Have you ever felt overwhelmed by places and situations? Yeah, I think whether we are on the spectrum or not we’ve probably all been there. To me, it often starts with my extreme sensitivity to noise, light and things like that. I believe it’s called hypersensitivity, but really, my experience of it is very much like other people have a …
Autism Tech Support: Weighted blankets
It’s been a while since my last tech support, but since the very beginning I’ve wanted to talk a bit about weighted blankets and so, here it goes. If you have never heard of a weighted blanket, then it might sound a bit strange to you. How can a heavy blanket do anything except be heavy? Well, it kinda does …
Autism Tech Support: Mute Notifications
Social interaction is hard. Sometimes people act like all we need to do is learn some strategies and then go out and do it, but that is such an oversimplification. Yes, of course we need to learn strategies, but what people often forget is that simply knowing those strategies won’t really improve life for us. We need to implement them, …