Autism Resource #2: Use a fear chart for overcoming fears.

For older kids (5 years +) writing down their fears and comparing them to reality can help them to manage them. Jed Baker has an example of a fear chart in the in February-April 2016 Edition of Autism and Asperger’s Digest. My ASD child is afraid of automatic toilets. My child did not even want to go to places that had automatic toilets (ie the shopping mall). We wrote out a fear chart together with my child contributing to the content (see example). It is helpful to write it out so you can refer to it. While my child still won’t go anywhere near an automatic toilet at least we can visit the mall and know that automatic toilets don’t have legs, and can’t come after you.


Baker, J. Overcoming fear and anxiety in children and teens. Autism Asperger’s Digest 2016 February-April: 14-17