Being Sensory Smart
Once you have started to notice your own sensory differences and preferences, you can then start to experiment with ways to balance and juggle them
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7 July 2023
emotions
Alexithymia
What is alexithymia? Alexithymia is a Greek word that literally translates as “no words for feelings”, and means difficulty with understanding and/or describing your feelings
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7 July 2023
Sensory – Internal Senses in more detail
What is interoception? We are all familiar with the five senses: smell, sight, touch, hearing and taste. But did you know we also have another
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3 July 2023
Sensory – Internal Senses
Autistic people often have lower sensitivity OR higher sensitivity with their internal senses. It is common for the levels of sensitivity to change according to
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3 July 2023
Autism can suck!
When you read information from adult autistic people, they often only talk about all the positives of autism – and there is a reason for
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7 July 2023
Window of Tolerance
Everyone in the world becomes angry, worried, or stressed at some point and when this happens, we can struggle to control our senses, emotions and
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7 July 2023
Self-Harm
What is Self-Harm? Self-harm is when you cause harm to yourself on purpose. There are many different reasons why someone might self-harm, but often it
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7 July 2023
Managing your brain’s energy
Research shows that autistic people’s brains tend to have higher processing power than non-autistic brains, but this may not always show as we often have
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7 July 2023
Medication
Autism does not require any medication: it’s just a difference and not something to cure. “I don’t suffer from autism, I suffer from idiots” Times
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7 July 2023
Bullying
“Bullying is when one person or a group of people deliberately hurt another person, more than once, and it’s hard for the person on the
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7 July 2023