Happy Halloween, everybody!! I LOVE Halloween! I love everything about it, from decorating and jack o’lanterns to dressing up and trick-or-treating. Classic monster movies, Vincent Price features, and Tim Burton flicks are in heavy rotation all month long at my house. It’s my favorite time […]
If you’re an autistic adult, you’ve probably been told what you can or can’t do a lot over the course of your life. Even if you weren’t diagnosed as a child, you were probably different enough from your peers that parents or teachers tried to […]
Today in Adulting for Autistics, I’m going to talk about stress management. Autistic people often get a bad rap as being overreactive, easily freaked out, and generally emotionally fragile. While it’s true that we have a higher baseline for stress than NTs, we don’t deserve […]
Last weekend, I had an awful experience. I’d taken my car in to get some maintenance done, and then, a few hours later, something broke and the car overheated and became undrivable. This was Saturday evening, of course, so nothing could be done until Monday […]
One of the biggest hurdles young adults face is keeping themselves properly nourished on the money they have available. This is true of autistic and allistic people alike – it’s a skill you have to learn. Some people struggle with it well into their 30s. Personally, I didn’t realize […]
Living independently as an autistic adult can be a real challenge, largely due to our executive function problems. Between keeping your home clean, keeping yourself and your family fed, maintaining your own hygiene and laundry, and going to work regularly, it seems like there are […]
Adulting for Autistics is a series about practical life skills to help autistic adults live independently and build good relationships. Some of this is stuff I’ve learned the hard way over the years, and some I’m still learning. If there’s something you’d like to see […]
