AUTISM AND SELF INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR
Self-injurious behavior gets discussed a lot – but it’s not often that we hear from it from a lived experience. Lets change that and break the stigma!
AUTISM AND RULES
Five things about rules and autistic people that can serve to creating a more autistic-friendly approach to rule-making and rule-teaching.
WORTHLESS
Worthless. I am worthless. Worth less. It’s not just a feeling I am giving a name to. It’s a painful, lifelong reality I am speaking truth to.
15 TIPS FOR SURVIVING THE SUMMER HEAT
Nobody ever taught me how to make the summer heat more bearable. I had to learn over years of suffering. Here are my 15 tips for surviving the summer heat, so that others don’t suffer as I did.
BOLTING – AUTISTIC SUDDEN FLIGHT EXPLAINED
Bolting – the sudden flight phenomenon in autistic people explained from lived experience and without harmful behaviorist approaches.
THE FLOATING NOTHINGNESS. LIFE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL TOPOGRAPHICAL DISORIENTATION
What is it like when “I don’t have a sense of direction.” isn’t just a half-joking sentiment, but the disability Developmental Topographical Disorientation?
SELECTIVE MUTISM HELL
Sharing one very personal experience from my Selective Mutism hell, aka school.
AUTISM SELF-DIAGNOSIS…YAY OR NAY?
What is self-diagnosis? What is self-diagnosis not? Why do some people support it, and others oppose it? Should we accept autism self-diagnosis or not? Why?