Samantha Cotterill

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 186: Author and Illustrator Samantha Cotterill Discusses Her New Book Series, Little Senses · 2 Dec 2019 podcast

And I wanted to,

pick a location that wasn't too obvious in the beginning in terms of like a mall or another area where you would expect it to be loud and overcrowded and cause sensory stimulation overload.

And it was kind of between an apple orchard and a beach, but I purposely here placed them in a beach that wasn't very crowded, but to him, it's very crowded.

And that was another important distinction for this series in particular was that I really wanted

to stress that in this situation, this beach may not be crowded at all to a neurotypical viewer, but for this child, this beach is very crowded and loud, and how does he cope?

But his father will give him tools to help him cope.

The third book, Can I Play Too?, is set in the classroom, and it's basically learning social cues on how to recognize when someone you're playing with

may need you to stop or maybe take a moment and think about how you're interacting and what tools you can gain to be able to foster like a really good relationship when it comes to playing side by side with a friend.

And the fourth book that I just written is going to be about a young girl having a couple of friends over for a birthday party.

and learning how to handle change when unexpected change occurs within the party setting.

So that one won't be coming out for another full year from March.

but that's basically the summation of the four.

Well, and the inspiration for this book was really, I'm, I live in the Northeast.

So in the fall with apple orchards galore, and we had gone with my teenage sons and my husband, the apple orchard.

And I,

I just wanted to get the heck out of there because I realized, oh my God, there's like these bees and I'm so paranoid with bees.

There's bees and there's apple cannon going off in the background and there's just people crowded trying to get the donuts.

And it was just so much going on.

And I realized in that moment, wow, I don't think anybody ever thinks of an apple orchard as a potentially sensory overload place.

And that's kind of what started the

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