From the author: I want to share my thoughts about people with special needs. How often we are frightened by what is incomprehensible to us, strange, we try to quickly distance ourselves from it, to make sure that There was less of this in our lives, or even better, none at all. This is especially true for people with “strange” behavior. What is happening to us - the world is becoming less predictable, more alarming, unsafe? Why are we so frightened by “strange” behavior? It so happens that in my work I meet children who have been diagnosed with early childhood autism. There is a lot of talk about this disease now, and thank God! Then meeting people with such characteristics is less frightening, they are a little more understandable for us, less strange, but there is still so little information about this (and about other diseases). When I meet them, I understand how they want the same communication, relationship to them, as to ordinary children. They also want to go on the slide with other children, run after a ball, kick it into a goal, play hide and seek and participate in even more activities that are so interesting to any child. But for them, children with special needs (and these are not only children with autism, there are many different diagnoses), this is much more difficult for them than for everyone else - they have less developed skills for this, they are afraid of everything new and incomprehensible even more than we are , they expect support and understanding, but the biggest difficulty is that they are rejected because of their “strangeness”, they do not try to see them as just a child, but see them as a disease. Which of us is actually autistic - we, who have developed communication skills and establishing contact, and can do this if we just want to, but are afraid of the “strangeness” and leave, or the child who has great difficulty establishing contact, but still tries to do this if he notices even a glimmer of hope for communication with another? Maybe if each of us, when encountering such “oddities,” copes with our desire to leave, tries to look at such a person differently, and even better, teaches our child to play with him, to be in communication, our world will become more understandable to everyone!