Category: Internal Awareness

Do You Not Know What You Need?

Do you find it difficult to answer questions like, “what do you want?” or “what do you need?” Here’s my take on what’s going on.

How to Start Investigating Your Sensory Differences

Do you want to get better at figuring out your sensory differences, to understand your own body better? Here’s a few ideas on how to get started.

How to Use Body Signals to Make Better Decisions

If decision making is hard for you, here’s a technique to use body sensations as another source of information for decision making.

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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Your Path to a Life You Love: Deepen Your Personal Sensory Awareness

Almost all autistics have a more intense sensory experience of the world than the majority of people. Understanding what that means for you gives you power.

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This is Why Honesty Really is the Best Policy

We are socialized not to complain, but sometimes that means not telling people what we need. I have been getting better at saying what I need, and finding out that people can help.

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After trying a range of activities to see how each made your body feel, did you notice anything unexpected? Did some that you associate with relaxing not actually have that relaxing effect? Here’s why.

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Recognizing Stress is Complicated When You Can’t Tell What Your Body Feels

How do you figure out where your kid’s stress is coming from, when they aren’t even sure of what they are feeling?

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On Autistic Stress

Autistics get stressed out by a lot more things than most people, and what stresses us, and why, is often surprising to others. Here’s the critical first step to helping.