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Category: meltdown

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Autistic

Trauma Clashes: Staying Calm When Someone is Melting Down

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Maxfield Sparrow

When you look up what Autistic people have said about how to help us through meltdowns, the most foundational piece of advice you will see again and again is to remain calm. But what about when you can’t remain calm? What about when that Autistic person’s meltdown is triggering your own trauma response?

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Autistic

Creating Neuro-Friendly Event Spaces: The Retreat Project



Posted on June 7, 2022June 8, 2022 by Anne Borden

Retreat isn’t just a quiet room, it is an explicitly neurodivergent space. Nothing about us without us, right? It’s a place to stim freely, drop the mask a little, and find some neurodivergent kinfolk.

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Autism

It’s Never Just a Sandwich

Posted on May 6, 2021December 13, 2022 by Emma Dalmayne

When you have a meltdown it’s as if the world is ending. Everything is too much, and you feel like an overwhelming darkness has engulfed your very being. Irrepressible anger that may seem completely irrational to an outsider can be inwardly devastating us internally.

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Accommodations

An Open Letter from an Autistic Child in Meltdown

Posted on October 23, 2016May 4, 2022 by Maxfield Sparrow

When you help me cope with a meltdown and when you help create an environment that helps me avoid meltdowns, you are helping to build a kinder, gentler world that has room for everyone, no matter what kind of nervous system they have.

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