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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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Hiding Yourself Away

Kai — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:40:54 +0000

A sure way to feel lonely or isolated is when we are alone with our interests. Those of us on the spectrum tend to hyper focus on things and get very excited about something (anything from trains, Star Wars or frogs) for either short periods of time to a life time. I am always most fascinated by those who dedicate …

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Being an Adult

Kai — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:42:00 +0000

Life was just a lot easier before I had to grow up. I am not saying being an adult doesn’t have its benefits, such as having complete responsibility over our own life and the choices we make. It’s just, being a child also had a lot of benefits and not just of the “I see a jar of cookies and …

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Facial Expressions

Kai — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 11:29:07 +0000

This time I want to talk about facial expressions. It’s something that most people do intuitively, I am told, and interpreting the facial expressions of others is equally intuitive. Not to me, though. It may come as a surprise to you, but I didn’t even know that I couldn’t read facial expressions until I was a teenager. When I was …

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Loss of Taste and Smell

Kai — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000

When I say I lost my sense of smell and taste, it would not entirely true. I mean that it is almost entirely lost and whatever little bit is left doesn’t taste or smell like anything I can recall. I can really only taste sour things, but none of the sour things taste like sour used to. Lemons, for example, …

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Forging a New Path

Kai — Fri, 14 May 2021 12:39:00 +0000

Life is a journey, they say. I understand why people say it, but it doesn’t make me any less irritated by those words. What makes it even worse is that I myself say it occasionally. These days I feel completely lost. I don’t have any real skills, I haven’t accomplished anything of importance (or even accomplished something of no importance …

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When All You Want to Do Is Hide

Kai — Wed, 12 May 2021 11:16:00 +0000

I am so very lucky, so very privileged and that makes me feel even worse sometimes. There are times, like these days, when all I want to do is to hide somewhere. To go into hibernation like a bear and not return until after winter has ended and everything begins anew. Right now, it feels a lot like wintertime, in …

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