Hello Aspies, In this post I will be giving you tips on how to recognize and deal with sensory overload. First you maybe thinking what is sensory overload. Sensory overload happens when you’re getting more input from your five senses than your brain can sort through and process. Think walking into a grocery store and getting overwhelmed by the smells, and sounds of all the people talking at once, add the bright lights. This is all too much info for…
Life Lessons
A Psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they be asked the “Half empty or half full” question. Instead with a smile on her face she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz. She replied “The weight of the glass doesn’t matter. It depends on how long it. If I hold it for a minute…
Everyone has anxity one way or another. It just manifest in differnet ways. I know for an example, that I have anxiety. I get nervous when flying and I start to sweat. But once I get on the plane and put my bags away and sit down I feel more relaxed. I also get performance anxiety and I know two good examples. The first time I had a bit of a anxiety attack was when I was supposed to get…
I have talked about this in previous post. How important pets are to those of us with Autism, but I think need to bring up some good points that will help the parents out there understand how significant pets are. When having a pet parents don’t realize all that it can teach their child. When you have a child who has trouble making friends and doesn’t quite understand impressionability yet having a pet can teach you those things. Here are…
Hello everyone. I know these are trying times now. We are all trying to do our best. There are those of you whose routines are thrown off skew due to the stay at home orders from our governors. There are those of you who are not used to this. You have you set routine and all of sudden a monkey wrench is thrown in and now your panicking, You need to remember that the stay at home order is not…
Hello everyone. I just want to make this quick post to assure everyone out there who is reading this post is safe and well and to remind you to wash you hand anytime you come from being outside. No matter if its just throwing out the garbage or going to the store you never know where the germs are. In this trying times, people have gone into fear mode, not knowing when this pandemic will end. People are not thinking…
Welcome to the new year. In this post I am going to talk about little things that can help you get through you life with no hangups. We all have issues getting through life, things that either make us stop in our tracks and go back and correct our actions to just the little things we miss out of every day life. Lets start with the most simplest thing. No matter where we look it seems everyone is in…
This is a different type of post. This is a letter to my dear beloved father who passed away 3yrs ago on August 10th. Dear Dad, Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you or hear you hearty voice in my head. I still can remember all the things you taught me through the years. Each one of your life lessons still stick with me today. I can recount the times we would just sit and watch…
Well I am ending the double blind study, and I feel as that I am on the drug. These are the observations I have made so many to tell me that I maybe on the new medicine. Observations: I am thinking more clearer. I am seeing things much normally. I am thinking of others before I am thinking of myself. (Ex. I had cooked dinner for my mother a month or so, and even cleaned up). I noticed when I…
This is one of the biggest problems. It’s a problem everyone faces, but those on the spectrum it’s a huge issue. This is because we are outside the norm and society looks at us different. We are people and have feelings as well. Some of the biggest fears we face are: abandonment, making friends, socializing with people, and just plain old being accepted. Maybe of those on the spectrum have to whats called “Mask” which is pretending to normal just…