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Category: Autistic Adulthood

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Autistic Adulthood, Executive Function Issues, Living in the NT World

Adulting for Autistics: Filing Your Taxes

January 21, 2021

Today’s Adulting For Autistics topic is one of the most overwhelming and scary parts of adult life: filing your taxes! Taxes are overwhelming and confusing for pretty much everyone, NT or otherwise.  Many people pay lots of money to have someone else handle their taxes, […]

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Advocacy, Autistic Adulthood, Living in the NT World

Autism and the Spiky Profile

January 14, 2021

One of the hallmarks of autism is asynchronous development – also known as the Spiky Profile or “islands of skill”.  All this means is that some of our skills are very well-developed and others are much lower, so that a graph of our test scores […]

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A balding man with a cross of black tape over his mouth, looking helpless
Autistic Adulthood, Myths and Misconceptions

On Being Semi-Verbal

January 7, 2021

I want to clear something up today.  Lots of people draw distinctions between speaking and non-speaking autistics, as if that matters.  And the people who make these distinctions don’t seem to realize that it’s not as simple as “verbal” vs. “non-verbal”.  Like so much of […]

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Red neon sign on a brick wall reads "You are what you listen to".
Autistic Adulthood, Coping

10 More of My Favorite Stimmy Songs

December 31, 2020

Happy New Year!  As we put 2020 in the rearview mirror (finally), we all need a bit of safe celebration.  So, since this year felt more like a decade, I give you ten more of my favorite stimmy songs for the new year! Air on […]

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Autistic Adulthood, Coping

Merry Christmas 2020

December 24, 2020

Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone! This is going to be a short post, as I’m sure everyone has better things to be doing on Christmas Eve than reading my ramblings. It’s a weird Christmas, that’s for sure.  Being separated from family, friends, and all […]

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Advocacy, Autistic Adulthood

How Do I Know Which Autism Groups to Support?

December 17, 2020

Recent events like the backlash to a trailer for a film I won’t mention here have brought up that perennial blister of the autistic community – why Autism Speaks is such a problem.  For many people outside the autistic community or those new to the […]

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A person's hands laying out Christmas themed cookies on a cookie sheet.
Autistic Adulthood, Coping, Living in the NT World

Holiday Traditions Create a Sense of Stability

December 10, 2020

Today I’m reveling in my holiday traditions of baking, cooking, and watching my favorite Christmas movies.  Everybody has those things that make us say “it’s just not the holidays without _______!”  We call them traditions, but I think it’s more than that.  For me, and […]

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Black and white picture of a boy singing loudly into a microphone.
Advocacy, Autistic Adulthood, Coping, Myths and Misconceptions

Verbal Stims

December 3, 2020

Autistic people stim in lots of ways – we jump, rock, use weighted blankets, touch favorite textures, etc.  One of my favorite ways to stim is verbally.  I like playing with words, with the sounds of them and the feel of them in my mouth, […]

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Red neon sign spelling out "No Music No Life"
Autistic Adulthood, Coping, Life Hacks

10 of My Favorite Stimmy Songs

November 26, 2020

It’s Thanksgiving here in the US, so for the holiday, I’m giving you a quick list of ten of my favorite stimmy songs.  Now, most of my life revolves around music – I’m a dancer, my mind can’t be allowed to run around unsupervised – […]

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A bookshelf stuffed with books as well as a television screen and a plant.
Autistic Adulthood, Life Hacks, Myths and Misconceptions

Speaking in Quotes is Real Communication

November 19, 2020

I speak in movie quotes, tv references, and lines out of books and plays.  Honestly, it’s one of my biggest obstacles to clear communication because the lines I reference can be kind of obscure, but when I find people who get it, I know we’ll […]

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