whatever else. She's not deaf.
I was very upfront because when I was in high school, I had a friend who had a sister who I didn't understand who had strange behaviors and would talk to herself and do all these things that no one understood. Who would talk to themselves? This is someone I went to high school with. And so people remain...
were afraid of the sister the kids were afraid I was afraid and I went to their house and I prayed that the sister didn't answer the door when I knocked because I wouldn't know what to say to her because I didn't know what it was and bingo she's born she's diagnosed and I'm sitting at my kitchen table thinking of my high school days and all of a sudden I said oh my god
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