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.
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Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)
The physical bodily changes in Fight-or-Flight
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.
Navigating the Complexities of Parenting with Complex PTSD
Am I bad at parenting or do I have a challenging child? This question may be a sign you’re having an existential crisis.
The world is a cruel place which is why we need safe spaces
If the world is a cruel place, why can’t your home be your child’s one guaranteed safe place? Don’t be your kid’s first bully.
Our Behavioral Disaster at the Airport
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.
The Perfect Father [Poem]
My mother, a single parent, couldn’t compete with the perfect father that lived in my head.
Autistic Communication, A Presentation by an Autistic Elementary Teacher
Did you know the Autistic community has their own set of social cues? By learning and accepting how Autistic people communicate, you can help everyone feel free to be themselves. Print this out for your classrooms!
How to Find a Therapist for your Neurodivergent Child featuring AuTeach
This autistic educator, AuTeach, can help you spot the red flags when looking for a neuroaffirmative pediatric therapist or service in this TikTok series.
Autistics Parenting Autistics
Autistic Occupational Therapist, Sarah Selvaggi Hernandez, discusses the unique intersection of being autistic and a parent.
How Autistic People are Marginalized
Understand how and why members of the autistic community are marginalized both historically and currently.
Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA): Ban Shock Treatment
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.
Interview with Dr. Ole Ivar Løvaas about Autistic Children (1974)
Ole Ivar Lovaas, the founder of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is interviewed about his dehumanizing perspective of autistic people that led to his abusive and torturous methods to force compliance in his autism treatment.