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My daughter is autistic and a teenager. She's finally getting old enough to grasp the concepts of holidays and be interested in participating. She loves SpongeBob, so of course picked out this design. She hated cleaning out the insides, mainly the smell. She tried for about 10 seconds then went and threw up, so I took care of that. Once I showed her how to do the outlines by poking through the paper, she did most of the rest. I helped cut some of the finer details out, but she did about 90% of the cutting. She was super proud of it and really enjoyed putting it out on the front porch.

It's really nice to see her progressing and enjoying kid things.

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[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

She hit the terrifying look well, imagine walking down a dark alleyway and you see those eyes and that grin running at you!