01/11/2025
                                            My  teenage son is high functioning autistic.
We mananaged to get him a part time job with a freind that owns a pub inorder to help him feel more independent.
One of his traits is not being able to take situations and recall them to help him navigate the world.
He stole some crisps from the pub. We were motified as that's not how we bought him up and as I said the publican is a freind and was doing us a favour.
No matter what my husband and I said we did not feel that Alex understood the issue of stealing, infact he repeated just taking things from shops and family members. We believed he could not cope in the world ..
We created a book, of all the places you had to ask or pay for things to try and help him understand and as a point of reference ,but it did not help as he is so black and white in his thought process ...we forgot to list petrol stations for example...so in his mind that was ok.
Other a period of months this book became 4 four books as we desperately tried to include every conceivable situation. 
It failed be cause there was to many listing's and he forgot to read the book.
We took him to the amazing Ali at Ollieandhissuperpowers.
We explained the situation, our desire to find ways for him to cope in the real world and the books.
One session! 
And all she did was chuck our books in the bin and say to him
" one rule ...if it's not yours you can't take it"
His face lit up ...because he was desperately trying to get it right .
We have had no more stealing  , ( Ali also explained to us he did not understand what we called stealing) 
Now he see's Ali once amonth for more one liner one rule life instructions as situations occure to help him navigate the world.
We have had countless therapists over the years and nothing had helped him or us 
Enter Ali and her amazing Ollie model!!
I cannot recommend her and her teams approach highly enough. Every family should have access to an Ollie coach. Ali has changed our life's and given my beutiful boy  copping strategies so that he can have a life.
Thankyou Ali ,with all my heart.
Evelyn k.