Autism Chrysalis

Category: Autism

The 5 Most Overlooked (and Common) Autistic Stressors

Here are five things that are so common in our modern lifestyle, that we often don’t have a chance to experience life without them, so we don’t see how much they affect us.

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Thoughts on Theory of Mind

Theory of Mind is often pointed out as an autistic deficit, but is it really that? Is something else going on? And is it just autistics that find this challenging?

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Your Path to a Life You Love: Capitalize on Your Strengths

There are some great things about an Autistic brain that can get overlooked if you focus only on the things that are more difficult.

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Your Path to a Life You Love: Identify and Remove Hidden Barriers

Why is it that strategies to fix the obvious challenges often don’t work? It’s usually because they don’t get at what’s really going on beneath the surface.

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Happy Autism Diagnosis Day!

Spectrum identification was absolutely, hands down, no holds barred, the best thing that has happened in my life.

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A Few Thoughts on Labels

There’s a lot of controversy around labels. Some people love them, some hate them. I’m somewhere in the middle.

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A Challenging Behavior Vanishes

I have long maintained that behavior is a symptom. A recent revelation in my own life led to my own challenging behavior instantly vanishing, once I got to the root of the issue.