
Loving Yourself Can Be Challenging When You’re Disabled
Self-love? Whoever said nobody can love you until you love yourself was full of shit; we are not unlovable just because we don’t love ourselves.
Mental health is often ignored and overlooked. For far too long, we’ve neglected to take care of ourselves in favor of meeting physical expectations. Let’s change that.
Thank you for taking care of yourself.

Self-love? Whoever said nobody can love you until you love yourself was full of shit; we are not unlovable just because we don’t love ourselves.

After discovering I am autistic, I spent the last year becoming self-aware and I had no idea that’d lead to self-acceptance.

Labels build knowledge which can lead to self-awareness. If knowledge is power, then ignorance is powerless. I’m constantly learning more about my autistic self.
Support Keeping All Students Safe (KASSA) by Stopping the Shock! FDA’s ban on a dangerous electric shock device was overturned by angry parents and therapists.

Learn about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and its founder, Ole Ivar Lovaas, and his early tests on autistic children at UCLA.

Planned Ignoring, or attention extinction, is an abusive technique recommended by Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for autism treatment.

I didn’t know I was autistic until I was an adult, but I knew that I was different from an early age. There’s been a pattern to my life that not even “professionals” could see until I had lived it long enough—until I struggled long enough.