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Advocating through science based education, validation, and empathy Nicolefilipponeauthor.com/my-links
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Sensory sleeping is having a giant box fan on high but pointed away from you, burying yourself under a heavy blanket but with one foot sticking out, and flipping your pillow to the cool side every few minutes until you finally fall asleep.

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

It's because warmth is only good when it's also comforting. Warmth without comfort is actually pretty annoying. 😆

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Them: You don't look autistic Me: My autism doesn't really look like anything. It's mainly just me being anxious about things. Can't eat safe food. Anxious. Someone too close to me. Anxious. Have to do small talk. Anxious. Them: You don't look anxious Me: I hide it REALLY well

submitted 21 hours ago • 36 comments

If you have a hard time understanding your own thoughts and feelings and struggle to articulate them to others... you may want to look into Alexithymia. It's a brain wiring difference that makes it hard for people to understand and articulate what they're thinking and feeling. ❤️

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

It's disheartening how much I see people holding others to the impossible standard of being perfect. There's no room to make mistakes without people coming after you with pitchforks. And every little (perceived) misstep is treated like it's the most offensive crime to ever be committed. I hate it.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I don't know who needs to see this, but autistic people CAN lack empathy. It's just... not BECAUSE of their autism. Autistic people can also have a TON of empathy. Also not BECAUSE of their autism. Empathy is not a feature of autism. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I asked Chat GPT to be me 10 years in the future and give me advice on how I can reach my goals. It told me (as me) to "write the damn book"... "the grown up one"... and I literally burst into tears. 😭😭😭 It's time. It's definitely time. I'm going to do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

I don't know who needs to see this but forgetting & losing things excessively to the point of it having an extremely detrimental effect on your life is an example of a DISABILITY, not a cute or funny little quirk. ADHD is recognized as a disability for a reason.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

My first ever conversation with a practitioner about an autism evaluation (for myself) went like this... Him: I have some questions before we move forward. First, did you have a speech delay?

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Why I drank as an autistic person... why I stopped... and why I'll never drink again #autismawareness

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Today is exactly 1 year since I stopped drinking alcohol. Which is pretty huge. So in honor of this milestone... I'm going to share the 3 reasons I used to drink as an autistic person... the reason I chose to stop... and why I'll never drink again. Here goes...

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

If you're reading this I want you to know something. You are not too much. You are exactly enough. And I appreciate that so much about you. Thank you for being you. 🤗❤️

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Why do so many people pretend like there's some magical perfect way to communicate that clearly doesn't exist? And why is it that autistic people are somehow. always. wrong. no matter how much we contort ourselves to do it the only. correct. way. which changes from one moment to the next? 🤔

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments