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  1. NyanbinaryNyahess

    How do I convince my doubtful parents of my autism?

    Hi, so I was diagnosed with autism back in March this year. It’s a big deal to me because I’m only being diagnosed now as an adult in college. At this point, I’ve much accepted it along with my friends. Receiving the accommodations I needed was life-changing. However, it’s difficult for my...
  2. Valily

    How do I start the conversations?

    Hello, I want to clarify immediately that "the conversation" isn't referring to making friends. How do I start the conversations? The tough talks? In a lot of social contexts I have a lot of difficulty approaching serious and heated subjects, this usually leads me to never talk about things...
  3. dylan_gnome

    Trying to get myself out of a “food loop”

    Not sure if this is the best board to post this in but it didn’t seem like it really fit in any of the others. For the past few weeks I’ve found myself stuck in what I call a “food loop” where I only want to eat one type of food, or food from a specific restaurant. This month it’s Taco Bell...
  4. Jenisautistic

    Advice about writing about disability In my story

    hi everyone as you may know I made a post earlier About recording the introduction to my book after recording the introduction and looking over the story I found it just wasn’t ready yet I am writing a book and all of my characters are pretty much in seventh grade. I believe one of them is...
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  5. Pinkie B

    Is this a meltdown?

    Every now and then I wake up in the morning and I'm heavy and everything is difficult. Sometimes it happens after I worked really hard the day before, and sometimes I can't, for the life of me, pinpoint any reason whatsoever. This morning I woke up after a good 8.5 hrs of sleep. It was pretty...
  6. Aspychata

    duh, l don't know.....what now?

    So l was extremely stressed in my last apartment. Going through issues, was frightened of not waking up several mornings .So l told this person, l really care about you, just on the off chance, l never saw him again. l finally stopped living in the bad situation and moved out of what seemed to...
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