Category: Anxiety

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Anxiety Autism Meltdowns Opinion Safety Surviving Symptoms

I’m Autistic. I Fear Cops….

Photo of personalized Medical Alert bracelet that warns first responders that I'm autistic.
Photo of personalized Medical Alert bracelet that warns first responders that I'm autistic.

I fear every police officer & cop car I see.
And in 21st Century America… I see them everywhere.

So I bought a Medical Alert Bracelet. To protect myself from “helping” First Responders…

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Anxiety Autism Symptoms

What My Autism Looks Like… Right NOW.

Dark illustration split between an infant's tear and an adult's face.
Dark illustration split between an infant's tear and an adult's face.

Can’t wrap my head around it. Not this moment in history… Not this moment in my life…

Not this  m o m e n t

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Accomodating Anxiety Autism Meltdowns Shutdowns Symptoms

Managing My Autism… A Personal Panic List

When the fog of meltdown comes on, I can’t think of what to do in that moment… to just deal….

So I made a little list…

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Anxiety Aspergers Aspie Autobiography Memory Symptoms

Confessions of an #AdultAutistic Anxiety Junkie

To cope with the increasingly more complicated demands of #AdultAutistic life, Johnny Profane has relied on the adrenaline rush of fear and anxiety to push him into action and get his mind in gear.