Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about things that autistic individuals can do to help communicate better with others. There are a lot of articles out there that discuss ways that people can communicate better with us, but what can we do to facilitate the process? After all, communication goes both ways! The best and healthiest relationships are ones where people are meeting in the middle which means that all parties involved are required to compromise and change.
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Confidence
How would you rate your confidence level?
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Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about my self confidence, because it doesn’t work the way that most people think that it does. I’m great at bravado. I can jump into action and make it seem like I am really confident in what I am doing when I am feeling something altogether different inside. This has made it rather difficult to talk about some of the insecurities that I feel because most people who have met me don’t believe that I have them.
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Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about Autism and how science currently understands it’s relationship with genetics. This is a complex topic and because of that, I will be keeping things at a basic level. First, because fully delving into the topic of anything in the realm of genetics is outside the scope of this blog. Secondly, because going into any great depth on the topic is outside my wheel house.
Continue reading “Autism and Genetics”My Alexithymia
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about my personal experience with alexithymia. I recommend that you check out my previous post on alexithymia. In that post I covered what alexithymia is as well as how it is connected to autism as well as PTSD.
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Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about alexithymia and how it is connected with autism. This connection is important because it has lead to many of the misunderstandings regarding those with autism. Many symptoms that are actually symptoms of alexithymia have become associated with autism even though the research shows that this correlation does not exist. So, how did this happen? Well, let’s get into it!
Continue reading “Alexithymia and Autism”Grieving What You Should Have Been
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about grief and my experience getting a late diagnosis for both my Autism and ADHD. There are some things that I experienced when I was diagnosed with these that I did not experience with any of my other diagnoses and I want to talk about that experience.
Continue reading “Grieving What You Should Have Been”Autism: Difference vs Disorder Part 2
Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk some more regarding this idea of Autism being a difference rather then a Disorder. I am going to assume that you have read the first part, which you can read here: Autism: Difference vs Disorder. Once you’ve read that, we can get into what I wanted to talk about today. I feel that it is important to further expand on the connection between Autism being considered a Disorder and it also being considered a disability. Because this connection is fundamentally important when we consider if we are ready to have the diagnosis of Autism removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about a video that I just watched that was shared with me in my discord server by catloverjerrygarcia. Thanks for sharing the video, I enjoyed watching it! This video touches on a topic that has been brought up to me a lot as of late and I have decided to write about the thoughts this video has provoked. I want to start out by saying that I don’t disagree with anything that was said in this video, it simply sparked thought and touched upon ongoing discussion which has lead me to thinking which leads me to writing…
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Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about somethings that I have frequently encountered when trying to communicate with neurotypical individuals and what I see as an expression of ableism.
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Zebra Pig 