10 THINGS PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW [EN+DE]
NO. 1 – AUTISM IS NOT A DISEASE Autism is not a disease, disorder, epidemic, tragedy, or mental illness. It is not caused by vaccines or bad parenting. It is a neurological phenomenon with a variety of still unclear possible causes both genetic and environmental. Autism doesn’t make your child sick, wrong, or broken. There […]
AUTISTIC LONELINESS – SOCIAL ISOLATION [EN+DE]
HOW I BECAME LONELY When I was little being friends with someone meant having play dates and doing things together. Friendship and social interaction were so simple as a child. The rules were clear and they and everything else were discussed and negotiated openly, honestly. Then the rules of social interaction changed. As I grew […]
DEVELOPING BETTER AUTISM LANGUAGE [EN+DE]
DEVELOPING BETTER AUTISM LANGUAGE Language has power. It reflects our attitude towards the things we speak about. It shapes our perception of reality and in turn commonly used language shapes our actual reality. Most language commonly used in the autism community is highly pathologized. It paints autism as a disorder. Everything is “a deficit”, “inappropriate”, […]
THE AUTISTIC DILEMMA – FUNCTIONING [EN+DE]
TOO AUTISTIC OR NOT AUTISTIC ENOUGH FALSELY LABELING FUNCTIONING I am going to introduce you to a concept I have been thinking about a lot recently related to functioning labels. I call it “The Autistic Dilemma” and it describes following: OTHER PEOPLE DECLARE AUTISTIC PEOPLE EITHER TOO AUTISTIC OR NOT AUTISTIC ENOUGH AND EITHER WAY […]
REVIEW EAR DEFENDERS – 3M PELTOR X5A [EN+DE]
PELTOR X5A EAR DEFENDERS – SPECIFICATIONS As per the item packaging I received. MODEL NAME: 3M PELTOR X5A PRICE: 30 EUR (34 $) NOISE REDUCTION: 37 dB (Highs 37 dB, Mids 35 dB, Lows 27 dB) WEIGHT: 352 g (12.42 oz) COLORS: grey, black, off-white MATERIAL: No natural latex, non-conductive HYGIENE: Ear cushions and foam […]
SOCIALIZING WHILE AUTISTIC – HOW TO SURVIVE [EN+DE]
SOCIALIZING IS EXHAUSTING WHEN YOU ARE AUTISTIC Involuntary socializing is utterly draining. But even voluntary socializing is tiresome. And even when you are having fun, it can still leave you completely depleted. For most of us it can’t be completely avoided though so we need to figure out how to at least survive social occasions. […]
SELECTIVE MUTISM IS NOT NON VERBAL AUTISM [EN+DE]
Written for Selective Mutism Awareness Month 2018 October is Selective Mutism Awareness Month. And awareness is much needed. Selective Mutism is still widely overlooked, misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and the term used wrongly for other conditions. Especially in the autism community autistic non-verbal periods are often falsely called Selective Mutism. So let’s take a look at both! […]
MASKING AND PASSING – WHAT IT IS, WHY IT’S BAD [EN+DE]
WHAT MASKING IS AND WHY IT EXISTS Masking means suppressing everything about yourself that is visibly autistic to appear non-autistic. Appearing to be non-autistic is what we call “passing” – it’s short for “passing as non-autistic”. ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I prefer to use the term “Camouflaging” instead of masking. “Masking” implies putting a mask […]
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