@Autistic Realms
@autisticrealms
#autisticparent & #teacher advocating for a better understanding of #neurodivergence & #mentalhealth in #education #MentalHealthMatters #actuallyautistic
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Now available! #AutisticBurnout: #FamilyGuide 137pg PDF download to help develop understanding and support children & young people through #Autistic Burnout. Written from lived experience as #ActuallyAutistic #Parent #Teacher #MentalHealthMatters #Autism autisticrealms.com/product-page/aâŚ
When your child demonstrates emerging mental health challenges under the age of 14, you enter a world of âwatch and waitâ, âitâs your anxiety Mum, not theirsâ, âitâs just a phase, have you considered your parenting approach?â, âtheyâre fine at schoolâ, âdonât worry, theyâre
@Autistic Realms (2/8) on the Shore, Haruki Murakami, 2002) Some people report fully recovering from autistic burnout, some partially recover and some report never recovering. ââŚAfter years of repeated burnouts and living in an ongoing survival state, I know that I will never recover. Returning
@Autistic Realms (3/8) to the same place and state I once was is impossible. Too much has changed. My burnouts are deep; they have changed my very core way of being and experiencing. There has been a whole seismic shift in how my sensory system responds to life and what it needs. As Dr Devon Pric
@Autistic Realms (4/8) e wrote, âYou might not recover from burnout. Everâ, but that doesnât mean you canât find new ways of living and navigating life. It feels almost inevitable that I will continue to have cycles of burnout as the whole of society, and the way the world works is generally just
@Autistic Realms (5/8) not suited to being monotropic. Constantly dividing attention resources to get through your day is exhausting for monotropic people; it can lead to the concept Tanya Adkin developed and has written about with David Gray-Hammond
@Autistic Realms David Gray-Hammond (6/8) â âmonotropic splitâ. I do believe the more you know about your Autistic/ AuDHD identity and the more you understand the theory of monotropism, the more you can help with the healing process. You can begin to find ways to work with your flow and not against it âeven if the
@Autistic Realms David Gray-Hammond (7/8) se are just little rock pools of rest and respite where you can unmask and be yourself in your safe place with safe people who understand you â as you continue to battle against the constant crashes and tides of neuronormativity that can feel so heavy and pull us down.
Rest can become a radical act in a world that often equates our worth with productivity, especially for Autistic people, where our ways of resting may look different. Reclaiming Rest: Autistic Burnout, Monotropism, and Resistance Inspired by #NapMinistry autisticrealms.com/reclaiming-resâŚ
This is so important , thank you to everyone involved. Dave for Lichfield, Burntwood & the Villages I have contacted you directly about this 3 times previously but without reply. Could you help and can we discuss please ?
Debate: Should learning disabilities be separated from autism in healthcare policy? Autism and learning disabilities are grouped in healthcare policies because of their high co-occurrence rate, even though they are entirely different from one another. learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/debate/is-it-tâŚ
