Acceptance vs Resignation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2IAnyjEmKU
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So, an example of #Autistic folks before modern vaccines is #NikolaTesla! Compassionate, brilliant, and had his ideas stolen by #Edison!
Excerpt from "Was Nikola Tesla Autistic?"
"Some Eccentric Quirks Might Hint at the Possibility of Autism
Tesla garnered headlines for other reasons that fascinated the public, as well:
A carefully regimented daily schedule with work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and dinner at the same restaurant at precisely 8:10 p.m., to be served only by the headwaiter.
Physical tics such as repeatedly curling his toes 100 times each night.
His eidetic memory that allowed him to instantly memorize books and possess perfect recall, allowing him to learn 8 languages easily.
He demonstrated an early ability to perform complex integral calculus computations in his head.
In his youth, Tesla experienced periods of sickness during which he would have visions. These were often the genesis of inventions or solutions to technical problems.
He became obsessed with electricity at an early age.
Because of his inventions and the era in which he lived, many of Tesla’s quirks were seen simply as the eccentricities of a genius—the archetype of the mad inventor.
But looking back, it’s easy to see many of those some quirks as evidence of typical symptoms of an individual with high-functioning autism."
https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/was-nikola-tesla-autistic/
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Is autism disclosure harder than ever? #autisticacceptance #DEI #answer
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Quinn is giving us some shocking examples of employers failing to apply the Equality Act 2010 in the ways we might hope
‘Reasonable’ is such an easily contended term (in ‘reasonable adjustments’)
Interesting that Quinn is talking about how though he’d known he was Autistic for a long time, and had this at the back of his mind, but didn’t really appreciate just how much of his nature was informed by being Autistic
Quinn is picking up on some previous talking points to start: he is an aphantasic hyperempathic alexithymic Autist in the end stages of a two-year burnout
Now he’s talking about something he’s not at liberty to say 😉
Chloe talks about the need for all Autistic therapy to be trauma-focused (not just trauma-informed)
Also references Sonny Hallett and Colin Kerr’s 2020 report: https://autisticmentalhealth.uk/creportfull/
And the BPS’s recent article on neurodiversity-affirmative therapy: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/what-does-it-mean-be-neurodiversity-affirmative
A lot packed into this talk!
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Chloe notes that *group* CBT appears to work for Autistic people
But is it really the CBT that’s effective in that setting, or is it just sharing common experiences with other Autistics?
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Aucademy video (wtih Rachel Cullen) on the Autistic Language Hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjTIqrSp-o
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Aucademy video (with Lisa Cromar) on person-centred counselling for Autistics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShhpNjbsGW4
Inertia can look like depression to a therapist, says Chloe
We need to be aware of our sensory profiles
Chloe recommends Ben Usher-Barrass’s ‘A guide to autistic experience’ – and also the infographics on Ben’s website https://www.autisticality.co.uk
Nature therapy may not work for Autistic people like Chloe who are tactile averse
Talking about aphantasia and hyperphantasia now, and how this can impact on therapeutic approaches
Touching on Rachel Cullen’s Autistic Language Hypothesis here too (not sure that the description here is entirely accurate)
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Why might mental health treatments not work for Autistic people?
First of all, therapists need to know about ordinary Autistic behaviours to be able to differentiate these from mental health problems, says Chloe
We may have difficulty in recognising mental health issues in ourselves too – alexithymia, different baseline
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On top of mental health difficulties that we share with the general population, Chloe notes that there are a number of Autistic-specific mental health issues: overwhelm, meltdown, shutdown, burnout (not the same as depression), harmful stims
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Very pleased to hear that Chloe shares my view that there is no such thing as ‘autism’ – there are just Autistic people
We have differences (from the non-Autistic world) in our experience of the sensory world, in communication, and in thinking, socialising and moving
There is no one way to be Autistic
Just because we need support to varying extents doesn’t mean that we lack some ‘independence’ that other people have
#AcceptanceMatters #AutisticAcceptance #ActuallyAutistic #SensoryProcessing
The popular notion of the ‘spectrum’ (often thought of as a linear continuum) is also profoundly unhelpful – they reference this excellent comic strip: https://the-art-of-autism.com/understanding-the-spectrum-a-comic-strip-explanation/
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Chloe Farahar (Aucademy) is on now, talking about Autistic mental wellbeing, and will be talking about the usefulness (or otherwise) of CBT and the prevalence of trauma, among other things
First they are considering ‘outsider’ clinical descriptions of autism (e.g. DSM-V) and the way we as Autistic people internalise this negative portrayal of autism
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@transponderings@autistics.life After lunch at NEAS’s Acceptance Matters conference, we’ll have Chloe Farahar (Aucademy) speaking about Autistic mental health, and then Quinn Dexter (Autistamatic) talking about ‘unacceptable acceptance’ in the workplace
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