Cousin with AS coming tomorrow, help!

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My cousin Jessie has mild to severe AS, and I daresay I see so much of myself in the girl it hurts. She's a beautiful, special girl, but I'm clueless, as I know I'll be called on to entertain, and young NT girls are at times my pet hate, (5-11 yrs old) and this is paticulary true with my cousins from this family. They are, apart from Jessie, quite superficial and a tad "Princessy"

Jessie is 7, and I just don't know how to entertain! I'd much rather be having a cup of tea with my aunt and mother, but with 3 girls, Amy is 9/10, Jessie 7, Emily 6ish, and being the "funky, sassy, hair-dyed, fantastical, uber-cool, music nut, so therefore even more cool" older teenage girl, ( ) I know I'll have at least a shadow or two. But they're, (she in paticular,) all beyond Barbies and colouring in, and I do not want my room in perfect lined up order as soon as I leave the room. Help!

The only thing I can think of is try to find a preservation in common, even if it's an old one of yours, and go from there.

I've got all my make-up out, in my pink bedroom will be blasting Kelly Clarkson, and I have heaps of those string-y things that young girls make, (and that the Soma uses as a way to avoid stimming) so, fingers crossed, I'll be set. I will keep you posted on our (mis)adventures.

I was going to suggest bowling. I don't know that much about NT girls, but the autie girls I've known from my son's schools always enjoyed bowling. It's physical and requires only the most comfortable level of interaction. You just want to find a bowling alley that doesn't have too much going on in terms of unnecessary noise and commotion to avoid overload.

But, like I said, I have no idea how it would go with the NT girls.

Bowling, for me, is sensory overload, and with Jessie, oh boy.... This is a Aunty-Sue-coming-over-for-a-cuppa-coffee-oh-why-don't-you-bring-the-girls! thingamigigo, so I really can't.

No problem. I just thought of it because my boys, both of whom have autism (one, a very involved 12 year old) both enjoy it a great deal. We have to pick the bowling alley carefully to avoid sensory overload for the twelve year old. Fortunately, the nearest one works fine.

I have also noted that, at birthday parties, other autie kids (boys and girls) do well there too.

Thanks for your support, Sean, Litguy.

It was fine. Being a girl, I played Kelly Clarkson and painted her toenails, gave her a make-over with pink purple and blue eyeshadow, (relic from the past I tell you now) and gave her some of my "special" lipgloss. (50c from reject shop-I love my bargains!) She was in 7th heaven.