I'm wondering how I can make Christmas feel special throughout the day/period, with an autistic/ADHD daughter. She's not excited by the things I was as a child, like the Xmas eve carol service, walking around to look at the lights, Christmas tree in Trafalgar square. We can't have presents under a tree in the build up, as she can't cope with waiting. She doesn't like watching films, or nice christmassy TV shows, like the snowman etc. although I will take her to the carol service because I love it, she won't feel the magic of it. We've got the elf but she gets angry at him a lot, although I make sure he doesn't do anything naughty- she doesn't like him touching our things.
It's only the two of us as well, so once she's opened all her presents in the AM, I'm not sure what else we can do to make it feel special and different to the rest of the year.
Just wondering what other autistic children like doing?