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I was watching a break from play in the World Championship Snooker when something set me off thinking about communication, passion and autism.

A child came into the practice room, with her father and Hazel Irvine. Whilst she was running around the snooker table, setting up shots and playing them, totally engrossed in her own world, obviously loving it, her father was being interviewed.

What he said did not surprise me. He said how she was totally hooked on snooker having seen a YouTube video of Ronnie O’Sullivan doing a 147 maximum break. And copying all the shots and actions. So they bought her a snooker table.

This is not the point of this post. It is what the father said and I was suspecting. She was autistic. This video set off a deep passion.  She was loving meeting her heroes there, I’m sure she will never forget that day.

As for communication, it mattered not that her father did the talking, she was communicating with her actions.

The message? Actions can communicate more than words, especially for autistic people, some of whom do not speak and others can struggle. This does not make them any less or mean they cannot communicate,  just that communication can be different.

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