Mastering One Social Expectation Doesn't Mean Your Autistic Loved One Will Suddenly Know Them All vocal.media/families/mas... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #Neurodivergent

Please Be Very Specific When Making a Request of An Autistic vocal.media/families/ple... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent #Neurodivergent

“What Did I Do Wrong?” - A Book That Breaks the Traumatic Cycle of Communication Misunderstandings Between Autistic and Neurotypical People vocal.media/families/wha... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent #Neurodivergent

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Why Your Autistic Loved One Doesn’t Pick Up the Phone vocal.media/families/why... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent #Neurodivergent

Your Autistic Loved One Doesn’t Know What You’re Reacting To, and It’s Causing Trauma vocal.media/families/you... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent #Neurodivergent

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7 Natural Autistic Traits You’re Mistaking for Arrogance vocal.media/humans/7-nat... #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent #Neurodivergent

Detroit style pizza existed decades ago. People had Autism decades ago. ADHD was a thing decades ago. YOU WERE JUST A VERY UNAWARE CHILD DECADES AGO

#NewYear #TaylorSwift #Meme

Wrote and published my second book! www.thearticulateautistic.com/before-you-f...

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The Expert Ally explains why mainstream school is often a traumatizing experience for autistic children, and how to make it easier. www.thearticulateautistic.com/why-mainstre... #Autism #Autistic #AutismMom #AutismDad #AutismParent #Neurodivergent

Is your autistic loved one purposefully not reciprocating in conversations with you, or is something getting lost in translation? (Click the link to find out more) www.thearticulateautistic.com/why-your-aut... #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Autistic people communicate differently from their neurotypical counterparts. Here's why career advancement should not depend on socializing (Click the link below to read the full article) www.thearticulateautistic.com/why-autistic... #Autism #Business #Career #Job

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Autistic Masking isn’t lying. It’s what you build when the world teaches you that being yourself isn’t safe. Unmasking isn’t tearing that down overnight. It’s slowly learning where you no longer need the armour.

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The Functional Purpose of Autistic Questions - FREE eBook Download "Why do autistic people ask so many questions??" They may feel frustrating, but they serve a functional purpose! Click the link below to learn more! www.thearticulateautistic.com/the-function... #AutismMom #ActuallyAutistic

Why Autistic People Often Find Socializing With Neurotypical People Challenging Why do autistic people seem to have so many socializing challenges? Glad you asked! Here are common reasons we struggle in social settings. www.thearticulateautistic.com/why-autistic... #Autism #ActuallyAutistic

This!

’Autistic people notice what others miss because our cognition is tuned to pattern, discrepancy, and accumulation.’ This describes my brain to a T. It gives me pause, and yet I’m sociable and shades of grey.

It sucks this close to the finish line, but something is up with my mental health (leaning toward autistic burnout right now), so I'm taking a couple weeks off from writing. I'll still be here talking about my WIPs and stuff, but actual progress is on hold until the New Year. #WritingCommunity

people talk about autistic people having a problem with their "communication style" but really we have to overcome a hurdle of everyone we meet getting INSTANT bad vibes off us. Communication is impossible no matter the style in those situations.

Search underway in North Carolina for a missing girl with autism #nationalnews

8 Sensory Experiences That May Trigger Your Autistic Loved One’s Fight-or-Flight Response Does your autistic loved one shy away from touch? Scream unexpectedly? Break into tears often? In this article, I explain what's happening. www.thearticulateautistic.com/8-sensory-ex... #ActuallyAutistic

How Teaching Like a GPS Could Help Improve Neurodivergent Learning If you're wondering how you can help a #neurodivergent person learn, you may benefit from using The GPS Method. (Click the link below to read the full article.)

This might be construed as a tedious 'awareness raising' thread, but Xmas can be a decidedly mixed bag for autistic & ADHD children & adults. The change in routines, the amped-up sensory stimuli, the flood of semi mandatory social gatherings, the unusual food, the unpredictability around gifts...

When an Autistic Employee Sounds Like a “Know-It-All”, What May Be Happening (and How to Respond) Does your autistic employee seem rude, combative, or smug? Their intentions are often the opposite! www.thearticulateautistic.com/when-an-auti... #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Good morning autistic comrades. You’re not slow. You’re paced. The world just keeps confusing speed with worth.

#NewArticle Have you ever asked someone a question and they assumed you were, well, doing something else? Rachael the Beloved wrote this up in order to share HER experience, and a very specific learning she did at some point. #AutisticFamily #AuDHD #AutisticLife autisticphd.com/theblog/auti...

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Good morning autistic comrades Your needs didn’t get bigger. Your capacity got used up.

As an autistic who has completely different ideas of Christmas fun & has a house who rarely engages with the Christmas expectations. We surprising enjoy Xmas with no santa, rarely have dinners, with minimal decoration, same foods, books, long naps & binge watching shows we love. Equally Xmas Vibe.

You are not “hard to understand” You’re just used to people who expect performance instead of presence. They don’t understand autistic presence. Find the ones who do. This is the work.

One of the greatest gifts as a autistic my parents ever gave me was the expectation I didn't need to participate in anything if I didn't want to. Surprisingly made me participate in a awful lot of stuff. The ability to say no and feel normal about it is a very very important one.

One paradox with autism and employment is that less autism-friendly jobs are actually easier for autistic people to obtain. What I mean is that it is easier to get a job in fast food rather than programming even though programming for me aligns with my strengths.

Relatable. lol! #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Anxiety #Memes

Being autistic is having the same bandwidth as everyone else (mental capacity, physical capacity, hours in the day), but having to work 2, 3, even 4x as hard to do things that most others can do without even trying.

Autistic people online can help give you the langauge that you never had before. And that’s powerful. At the same time, others cannot solve your issues and burnout. At best, others can help support and give tools. But the work is always on us alone.

You know something? My daughter - my Autistic, ADHD, imaginative, funny, kind, gentle, empathetic, inquisitive, clever, creative daughter - is freaking amazing. That's it. That's the skeet.

"Sometimes it takes losing yourself to find yourself." #Quotes #Mindfulness

It is such a massive injustice that medical professions, universities, schools, governments, psychologists and more are allowed to just ignore the fact that autistic people have been calling out ABA as abusive for decades. No intervention largely opposed by those subjected to it deserves to exist.

Autism can present as consistent confusion on what others perceive as “common knowledge” or something that “everyone knows” just fyi Misinterpreting meaning, misunderstanding context, or making {incorrect}connections and ‘leaping’ with it socially are all pretty common when it comes to autism

It’s my wife except she didn’t have time to reply right away, but by the time she did it was already marked read and ADHD had stolen the task out of her brain.

How it feels when someone I really, really like tells me to stop masking my AuDHD because they want to “know the real me”

How many #actuallyautistic people relate to these? www.thearticulateautistic.com/8-neurotypic...

Girls don’t “outgrow” masking — they just burn out quietly 💛 Calm isn’t coping. It’s survival. #MaskingInGirls #NeurodivergentWomen #InvisibleAutism #LateIdentifiedND #MentalHealthAwareness 👇 Anyone else learn to be “fine” all the time?