Category: Common Misconceptions

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Why Autistic People May Not Understand Your Reaction to Their Behavior

This is not rare. Many autistic adults can look back on childhood and remember versions of this happening again and again. We would be quietly minding our own business, and then an adult would seem to appear out of nowhere already irritated, already blaming, already assuming we knew the social rule we had broken.

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The Functional Purpose of Autistic Questions – FREE eBook Download by Jaime A. Heidel – The Articulate Autistic

Does your autistic loved one ask lots of questions? As a neurotypical (non-autistic person), you may wonder if the autistic person in your life is being rude or has a hidden agenda. However, you’ll...

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Your Autistic Loved One Doesn’t Know What You’re Reacting To, and It’s Causing Trauma

When people who have little experience with mental illness hear the term ‘complex PTSD’, their minds automatically conjure images of sustained physical abuse or one major traumatic life event that permanently altered one’s nervous...