help needed DS (asd) worried about santa/pressies

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DS is 8 and has autism, he does not like getting anything new, so pressies are a nightmare, he has written a letter to santa, this is what he has written on the envelope, Dear Santa, we do not like your reindeers, then the letter....
so dear santa we don't want any presents, so just give to the other boys and girls but not us, we don't want nothing for christmas, we don't like you , you must stay at the north pole with your elfs you are not allowed to come here,
love Elliot
p.s you can't come here,
then on the back of envelope he has put
W
H
Y
apparently it means we hate you.
now his sisters (also ASD) are getting excited about christmas and are talking about christmas a lot which is really upsetting him, also lots of people have asked him what santa is bringing him, this then ends with him smacking himself accross the head and getting really upset for ages, how do i tackle this, i did think about writing him a letter from santa like a social story, but no idea what to put, anyone any ideas?

I was going to ask if part of his anxiety was due to thinking that a strange man (Father Christmas) was going to sneak into his house in the middle of the night and leave things, but then if you tell him that there is no FC he way well tell his sisters and spoil it for them. Very tricky.

Hopefully someone else will have a better idea than me!

What about it you had a "designated Santa zone" where Santa was to come and leave the presents and Elliott could make lots of signs saying "Santa here only" or whatever and then the rest of the house could be a "Santa-free zone"?

santa free zone may work, thou he has already sellotaped the doors shut on our stove fire and i have taken loads of selotape off the letter box!, will try the santa free zone, then just have to deal with the pressies that he doesnt want and will throw in the bin/in the garden, oh the joys
you can see why a literal thinking autie boy may worry about santa, spend all your time telling them people cant break into your house and not to keep secrets from stranger folk, then you've got this rather weirdly dressed drink driving half cut gezzer flying across roof tops and deftly sliding down chimneys

Just a suggestion whether of any use or not i dont know.
Last year my friends brother who has aspergers acted very similar to your DS, he was adamant that he didn't want anything and that he hated father christmas then aged 10 with 4 younger brothers and sisters.
His mum came up with the idea of him writing to father christmas and asking him to leave presents for his b's and s's, but not to get anything for him but instead letting father christmas give pennies to mummy and daddy so that they could get him some presents.
It did work although he did keep telling his mum what he did and didn't want!!!!!!

Butty.xxx

thanks folks, i have told him santa will leave his sisters pressies by the back door as he is not allowed in the house, he was happy with that, then i told him that santa wasn't sending him any pressies but that mummy and daddy will get him some, it took him a while to process this, he then said , i want pressies from santa!!, so i think we will wait and see on the day what approach to use.