Autistic Masking is not a simple social fake. Prolonged masking has serious mental health implications for autistics; level up your knowledge so can learn to embrace your autistic loved one as their authentic self.
This will be the most unexpected approach to suicide prevention you have ever encountered, and therein lies the beauty of this article.
Discussing suicide attempts and responding in crisis is always hard. Talking about it will help prepare people for these hard conversations.
Autistic people are more vulnerable to addiction and suicide, and yet this is not discussed. We need to start talking about this now to reduce stigma and provide resources to those in need.
Sometimes, doctors and therapists neglect to consider that they are the reason their clients are experiencing depression.
NeuroClastic is partnering with Black Lives Matter 757 to participate in the #NoDejahVu #SelfieForSuicidePrevention campaign as September 6-12 is Suicide Prevention Week.
How did autistic and other neurodivergent kids survive the Dark Ages before IEPs, 504 plans, targeted therapy, noise-canceling headphones?
Here’s some brutal autistic truth-telling for you…
Many barriers exist that keep autistic people from maintaining their health and self care best practices, and this can have catastrophic effects on autistic individuals.
A look at the disturbingly-short life span for autistics and some of the factors which may be behind the bleak numbers.
Let me introduce you to a figure from the folklore of Japan called the Futakuchi-onna. Her name means “two-mouthed woman,” and she comes from a country facing a crisis of self-care. In fact, at the end of last year, the youth suicide rate in Japan had reached its highest in thirty years. The stress of a work-centric culture along with a strong stigma against reaching out for mental health care are thought to be major factors for the suicide rates in Japan, and are things many of us can relate to on some level. Perhaps then, it is somehow appropriate that we can learn about the dangers and effects of neglecting ourselves through the story of the Futakuchi-onna.
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