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Autism Tech Support: Feeling Overwhelmed? Start small

Kai — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:08:01 +0000

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 …

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Autism Tech Support: Weighted blankets

Kai — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 08:22:03 +0000

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 …

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Autism Tech Support: Mute Notifications

Kai — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:11:00 +0000

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, …

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Autism Tech Support: Sunglasses

Kai — Mon, 03 May 2021 10:17:00 +0000

One of the things that can really mess with my mood is light. I am extremely sensitive to light and most of the year I feel tired and irritable simple because the light is constantly hurting my eyes. The pain is, most of the time, followed by headaches and irritability. Who doesn’t get grumpy when they have a headache and …

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Autism Tech Support: Headphones

Kai — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 11:07:00 +0000

It’s been a while since my last Autism Tech Support post, so I felt it was about time. I’ve actually been wanting to write about headphones since the beginning because headphones were one of the first things, I bought that really started changing my life. Sound, smell and light are the things that can cause me most pain. Being on …

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Autism Tech Support: Smartwatch and Water Bottle

Kai — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:15:00 +0000

Today I’m talking about the smartwatch. I have a Samsung smartwatch and it has helped me a lot with everyday life. I know that it’s not cheap to buy a smartwatch of any kind, but it has already been worth the money. I was lucky enough to get it as a special Christmas present from my mother last year, because …

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Autism Tech Support: My Signal

Kai — Thu, 21 May 2020 13:28:00 +0000

This is a new series I’ve been wanting to start for a really long time. I call it Autism Tech Support because I like the sound of it. It’s going to be about the different things we have that make it easier to live life with Autism Spectrum Disorder. There are many tools out there claiming to help people like …

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