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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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How Do We Heal After a Burnout?

Kai — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:08:00 +0000

Have you ever explained important things about yourself and said something like “…because I am autistic” or “…I have Asperger’s so ….” Maybe you gave up explaining and just said some variation of: “People like me on the spectrum can’t do that.”? I know I do. I have done that often in the past. You know why I do it? …

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When Therapy Goes Wrong

Kai — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:30:00 +0000

How often have you gone to some specialist because you needed help, only to be reduced to a questionnaire? If all it takes to diagnose someone or decide what support is needed is to fill out a form, why aren’t we all doing it on our own? The person asking the questions really doesn’t know if we are lying or …

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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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More on the Wrong Kind of Help

Kai — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Yeah, so it’s been a while since I was able to keep a regular posting schedule and it actually really frustrates me. I need to write to feel good, so you can probably guess, I’ve been quite frustrated for a while. Starting something new is always difficult and I was fully prepared for that – or I thought that I …

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The Wrong Kind of Help

Kai — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:15:41 +0000

I have already said this several times over the last couple of years, but many of us on the spectrum need support in some way to be able to live relatively independently. To some it may appear like we can live independently without any “real problems” and this is in some way, I guess, true. In some way, however, it’s …

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Pursuing Your Purpose

Kai — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:24:25 +0000

Even though it is almost impossible for me to say out loud, I think in some ways I do think of myself as a form of artist. Of course, there are many forms of artists, but what lies at the core of it is the pursuit of a craft – an art. In my opinion, almost anything can be a …

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