Now that the present giving season is basically over.. don't forget that handy parents can lower the volume of a lot of kids toys by simply adding a resistor inline to the internal speaker. Here's a picture of me performing a volumectomy of my own. In this case, 68Ω did the trick.

Useful for everyone comfortable with a soldering iron. Maybe a solution for some of those #ActuallyAustistic care givers out there too.

@actuallyautistic

Sometimes, you just get hit in the face with such a big 'huh' coincidence, that it forces one to take a moment, and reframe the day at a minimum. My #autism wasn't discovered/identified/dx'd until my daughter was dx'd as #AuDHD, and her struggles so closely resembled mine. I understand this is common, for parents, as autism was way way less understood back when we were kids, even less than it's understood now, for us older folx. Anyways, when I was 18, I got my first tattoo. Autism wasn't spoken about back then, and when it was, it was frequently conflated with, or sometimes considered adjacent to down syndrome, I had no idea at the time of the power this symbol would come to hold for me now. The current infinity symbol didn't exist as representative. I will just consider myself ahead of the #ActuallyAutistic curve.