I really enjoy travel and I know that I'm not alone in that regard. I know many autistics who love to travel. My next two posts will cover travelling with autism, this one will focus on travelling with autistic children and the next will focus on travelling as an autistic teen or adult. While all travel is difficult, in this series I'm particularly thinking of bigger holidays. Travelling with children is always difficult but travelling with autistic children presents its own set of problems. Autistic people struggle with change and it's often hard to describe to your children, the intense changes that travel will bring. You have to be ready to deal with issues "on the fly" and with limited time and limited resources. After all, you can't take everything with you on your trips and stopping or slowing down midway through your holiday may not be an option. There are three key stages to travelling with autistic children. Preparing for the journey - which include...