Please help ASD adult ideas

[Doyouknowdanieltiger]

Hi there looking for some suggestions for my DD who is 18 and ASD.

Currently have got:

Clickeez keyboard
Lego flowers
Weekend bag for sleepovers at nanas
Colouring pencils

Im really stuck (have asked!)

Shes into fidget toys but we have so many!
Loves drawing

Not into make up, jewelery, clothes etc

Any help appreciated!

Bath bombs? Or glow sticks for a glow bath (still v popular with my ASD 16 yr old)

Black paper and metallic pens/pencils

Sweary colouring book

Because she is into Lego and drawing, how would she feel about taking up a new craft? You can get cross stitch or crochet sets from Hobby Craft / T K Maxx. You could get her a new sketch pad, stickers, nice smelling body wash and body butter (bath and body works or lush), what about tickets to go somewhere or plan a day out together (does she like musicals, an art gallery, a trip to a restaurant she wants to try?)

Example of stickers I mean:
www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=stickers%20aesthetic%20teen&ref=search_bar

How about ScrawlrBox? Either a subscription or one of their previous boxes. They send you some pens, paints, pencils, brushes, paper and some inspiration. It's great. I buy an odd box occasionally. Scrawlrbox
They often send interesting texture or colour paper which is fun.
How about a book on drawing with ideas to try.

Check here whether you can get a colouring book for where you live
Colour your Streets ( link was v long)

Bop It toy
Tetris lamp or puzzles
Lava lamp
Rainbow projector
Spiral bracelet
Fidget ring
Craft box/ tool box filled with pens and materials
Rainbow scratch art
Hanging photo pocket for her room ( to fill with favourite photos, quotes, bands etc)
Bean bag
Oodie/ Slanket
Suspended garden chair or flat circular net swing

Good sites to browse Truffle Shuffle, Temptation gifts, Grindstore, Rex London. Baker Ross

If she likes fidget toys, maybe look for something more grown up which she can use more discreetly when out. Not that something is wrong with a fidget toy but DD found it easier playing with her rings or a necklace, bracelet as it looks more "normal". I had to get stronger chains and clasps though.

DD also has some polished stones in her pocket or plays with a keyring, we got a metal with some texture and some fabric ones.

Is she into anything soft and cuddly? A weighted animal?

An art box with a mix of colouring in books, pens/pencils, canvases, sketch books.

Any trip/event she would like to go to?

Dd loves her heated throw and her oodies and fluffy socks. She likes board games but not too complicated Qwirkle and Rummikub are hits. She likes her Switch so I can usually get her a game and she likes bath bombs so usually buy from Lush. She likes crafts so I sometimes buy stuff for that threads, wool and fat quarters if I see a bundle she will like.

What about a weighted blanket for her to snuggle under if that meets her sensory needs. Or a projector to out patterns/night sky/whatever in her ceiling? My ASD daughter loves both of these items xx

The autistic teen girls in my family like the following: oodies or similar fluffy super soft hoody, weighted blankets and weighted teddies, hot water bottles with fluffy covers, Jelly cats, things to do with the Nightmare Before Christmas for some reason, adult colouring books and crayons, cute kawaii stuff of the sort found in Kenji and Mini Sou.

Posca pens!

Does she do the thing where she decides she can master any skill and just dive right in? I’m now a woodworker! Now I’m into bookbinding. Today I’m learning crochet.

Thank you all for your suggestions!

Some great drawing gift ideas thank you, also some more grown up fidget jewelry is a good idea, i didn't know such a thing existed!

Graphics tablet? £69 at Argos https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8365204?utm_custom6=LIA&deeplink=true&cmpid=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59157|acid:534-693-8244|cid:20296143496|agid:|tid:|crid:|nw:x|rnd:5173704629004823150|dvc:c|adp:|mt:|loc:9045159&utm_custom1=&utm_custom2=534-693-8244&GPDP=true

Or how about some Concert tickets? Don't know what she might be in to, but in the next six months she could go to Bananrama, Henge, Nothing but Thieves, Don McLean or The War of the Worlds Concert Experience...would any of those appeal?

Tactile sensitivity is often an issue for ASD, so maybe a supersoft oodie and/or blanket and soft socks. She's heading towards adulthood, so you could start buying her some nice things for her room, such as a very soft glow lamp - a salt lamp or one in the shape of a shell or animal she likes - Wayfair and Dunelm have some gorgeous ones. Or LED lights or those ones that cast images on the ceiling.

And maybe some other things for her room like those crystals you hang in windows to create rainbow prisms.

Does she like manga? You can get how to draw manga books which enchanted ASD DS in his teens. And maybe some other art materials - there are pens that are like felt tips but if you dip the tip in water, they become watercolour brushes.

Oh yes, all that Japanese cute stuff. DS is still into that in his mid twenties.

How did you get into book binding? I just got into making pages for books and I'm making a rather sentimental christmas present for someone I love and just so happen to be in the market for learning book binding?

My workplace is strange and we have a club that offered a class. You don’t have to do expensive equipment to start. The basic concept is sewing the paper folios by hand. Then building the cover.

with everything online at this point, I would recommend YouTube. It’s my current source for learning whatever strikes my fancy.

My DD is also 18.
Autistic teens may not all like the same things, but hopefully some of the suggestions below might be liked by your DD.

Warm socks - my DD wears them till they wear out.
Weighted blanket - my DD wasn't keen at first but now really likes it.
My DD has the diffuser below, she asked for Himalayan salt and didn't want colour changing lights.
https://amzn.eu/d/06WmrORz
Water bottle with items of day if she forgets to drink
Love LED sign - my DD has purple light so it isn't a bright LED
Teddy bear high back cuddle cushion
Perfume - my DD is lucky on what scents she likes
Bean bag, weighted animal, lava lamp, fairy lights
Travel mug
Fake small pot plants
Reed defuser
Jelly cats - linked to something she likes. My daughter likes hot chocolate and got the marshmallow ones for her birthday.
Journal book
Paint by numbers - you can get different levels
Subscription
Day out/experience day
Is she into a certain flavour type of drink? My DD has a thing for chair latte so I buy her a flavoured one in her stocking each year from Lidl. She also has a milk frother.