In this week's vlog, I share how I am now discovering that things just happen in life becuase of being autistic. It is also understanding that through the decades since I have been diagnosed that we have had plenty of awareness and more of a shift towards autism acceptance.
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In this week's vlog, I share how I have learned and grown in the past few years changing behavior, becoming more mature along with loving and accepting myself for what life is despite the many changes and challenges in the past few years.
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In this week's vlog, I share how I began master self-awareness and understand why it is important to have dignity when out and about in the outside world.
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In this week's vlog, we continue my managing myself series in honor of World Mental Health Day focusing on Why Managing My Mental Health Matters Everyday and how beneficial life can be when doing so.
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In this week's vlog, I share my experiences with mania, how it evolves, some tips for improvement, how I discovered and accepted the need for medication to have the best quality of life possible.
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In this week's vlog, inspired by another podcast, I share my experiences with social pragmatics, how I understood what they are, how I cope and make them manageable along with tips and strategies that are known to help and how some of them have helped me.
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In this week's vlog, I explain briefly what stimming is and how it is done safely for me along with the importance of understanding how stimming is a necessary part of living for some autisitic individuals in of which there needs to be not only awareness but accpetance of stimming as part of being autistic as long as it is done in a safe and appropriate manner but does not interfere with one's quality of life.
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In this week's vlog, I explain some of the challenges that autistic people and those that care for them as it relates to passive thoughts of ending their life along with the challenges when interacting with first responders or facing psychiatric hospitalization or imprisonment.
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In this week's vlog, I explain the importance of being responsible as an autistic person and the challenges that can be faced in doing so and how it and other things matter to not only ourselves as autistic folk but those that love, care and are around us too.
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In this week's vlog, I explain some of the struggles faced in the daily life of an autistic person such as myself.
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In this week's vlog, I explain how it is important and acceptable to say NO to things in life along with accepting the word NO from authorative figures.
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In this week's vlog, I explain how difficult it can be for autistic people to do the the non-preferred adult stuff that is required for us to exist in the world that is often not made for us. It is fighting through our immaturity complexes and doing what is needed even when we do not want to.
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In this week's vlog, I explain how difficult it can be for autistic people to admit that they need help or Accommodations for things that come natural to others or even admit that they fall under the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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In this week's vlog, I explain how remembering my past meltdowns shaped me into understanding that there are expectations for when we are in the outside world and how to cope with the challenges we face as autistic people.
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In this week's vlog, I continue to explain how it is important to take care of your mental health each and every day in order to be your best self every day.
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In this week's vlog, I continue to explain how it is important to be patient with yourself when getting back on medicine from a relapse, to continue to fight through your own battles and how medication can be a crucial tool in your mental health recovery.
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In this week's vlog, I continue to explain how it is important to be patient with yourself when getting back on medicine from a relapse, to push through it, give yourself grace and be kind to yourself in the process.References:
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In this week's vlog, I explain how I discovered how over the past several years not taking my medication as prescribed was noted as pointless and destructive along with the signs that helped me find the "why" I have to adhere to my psychotropic medications.References:
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In this week's vlog, I explain how being autistic can be hard at times but it does not give us an excuse from not knowing the difference between what is right or what is wrong and that the world expects us to be at the best of our ability when we navigate it with the understanding that everyone may not understand us.
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In this week's vlog, I explain how it takes being a 'warrior' in the world that is not made for the challenges that I experience that things like autistic burnout are a reality and that I have accepted it as part of my being autistic and having other challenges but also rising above when rest is had and being a better person my making myself and my mental health a priority.
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