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Stress for Autistics
- Do you find that your stress doesn’t come and go the way it seems to for other people — but instead it lives in your body as a baseline, occasionally spiking into something you can’t manage?
- Have you removed every stressor and responsibility possible, and made your life so small, and are still struggling to hold your head above water — while people with objectively more on their plates seem to handle it with no sweat?
- Do small things land with a weight that seems out of proportion — a change in plans, an unexpected noise, a conversation that didn’t go the way you expected — and does the relentless accumulation of those things take you down in a way that’s hard to explain to anyone?
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Accountability partners is a popular concept, designed to keep us accountable to someone else in order to create motivation to get things done, but I have a different opinion.
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When going through a tough time, it’s easy to feel like it’s the end of everything, but this isn’t the end of your story.
Why You Can’t Get Your Needs Met By Setting Boundaries
Most people don’t understand this one thing when they try to set boundaries. But getting good at this can improve both how you get your needs met, and your relationships.
Is it rude for Autistics to spend holidays in their room?
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I thought I might talk you through what I do to calm myself down, to see the anti-anxiety practices I teach in action.
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.
Why Trying Harder Backfires
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.
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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