Pet ownership can offer significant benefits for Autistic people. However, it’s important to assess your or your loved one’s needs and abilities before committing. The post Are You Autistic? Do You Think You Want a Pet? appeared first on THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Explaining what it is like to be autistic to non-autistic people can be difficult. To quote Dawn Prince-Hughes (Cultural Autism Studies at Yale), being autistic is like “being human without the skin”. This can be difficult for non-autistic people to understand. Seeing and feeling the blank looks and Double Empathy Problem (Milton, 2012) at a […]| Autistic Realms
Neuroqueering in Liminal Spaces “By silencing our bodyminds, they (neurotypical society) have halted the growth of a chaotic self. We are no longer able to move fluidly through our experience, instead frozen like ice on an arctic tundra” (Gray-Hammond, 2023) David Gray-Hammond (Emergent Divergence) and I are responding to each other’s blogs to help expand the […]| Autistic Realms