If it’s really bad, I’ll start touching my chair with my hand next to me. I might close my eyes and listen to the sounds in the room around me. I will probably count and do breathing exercises. Continue reading Managing Anxiety & Panic Attacks – an Autistic Perspective
As an autistic person, I feel like, for me, my emotional response is more intense to certain situations, and people don’t always respond well to me being “overly emotional” and people expect me to get my emotions under control. But I am feeling very, very intense emotions, so sometimes it’s not that simple. Continue reading Autism Advocacy – The Importance of Autistic Voices
This week I had the pleasure of being invited into The Anxious Truth Podcast. We discuss some of the overlapping issues found in both anxiety disorders and autism and other neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD. Continue reading Anxiety and Autism/Neurodiversity Issues on The Anxious Truth Podcast
If there’s danger, those signals are supposed to tell you to run away or protect yourself. But unfortunately, for some people, for different reasons, that fight or flight response might be being triggered in situations that aren’t useful. . . Continue reading Fight, Flight, Freeze – An Autistic Perspective – the Fight or Flight Response
The Autistic Sensory Spectrum – Live at Honestly Autism Day 2019 – talking about Stimmig, Sensory Processing, Regulation, and Harmful Stims Transcription Christa Holmans: Um, so, I’m, thank you so much for being here today. Uh, my name is Christa Holmans, … Continue reading The Autistic Sensory Spectrum – Featuring Stimming: The great, the good, and the ugly
I had the extreme pleasure of being invited to speak at the 10th annual Honestly Autism Day on April 6, 2019. The conference was amazing. I encourage you to check it out if you are ever in the area. Here … Continue reading Neurodivergent Rebel Honestly Autism Q&A – Q&A from Honestly Autism Day Morning Session
Autism is not something that people grow out of and it is not something that can be or should be cured. Continue reading Video What is Autism? – from an Autistic Adult
People often ask me if I was diagnosed Aspergers or Autistic Continue reading Autism or Aspergers – Which is it?
Get access to EXCLUSIVE members only content for only $1 a month at http://www.patreon.com/NeurodivergentRebel Continue reading Unpacking Anxiety: Self Doubt and Perfectionism – an Autistic Perspective
Anxiety & Me – I Was in Complete Denial that I Even Had Anxiety #Anxiety #mentalhealth- @NeuroRebel Continue reading Anxiety & Me – I Was in Complete Denial that I Even Had Anxiety
