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Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation

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Big Feelings: Assisting with Distress

Autistic people frequently suffer from ongoing stresses, like being misunderstood, feeling unheard, experiencing RSD, having schema disrupted, etc. Most neurodivergent people experience many of these, even if allistic, due to the pressure placed upon them by neuronormative societal expectations. While this can result in meltdowns, or challenging behaviour, another demonstration of this can be straightforward distress. What is Distress? Distress is extreme sadness, anxiety, or pain, and can present in a number of ways. “Distressed[…]

Meltdowns: Can You Help?

When your child is in the midst of a meltdown, particularly an aggressive one, it can feel impossible to help. It might feel like you have no way of engaging or intervening without putting yourself at risk. Or that the only option is to ride it out until they exhaust themselves. While there might be meltdowns you can’t assist your child with, some changes in approach might improve your odds. Meltdowns can be self perpetuating.[…]

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