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Accepting Compliments While Autistic

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Many autistic people find accepting compliments and being kind to ourselves difficult, especially if our experience has been that other people lambast us if we dare to exist openly while autistic.

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Considering Interpersonal Skills For Autistic People

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Autistic people are usually left to our own devices when it comes to navigating a social world defined by non-autistic rules. And when we make social errors, it’s very common to wish to retreat. Here are some (hopefully) comforting guidelines for such situations.

Cover of the book Work it Out by Sarah Kurchak. The background is light aqua with a light gray grid pattern. In the center is a person seen from overhead, lying in a bed with their head on a pillow, holding two hand weights next to their head. They have brown skin, dark brown hair, and are wearing a yellow tank top.

Work It Out! An Accessible Guide to Starting Exercise

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Sarah Kurchak’s Work it Out is a neurodivergent accessible guide to starting regular physical exercise. This is a handbook on how to get started for those who have had difficult due to any number of reasons (like stigma, physical and mental health, being neurodivergent in a world where instructions are not designed for your neurotype).

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Autistic in the Pandemic: A Call to Action

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Photo © Katie | Flickr / Creative Commons [image:Black-and-white photo of a person wearing a hoodie and pants, seen from behind near deciduous trees, reaching up and out to the sky.] Maxfield Sparrow unstrangemind.com In the recent WWI movie, 1917, there’s a scene where the reluctant hero encounters a woman hiding behind enemy lines, trying

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The Problems with Functioning Labels

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Functioning labels do not always relate to people’s real skills and can be based on hurtful stereotypes about autistic people. They also assume that people’s skills cannot change over time.

Autism Families: Seeking Support Is A Sign Of Family Health

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Laura Shumaker www.laurashumaker.com www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/lshumaker/index I was a part time pharmaceutical rep with a one and a half year old at home the first time I got really sick, sicker than I had ever been. I remember walking up a flight of stairs carrying my detail bag full of Advil and The Today Sponge (yes, we

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