Autism Advocate

Buying and wearing clothing is a huge source of stress in the autism community.  It's more than wanting to wear clothes that feel good - trying to force an autistic person with sensory issues to wear triggering clothing feels about as painful as stepping on a tac with your bare feet.

In this episode, I talk about these struggles with clothing, what that looks like for me, and a few solutions I've found to help ease the struggles.

In this episode I talk about gender nonconformity, how it is more prevelant in the autistic community.

Neurodivergent people are a lot more likely to be trans, nonbinary, and GNC.  This adds an extra layer of vulnerability on top of being autistic that is rarely talked about or considered.

In this episode, I explain how it feels to dissociate - aka shutdown - how responding verbally is very difficult when I'm in the middle of a shutdown, and the wide variety of triggers that cause it along with strange feelings that go along with it.

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There are many differences between how autistics socialize versus NTs.  I talk about some of these differences in today's podcast.

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Being autistic has so many strengths, we have a unique ability to be ourselves unequivocally without conforming to a social norm.

Who you are is a beautiful person! You ARE worthy of love and all the joy in the world.

One act of kindness can go such a long way.

Being autistic in itself comes with a sense of freedom - freedom of expression without concern of judgements.  And anyone can experience this freedom if they choose to align with themselves instead of doing what everyone else does out of fear.

"The world is a beautiful place! The more you can recognize the beautiful aspects of your world, the more of them you attract into your life.... and I firmly believe these patterns underlying everything reveal to us a reality none of us can fully perceive"

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In this episode, I explain how and why executive dysfunction is so prevalent in autism, and I share my experiences with it.

Neurotypicals can struggle with executive dysfunction too - but autism significantly increases the likelihood of some kind of executive dysfunction because of a combination of sensory issues (likely related to the insula and amygdala connections in the brain), combined with a worse short term memory.

Every day I look for ways to either improve my short term memory or find workarounds for it.

Sensory issues are often easier to solve with accommodations than immediately forgetting whatever I was doing two minutes ago.

I find that the best ways to overcome struggling are to first identify WHAT you are struggling with, then identify WHY you are struggling with it.  And instead of pretending to be okay - remember that you CAN and SHOULD ask for help and accommodations when you need them.

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This episode and future episodes will help you understand yourself at a deeper level & learn how to unequivocally be YOU without apology. :)

In this episode, I talk about the struggles that autistic people deal with throughout our lives.

Why is it important to you, to know who you are?

I discovered that I am autistic at the age of 26 - after spending years of my life wondering why I am different from everyone else - and believing that I was an alien that no one would ever really understand.  Turns out, there are millions of people like me, living a similar, intense, beautiful, life experience.

How would you feel if - everyone around you spoke a different language that you could not understand or even conceive of?

And what would it be like for you if you could strip away all the negative self talk and judgement that you've been stuck with for so long?

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