Who Am I? Printable Resource for Connecting with Your Core Self
Terra Vance
October 3, 2022
Free printable resource to help you connect to your Core Self and begin to separate your identity from your masks.
PTSD
On Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, Codependency, & Identity: How to get out from behind the masks
Terra Vance
October 2, 2022
Being forced to mask as a matter of existence pushes people into codependency and rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and causes them a lifetime of trauma.
Autistic masking is why I have no friends
Faith Vance
September 21, 2022
“Despite being in a setting where I’m suppose to be my full, authentic self, I still can’t break down those walls and act like myself for fear of judgement.”
Inside The Judge Rotenburg Center Live Event
Sara W.
July 23, 2022
On Monday, July 25th at 1 pm Eastern Time, the NeuroClastic team goes live with a former JRC Center worker for an interview. Join us!
Life with Autism, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Cats
David Chin
January 10, 2022
After surviving a war zone in Saudi Arabia and Beirut and returning to the US, David Chin found himself face down in a puddle in a grocery store parking lot, screaming “AIR RAID!” when he heard thunder. He was diagnosed with PTSD and told to get a pet.
I Was Part of the “Good ABA”
Lieu
August 27, 2021
Louis Stay wanted help autistic children when he took a job as an RBT. The clinic was advertised as the modern “good ABA” that avoided the harmful practices associated with ABA’s history.
Neuroception 101: How the mindbody scans and adapts for safety and danger
Donna "Ara" Munier
August 5, 2021
Neurodivergent occupational therapist, Ara Munir, explains Neuroception, a sensory response to actual or perceived threats in the environment.
Swallowed Whole: Inside an Autistic PTSD Flashback
asiatucoach
July 15, 2021
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.
Review: Sensory Trauma: autism, sensory difference and the daily experience of fear
hyperactivehypatia
May 6, 2021
This qualitative exploration helps us understand how a community of parents and professionals all claiming to be focused on the wellbeing of autistics have come to be at such a divide from autistic advocates themselves, delicately unfolding one of the core phenomenological aspects of the autistic experience that has been hidden in plain sight for so many years.
Autism, Fire Alarms, & School Fire Drills
Alex Sprague
November 25, 2020
For many autistic students, school fire drills can be deeply upsetting. For Alex, the fear of the next one was so traumatizing that it prevented access to a free and appropriate education.
