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Recent content by janie

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    Learning about myself

    Conditioned hypervigilence to mask my offensive otherness precedes my earliest memory of being. I cannot be another, yet struggle to warm to my heartfire.
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    im so scared to post anything

    Hi, kelz85. You did it. Your first post meets with warm welcomes! I so hope connections help you shed some loneliness and fear. Way to lift your voice for you. Namaste.
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    Being troubled by my mother again...

    Though my ASD dx came late in my life, my relationship with my mother has been a lifelong challenge to me and virally communicated disappointment to her. Too often it has been too dense and ugly for me to understand, and prior to my dx, I had no context why and how I failed to meet her...
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    Change one letter to make a new word

    wilt
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    Emotions from learning you're on the spectrum

    I was also dx'd late in life, as they say. Like the dx itself, my response to this identity-transformative travels the spectrum of emotions, context guidance, denial, grace, acceptance.... I am still in process. I understand better where I've been now. I respect the human brain and its...
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    How to fix things with my family post-meltdown

    self regulation: meltdown:: balance: fall a balance beam my balance beam no gymnast i plod across the ground yet some days i trod its length without a stumble i even nail the dismount some purple hours likewise other days i thunderclap warp on the floor sans leotard or net a funambulist's...
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    Weathered by Weather?

    As ever, Community, your replies ground me and remind me I am safe here. Thank you.
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    Weathered by Weather?

    Hello again. I have missed your voices, friends. Hurricane Irma shook the snook out of my snow globe. Through the relentless cycle of prep, hunkering down in dark, mandatory evacuation, return to home, clean, haul debris, tote barge, clean, exertion injuries, rest a beat, wait for power to be...
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    The ASD Riddle

    A list of steps helps me too. When I journal, I record similar process streams with arrows like a flowchart. For more complex transactions, this allows me to branch process stream. For example, "if yes, if no, if mad, if triggered, etc.
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    The ASD Riddle

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    Greetings!

    You were dx'd YESTERDAY You sing HOPE today No waiting for TOMORROW Your resilience rises like a Phoenix from the flames, flickering, neon gift wrap.
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    Save me from the human race

    Old duck: Fender-bender-fishtail :: Snow Bird: Eary Bird Dinner
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    The ASD Riddle

    New member Quinny posted a lovely introduction. Once again, warm welcome, Quinny, hope you find cool sand and safe breezes here. Quinny shared a great observation from an insightful therapist yesterday when diagnosed. Thanks, Quinny! I thought could be presented here as a thread topic for...
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    Greetings!

    or just, "being "neurodiverse" can really be a gift, as long as the negative aspects are being controlled with healthy coping mechanisms." If i new how to begin new thread, this would also make great topic: How do you employ control healthy coping mechanisms to leverage being "neurodiverse" as...
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    Greetings!

    Welcome, Quinny. This should be the message inside of a box of ASD fortune cookues, "My wonderful therapist has a great perspective, and she believes that being "neurodiverse" can really be a gift, as long as the negative aspects are being controlled with healthy coping mechanisms."
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