self-care
Overlapping Triggers & Soothers in Autistic Relationships
Go to todaysautisticmoment.com for the transcripts. Each Autistic individual has their unique blend of what triggers or soothes them. Subjects that trigger the fight or flight response. Sensory needs such as loud music is your partner's soother, but it is your trigger. Watching the same TV show over and over again is your soother, but it is your partner's trigger. You are Autistic and ADHD, your soot...
Conflict Resolution
Go to todaysautisticmoment.com for the transcript. Autistic Adults face more conflict than just about any group of people. Our challenges with verbal and nonverbal communication, finding our social support networks, and the stigmas imposed by our disabilities can burn us out. If the conflicts we have with others doesn’t weigh us down, our interior conflict with ourselves most certainly will. Autistics need str...
Self-Care After Autistic Diagnosis/Identification
Go to todaysautisticmoment.com for the transcript. If you or someone you know has just been self-identified or diagnosed by a professional, this episode is especially for you. If you have been identified as Autistic for a long time and wondered about some things that happened right after, this show is for you too. Getting an Autism diagnosis changes your life. If you are late identified because you are over ...
Self-Care During Emotional Avalanches
Go to todaysautisticmoment.com for the transcript. One experience most Autistics have had is emotional avalanches. You feel really happy one minute, then the next, something happens and your emotions avalanche and take all your happiness with them. Michelle will join me to talk about some great self-care tips for Autistics in those emotional avalanche moments. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters....
Self-Care Through Creating Good Boundaries
Go to todaysautisticmoment.com for the transcript. Autistics have the right to have boundaries that keep us safe from abuse. Autistics are often told that we do not keep the boundaries of others, but we have neurotypicals violating our boundaries all the time. Matthew Lawrence is a life coach who works with Autistics to develop good boundaries. Join Matthew and I as we talk about the boundaries that Autistic...
Self-Care During Autism Acceptance Month
Go to todaysautististicmoment.com for the transcript. Autism Acceptance Month is supposed to be about Autistics. However, Autism Acceptance Month has become commodified for merchandise and arguments about Autism. Many Autistics dread the month of April because we find ourselves explaining and defending ourselves with neurotypicals who claim to be “Autism experts” but do not give Autistics the chance to use o...
The Intersection of Autism and ADHD
Go to todaysautisticmoment.com for the transcript Autistics and those with ADHD intersect as Neurodivergents. We have issues with executive dysfunctioning, attention to detail and social challenges. Pete Wharmby was diagnosed as Autistic at the age of 34 in 2017. At this point, he is a self-diagnosed ADHD because getting diagnoses in England is still complicated because of COVID-19. Pete has imme...
Self-Care During an Election Year
Tap or click on ---> Episode Index Page <--- for the Program and Interview Transcripts Election years bring with them a lot of stress to add on to our stressful lives. Newspaper and/or blog articles, social media ads, television ads, emails are coming at us one after another with negative messages that bombard our senses. We become so overwhelmed, frustrated and burned out. Each effort to turn things o...
Self-Care During a Crisis
Tap or click to get the Program and Interview Transcripts . Crises for Autistic Adults comes from things like not getting hired for a job. Getting rejected by someone you were dating. Maybe you got a notice that your support services were cancelled. Your pet needs to go to the Vet. Maybe you are facing the real threat of homelessness. Autistics face more crises for various reasons, an...
