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Longest night almost over , Pixie So ready for more sun time …

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“ River through the forest “

Pixies most recent tiny painting . Pixie very surprised this came out looking so good because .

Very bad shaking hands today . this tiny canvas took so long time and so much hurting to make …

But Pixie really like , even a little sad not can keep . But hope somebody see it at Art show and buys it and help support Pixies art studio !!!

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So much snow at the road to alpine skiing place !!!

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Guardian Librarian just got Pixies skis to get fixed ready for Special Olympics skiing season Pixie so very exciting !!!

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hi pixie! this is will's cat sooty! sooty does not meow, she is very quiet and she loves to play in her box and show her tummy off! will hopes you enjoy the pictures and also wants you to know your paintings are very good and will is very inspired by them!

Kitty in box ! Is so very cute thank you for share !

Pixie have a kitty really likes boxes and other kitty like hide in paper bags and under blankets and clothes So have be so careful not to squish kitty …

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finished cookies ! ! and guardian Wizard said them cookies are good !

Pixie make pretty gluten free cookies finally !!!

Not know if they taste good , but they look good ! Pumpkin cookies , and with cream cheese frosting when they cold !

Pixie like baking things with caregiver

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Pixie make pretty gluten free cookies finally !!!

Not know if they taste good , but they look good ! Pumpkin cookies , and with cream cheese frosting when they cold !

Pixie like baking things with caregiver

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More tiny paintings for Art show with Pixie's art studio for artists with IDD

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Pixie really not okay with new diagnosis .

Pixie not smart enough to understand it .

Pixie have hard time just remembering it . until something forces Pixie to remember , which every time is traumatic , meltdowns , Hit Pixie . hurt head .

Pixie be so very overwhelmed . Pixie DO NOT WANT this . And . Have hard time just try to trust guardian Wizard , just try believe . but . not can DO .

Just want it all go away . let Pixie just be only one . is just too too much for Pixie . Pixie too cognitively disabled for this . is NOT FAIR . head hurting all day all week all time 😭😭😭

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So very true . Some Pixie experience include people were actually been actively trying to keep they distance from high support needs autism people ( like Pixie ) .

lot of "autism safe spaces" not safe for hsn autistics .

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Pixie not Expect more pretty flowers so these were makes Pixie very happy to see .

Pixie been really have hard time . because of . Pixie not can understand all the new words used with dissociative identity disorder . It all too complicated for Pixie :(

But . Pixie find pretty yellow flowers make Pixie smile little .

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I made a survey for nonverbal people!!

Please do this survey if you are nonverbal!!

I aim to have at-least 50 nonverbal people respond before I post results on our tumblr, which is a huge amount of nonverbal people to find because we are quite rare to be on a lot of platforms. You can help by rebloging so it can have a a big sample size!!

This is not for verbal people, or even carers of nonverbal people! It is for nonverbal people themselves. If you need help from someone else to do the survey that is absolutely okay!! Just not a carer doing it for a nonverbal person with no input from them.

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Winter sun

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Tiny 2x2in canvas with acrylic paint “ cherry tree flowers “ .

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Pixie get told that all the time . and . is so very invalidating of Pixies severe language disability . And . Is absolutely not a good or positive thing to say . even if is intend to be compliment , it really is not .

What it do sound like is that . the person is claiming to know Pixies disability better than Pixie self . and . that is so not okay to say about anyone .

I HATE when people say "they communicate just fine" About a nonverbal person in their life.

No. How do you know that for sure? Unless you are inside that persons head and know everything they want to say, and know that all those things they do say...

Do not tell me they communicate just fine based of a presumption.

The thing about communicating is, if someone cannot communicate effectively, there's a good chance they also can't communicate they cannot communicate effectively to you!!

And if they have told you they don't feel like their communication with others is as functional as they want, then you tell them that they communicate just fine, stop making assumptions…

They communicate just fine because the only things you see them communicate are things they are successfully communicating!! Obviously!!

(Some cases you can actually tell a person is attempting to communicate something that they are struggling to communicate, for example having many meltdowns/dangerous behaviours because struggling to communicate how to fix it or actually trying to use their AAC device but struggling to and failing and more!!!! But that's not always the case 😊)

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So much this . It got so bad , so intensely frustrating , that Pixie now almost never even try communicating using AAC device with people what are not family . Pixie will make a family person translate Pixies home sign , or , more often , just say Nothing …

is so much hard , Painful , isolating , dehumanizing …

When having a conversation with others, make sure everyone in the conversation is getting a chance to speak and everyone who is speaking gets a chance to finish their thought. Avoid speaking over others or cutting others off. Even if you do accidentally interrupt someone before they had a chance to finish their thought, give them a chance to finish by saying something along the lines of "sorry for interrupting, please continue what you were saying"

And, if you do notice someone in the group keeps trying to speak but someone else keeps speaking over them, or someone else speaks first every time they try to open their mouth, you can create an opening for them by saying "what did you want to say?/what was it you were saying?" or you can look at them after someone else in the group has spoken over them / cut them off and say "go on, I'm still listening" to make them feel heard and included.

Ideally in a conversation everyone deserves equal speaking time, and everyone deserves to finish their thought. If someone is dominating the conversation by not giving others the chance to speak and interrupting others before they can finish their thoughts, it can give the impression that they view what they have to say as more important and more valuable that what others in the conversation have to say.

Likewise if someone isn't getting the opportunity to speak or finish their thought due to always being spoken over, it gives the impression that others in the conversation don't value what they have to say, that what they have to contribute to the conversation isn't as valuable or as important as what those dominating the conversation are contributing.