We empower autistic teens to own their own narrative as autistic people in the world.
Winter Program Starts February 2024
Our 8 week group encourages self confidence, leadership skills, social skills and self advocacy all while having fun through creativity, conversation and games.
The group will create a short one act play infused with the spoken word about their strengths and challenges with autism. The play will be performed at the end of the program, in front of family and friends.
The group will participate in group conversation and games.
Masking. Pretending. Sensory issues. Try to fit in. Shame.
When autistic kids are diagnosed at a young age, the therapies begin. Speech therapy. Occupational therapy. Social skills. They’re being squeezed into a mold practically every day whether at school or in some type of therapy. It’s like they’re being squeezed from a toothpaste tube trying to make them come out looking like everyone else. The truth is they’re not like everyone else, and that’s ok. And it’s not to say that they don’t need help in certain areas (as does everyone) but it’s important that they be accepted for who they are and this begins with learning to accept themselves as autistic.
And this is why we started The Sycamore Gig. It’s okay to be neurodiverse…to have a brain difference such as autism. As they grow and enter adulthood they are the experts of autism.
Autism is a brain difference.
At The Sycamore Gig autism isn’t the purple elephant in the room. We talk about it. Autistic kids of today are tomorrow’s experts of autism because they’re the ones living with autistic brains.