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Mental health and trauma

The Autistic Experience of Sensory Overwhelm, Meltdowns, and Shutdowns

2019-12-13
By: Embrace ASD
On: December 13, 2019
In: Autism, Living life, Mental health and trauma, Perception, Self-Help
With: 2 Comments
An autistic exploration and breakdown of how sensory overload, meltdowns, and shutdowns feel in the moment and after the fact.
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Issues with Addiction Advocacy in the Autistic Community

2019-12-13
By: David Gray-Hammond
On: December 13, 2019
In: Activism, Autism, Autistic community, Experiences, Living life, Mental health and trauma
With: 2 Comments
Autistic people are often overlooked when it comes to addiction, as if they are too rule-oriented or childlike to become addicted. It's time for that to change.

Depressive Realism

2019-12-07
By: nihilivonne
On: December 7, 2019
In: Autism, Experiences, Mental health and trauma
With: 5 Comments
For me, at least, this, together with the accumulated knowledge, sometimes leads to a deep sadness about the transience of everything that exists and the subjectivity of all our perceptions, assessments and attributions of meaning.
Chalk drawing of a child huddled up with a thought bubble that reads “stop bullying”

The Long Term Impact of Bullying

2019-11-11
By: Mike Wise
On: November 11, 2019
In: Autism, Bullying and abuse, Education, Mental health and trauma
With: 8 Comments
Mike Wise talks about his experience as being fully autistic but before anyone who was speaking could be diagnosed that way. Bullying was treated as a rite of passage and empowered, even by his teachers.

Autistic Meltdowns: From the Inside

2019-10-29
By: Mike Wise
On: October 29, 2019
In: Autism, Experiences, Mental health and trauma, Self-Help
With: 6 Comments

It wasn’t a bad day, in fact it was pretty good.  I had worked a little overtime and was bringing some dinner home to my wife.

… Read more “Autistic Meltdowns: From the Inside”

Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical Narrative

2019-10-29
By: Katelyn
On: October 29, 2019
In: Autism, Education, Experiences, Mental health and trauma
With: 4 Comments
Anxious people don’t need to be thrown into the metaphorical lion’s den to be cured of their anxiety. What we do need is to be listened to, respected, cared for and about...

Poetry: Four AM Thoughts

2019-10-11
By: avouleance
On: October 11, 2019
In: Autism, Mental health and trauma, Poetry
With: 1 Comment

You’d think the world were ending.
With how null-coloured cracks rack the sky.
And razor winds shred the upside down sea overhead,
Into shards of spray.

… Read more “Poetry: Four AM Thoughts”

Why I’m Not a High-Functioning Autistic

2019-10-06
By: Emily Volz
On: October 6, 2019
In: Autism, Careers, Education, Functioning labels, Gender and LGBTQIA, Identity, Justice, Masking, Mental health and trauma, Myths
With: 15 Comments
"We have now arrived at the ultimate falsehood of high-functioning autism: what this label really means is that you have high outside functioning.  I am excellent at pretending to be someone I am not."

Autism: Healing from Trauma in Nature

2019-10-05
By: Andrew Wolfheart Sanchez
On: October 5, 2019
In: Autism, Mental health and trauma, Parenting, Philosophy
With: 4 Comments
Wolfheart Sanchez connects to nature as a way to reset his sensory systems and find peace and harmony against the familiar and unassuming expanse of nature.
Drawing of a black-and-white brain with a rainbow butterfly landing on it making it colorful

My Autism Diagnosis at Age 25

2019-09-29
By: Rachel Strickland
On: September 29, 2019
In: Autism, Diagnostics, Experiences, Identity, Mental health and trauma
With: 7 Comments
I've always known that something was different about me. And not in the I’m-growing-up-and-everyone’s-weird kind of way, either. It’s also very possible — no, very probable — that the people close to me picked up on it, too.

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