
How to Recover from Autistic Burnout
Here’s an overview of how to get out of Autistic burnout permanently, so you can get your life back — an autism-friendly life you are excited to live.
Here’s an overview of how to get out of Autistic burnout permanently, so you can get your life back — an autism-friendly life you are excited to live.
Trying to make your own version of an autistic-friendly life is a bit like finding your way through the deep dark woods.
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.
Friends can hurt each other, and that doesn’t have to be the end of it. However, sometimes it just may not work out.
How much gas money you’re supposed to give for a ride is tricky. There’s lots of factors and different views. Here’s some thoughts to help you figure it out.
It can be hard to convey what you need when requesting sensory accommodations. Here’s a framework for how.
If decision making is hard for you, here’s a technique to use body sensations as another source of information for decision making.
Trying to be normal as a way to be understood is a self-defeating. People who learn about you, will only learn about this pretend version of you.
It can be intimidating to ask someone to do something for you, yet we all have to do this. I’m going to discuss an approach I’ve pieced together on how.
Autistics and neurotypicals tend to have very different views on small talk. What’s going on from both sides?
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.
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.
For autistics, it makes sense why we tend to avoid social situations; the majority of our interactions can be uncomfortable. But we can’t lean into the discomfort until we stop shaming ourselves.
I used to despair that I was always a little (or a lot) different no matter how hard I tried to fit in. Figuring out I’m autistic explained why, but created a complicated relationship with that feeling of being broken.
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