
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?
How do you figure out where your kid’s stress is coming from, when they aren’t even sure of what they are feeling?
Stimming is both a physical expression of stress—either bad stress or good stress—and it’s a way to help us calm down.
We want to raise kids to be independent, but when they’re fighting you at every turn, it’s so easy to succumb to the seduction of a child who’ll just do what you tell them.
Penny tries to help Bernadette go into labor, but Bernadette gets stuck and what happens next it’s so reminiscent of my life.
I’m so glad you want to help spread autism acceptance. The best way you can help us is, as much as possible, to raise up our voices.
Labels and diagnoses have their use, but they also have some significant downsides. What if there were an alternative?
I tried for so long to be normal. And it drove me nuts and burned me out multiple times. It’s not only an unreachable goal, bit it turns out it’s not really the goal that I thought it was, after all.
I hear a lot of questions from parents and professionals on how to motivate autistic children. But motivation itself isn’t the issue.
Non-speaking autism is often misunderstood as an intellectual disability. I think something very different is going on.
Non-speaking autism is often misunderstood as an intellectual disability. I think something very different is going on.
Social skills can be learned. Yes, even by autistic people. But they aren’t often taught to us autistics in the way that autistics learn them.
When your senses tell you that everything hurts, even home can be a minefield. Here’s some tips to help your sensory defensive child be happier in your home.
Have you heard the saying, “eat the worst first and save the best for last”? I think it’s fundamentally flawed. Here’s why, and what I’ve found works better.
It’s so easy to become paralyzed by anxiety around thoughts of all the things wrong in the world. Here’s my method of getting free enough to do something to make the world a little bit better.
I want to talk a bit about the difference between accepting what is and resigning oneself to what is.
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