Notices by Heather Cook🖖Autistic Coach (hmm_cook@universeodon.com), page 2

Within the traditional family values framework, generally one person works and one person takes care of all of the domestic duties. Which basically means that if that is the case, a good amount of the world is being supported by someone.

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When you don’t know how something affects you, it’s very difficult to make it any better.

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Will a diagnosis make me feel more autistic? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVBP1BCHoO8

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Government assistance programs are there for when you need the help, when you can’t do it on your own, when you don’t have someone else to do it for you. It’s okay to use those.

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For many Autistics and AuDHDers, we need a lot more rest for our nervous systems to process, to downregulate, to actually feel rested.

There’s nothing wrong with that and there’s nothing wrong with you.

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Are Big Life Changes Worth It?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSp84FHFo6c&t=63s

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You’ve been gathering data for decades on what a normal life should look like, but what if you refocused to looking more towards what a healthy, functioning Autistic life could look like, and live into that more and more?

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Whatever the goal is, what do you need to make it actually practical? And then what are the supports that you need to be able to do that?

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I'm now on Blue Sky! @autismchrysalis.bsky.social if you want to follow me there. It'll be the same content though.

Without those expectations of how I “should” function, I’ve found lots of ways to help myself deal with the parts of life that I genuinely find difficult.

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I know it’s not just as simple as just “not thinking about that stuff”. But there are some ways that you can disengage from those thoughts.

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Here's Why I Get Mad When People Compliment My Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-pnVRcsbYU&t=415s

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Becoming more aware of what is going on inside you, both physically and emotionally, is invaluable.

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An autism tax? #actuallyautistic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxrLvo8cTQ

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The domestic labor that you contribute to a household saves the equivalent cash that it would take to replace that work.

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Our capitalist culture tells us that we’re supposed to be working constantly, and that you’re not allowed to rest. You need to “push through”, you need to “power through”. But you don’t.

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What's Next After Adult Autism Identification?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBW4gDVZDw&t=29s

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It’s very important to know not just what you need, but what you need to not be there.

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(Re)Building Self Trust After You Learned You're Autistic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1TlaTYNL-Y

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Resting is more than just not working.

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