Wolfheart Sanchez talks about the sensory hell of a doctor’s office and the multiple concurrent tracks that play through an overstimulated autistic person’s brain.
If you want to stop autistic meltdowns, you will need to understand why they happen and what causes them. You can prevent them by using your position of authority to be an accomplice in co-regulation.
Autistic meltdowns have made me a better person. It’s strange to frame it like this, but it’s true. I’ve come to a place where I am grateful for them, and I welcome them into my home.
Asiatu Lawoyin, at age 42, experienced their first PTSD flashback from childhood sexual abuse. Asiatu unpacks the space between the trauma and the flashback through the lens of being Black and autistic.
Autistic meltdowns are an inevitable and necessary part of our lives. When they become part of the shame-rage cycle, we start to see problems.
After a poorly-timed meltdown at a wedding, Jude Clee thinks about what she wished people understood about meltdowns.
Lauren Melissa had no idea what was happening to her when she would dissolve into rage, confusion, or even blacking out. Once she was finally diagnosed as autistic, she had the self-knowledge to take control.
Being told that autistic neurological reactions are dramatic and overblown is an often-unintentional but very real cause of complex trauma.
Before I was diagnosed and was made aware of what shutdowns were, they always troubled me. I recall them happening many many times throughout my
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