
Healthy Communication is Like Safe Driving
The things that drivers do to stay safe and keep others safe, are the same types of things that go on in healthy relationships.
The things that drivers do to stay safe and keep others safe, are the same types of things that go on in healthy relationships.
There are many parts to the internal work that we do to get reasonably comfortable with people. Here are some common ones.
Do you have conflicting thoughts about the idea that self-acceptance can actually work as a way to have better relationships?
Self-acceptance is a nice ideal, but how does it practically get you friends?
Strategies to increase socializing by dealing with the anxiety, or improving social skills, aren’t bad ideas, but they produce limited, short-term results. Here are two reasons why.
A brief, imaginary dip into what “being reasonably comfortable around people” practically looks like.
If your default mode is that people are scary, mean, and tiring, but you still long for good friendships and better relationships, I get that. I’ve been there. And there is hope.
This phrase has helped me gradually shift from a negative outlook on sensory issues, socializing, and myself, to a tendency toward looking for the good.
There are good reasons why job interviews are such strange experiences. Here are a few.
I talk a lot about body feelings, like noticing your hands. But what does that have to do with making friends?
Socializing isn’t primarily about social skills. In fact, that’s the smallest factor, and the last thing to work on.
Social skills can be learned. Yes, even by autistic people. But they aren’t often taught to us autistics in the way that autistics learn them.
A few thoughts on what society tells us about success and successful people, and how the truth may be different when you are neurodiverse.
People react to different amounts of sensory input, but even when it’s only a little, it’s not made up.
I find it a lot easier to do things when I know why they matter, and then I don’t complain about them (nearly as much).
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