
The Meltdown Cycle: Understanding and Navigating Emotional Crises
Learn more about autistic meltdowns and how to navigate them when they happen to you or someone you know.

Learn more about autistic meltdowns and how to navigate them when they happen to you or someone you know.

Learn more about the physical changes of fight-or-flight. Before we were at the top of the food-chain, we relied on our sympathetic nervous system for survival. Now we don’t need it so much as a survival instinct, but we still have it and it is the basis for panic attacks, anxiety attacks, C/PTSD responses, meltdowns, and more.

If you’re like me and you don’t always understand social cues but you also like to be a prankster for April Fool’s day, here are the rules I’ve come up with to ensure my pranks remain safe and fun for everyone.

Learn about angry and violent meltdowns and the techniques I use to get our family through them safely.

My partner, 4-year-old autistic child, and I flew transatlantic to visit family and we had one of the worst meltdowns of our lives in the airport.

Learn and practice autism acceptance by providing accessibility in both public and private places for autistic people. How can you do better?

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.