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When Autistic Kids Destroy Things: Insights and Advice

Posted on June 18, 2020September 27, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

If parents can try to figure out why autistic children have the urges to break things, and then accommodate them as much as they can, everyone can have a much easier time. Not always, but in many cases.

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What Is Sensory Processing Like For Autistic People?

Posted on October 28, 2019May 3, 2022 by Reid Caplan

Autistic people process our senses differently, and that’s okay! Autism makes us who we are, and sensory processing is an important part of being autistic. People should try and understand autism and how it makes us different, instead of trying to change us.

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People having mental health crises deserve a "rights-respecting and community-based alternative to over-medicalized and police-led responses" that include informed consent. @hrw describes a Toronto-based case study on how such models can work.

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Research shows that people with ID thrive if empowered to live their best lives, & that "Intellectual disability severity only had a negative relationship with QoL total level when not considered simultaneously with self-determination." (Paywall, sadly.)

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Research shows that people with ID thrive if empowered to live their best lives, & that "Intellectual disability severity only had a negative relationship with QoL total level when not considered simultaneously with self-determination." (Paywall, sadly.)

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"One of the most important things autistic people can offer parents is interpretation skills. Interpreting our culture/way of communicating. Preventing misunderstandings. Helping families to learn one another’s languages of love & caring" @thinkingautism

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