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It's hard for me to slow down. When my body says to rest but my mind says go-go-go. Battles that rage in my head daily.
As evident I'm a work-o-holic. From the time I get up until I go to bed, I'm working. A Full-time Job and at least two passion projects that I try to give attention to every day.

My son is autistic, non verbal. He attends a childcare who has applied for inclusion support. However they today handed me a letter to sign which outlines I cannot leave me son with their care more than 6 hours a day. If I go over the 6 hours I will be charged $35 an hour.
I'm so upset and feel so disappointed. I was planning on returning back to work however cannot due to this restriction.

Hi there all, we're looking to highlight the experiences of people on the autistic spectrum struggling with public bathrooms. i.e. the sensory overload from air dryers and automatic flushes. We think this is a really important issue that is not in the public conversation so please get in touch if you want to share an experience around this.

My son will be five next month but he doesn’t understand the concept of age or birthdays. Are there any learning tools or apps that would help him learn about counting/numbers, letters, etc.? I’m trying to enroll him in some kind of structured program and vacillating between ABA therapy, a special ed classroom or general ed pre-school/T-K. He hasn’t grasped basic concepts of learning and is mostly non-verbal. However, he goes to speech therapy several days a week and it has helped him. TIA for… read more

my daughter has severe PICA. she will eat anything..... literally! any ideas on something she can stim with that she cant eat that is bendable? she likes straight things like string, shoe laces, chew necklace/bracelet, yarn, straws etc. But she will eat them all.!!!!!!

When I was around eight years old, I began to have anger issues. I had outbursts, would call people names, and would even hit others. It came to a head when I slapped my grandmother in front of my family. My mother took me to a therapist and after three or so months I was much better. She didn't conclude I was Autistic for some reason, but that's a whole other story.

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