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Autism

The Importance and Power of Autistic Self-Diagnosis

Posted on April 29, 2019March 31, 2023 by Solveig Standal

When we deny the validity of self diagnosis, we fail to recognize how broken health care systems can be. We effectively restrict our support to those privileged to afford a formal diagnosis.

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Autism

After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents

Posted on March 23, 2017June 7, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

If your child has recently been diagnosed with autism, as my son was in 2003, here’s what I want you to know: Learn from me, don’t be me.

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Autism

Jean’s Adult Diagnosis Story

Posted on June 27, 2012April 28, 2022 by Jean Winegardner

I am very grateful to have this new piece of information about myself. I don’t consider my diagnosis to be an answer to all my life’s problems, nor do I consider it to be a deficit. What I see it as is a new lens to see my behavior through.

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thinkingautism thinkingautism.bsky.social @thinkingautism ·
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#AskingAutistics. Seriously: If most of your childhood and schooling was structured by non-autistic people, how much of that time did you spend bored to tears? And getting in trouble for "acting out" because you were SO bored? #Neurodiversity

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drstevenkapp Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp ·
27 Sep

Free for now study: “a high proportion of hyper-empathic experiences…empathic responses to be overwhelming, or even distressing. These different experiences of empathy contrast with societal expectations of empathy, which often result in additional labor for autistic people”

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"Researchers are using dozens of studies of how screen time affects typically developing children to jump past the question of how it affects us [autistic people] and go straight into developing strategies for taking our screens away." By @UnstrangeMind:

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Autistic kids can be hard on electronics, furniture—and more. There are often (not always, but often) approaches or adaptations that parents & caregivers can make to prevent or reduce incidents, and make things easier for everyone. Advice aplenty at TPGA:

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On Autism Diagnoses

  • The Importance and Power of Autistic Self-Diagnosis
  • After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents
  • Jean's Adult Diagnosis Story

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