#Teen Autism Support

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Autism gifts for teens are thoughtfully chosen items designed to support and engage adolescents on the autism spectrum. These gifts often cater to sensory needs, special interests, and skills development. Popular options include noise-cancelling headphones for auditory sensitivity, weighted blankets for comfort, and fidget toys for stress relief. Tech-savvy teens might appreciate tablets or smartwatches with organizational apps. Special interest-related gifts, such as books, collectibles, or hobby kits, can be particularly meaningful. Social skills games or interactive video games can promote social engagement. Sensory-friendly clothing or accessories may provide comfort. Educational tools that align with their interests can be both fun and beneficial. When selecting gifts, it's crucial to consider the individual teen's preferences, sensitivities, and unique needs, as autism presents differently in each person.

[jocollins]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale & Eli Hale, Derek Hale & Sheriff Stilinski, Eli Hale & Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf) Characters: Derek Hale, Eli Hale (Teen Wolf), Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf) Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Grieving Derek Hale, Eli Hale is a Little shit, Meltdown, Mental Breakdown, Derek Hale is a Softie, Derek Hale is a good dad, Supportive Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Panic Attacks, Truth, Autistic Derek Hale, Family Feels, Stiles Stilinski is Derek Hale's Anchor, Stiles Stilinski is a Nice Thing, Healing, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Eventual Happy Ending Summary:

Derek finds out that he's been set up for dates, that Eli is setting him up for dates. Unfortunately it's the last drop before everything becomes too much to bear.

[clownrecess]

I want to talk about something very specific: "No, I didn't just speak. Calm down and grow up."

It's incredibly frustrating when people accuse me of saying something with my mouth, even though all I did was make a noise.

Maybe they told me something suprising, so I open my mouth and make a "awoh-" noise. Their eyes widen, and they jump to conclusions, shouting, "I JUST HEARD YOU SAY 'what'!" or any other phrase they think they heard. They start making a big deal out of it. But here's the thing: I didn't speak. I made a noise, a sound that may have resembled speech to them, but it wasn't. It's frustrating because they assume that every sound I make is an attempt at spoken words, or that I "secretly can speak orally" and that this was me "messing up my act".

I CAN'T SPEAK ORALLY! I did not "mess up" anything!

"I JUST HEARD YOU SAY "what"!! I HEARD YOU SAY "what"!! YOU SPOKE! YOU SPOKE!"

"Hahah, I think I just heard you say something! Beat ya at your own game!"

"RAYMOND-- Did you just SPEAK??"

"YOU SPOKE, I HEARD YOU! Don't worry, I don't care, I won't tell anyone."

These are all actual quotes people have said to me. And one of these people was a grown adult.

It's like a hurricane of misunderstanding and frustration swirling around me. Suddenly, people start demanding explanations, throwing questions, and even chastising me for speaking when I never actually did. And no matter how much I try to explain that it was just a noise, not a coherent utterance, nobody believes me. It's very upsetting when nobody believes me, no matter how hard I try to explain the situation. The weight of their skepticism feels crushing.

DISABLED PEOPLE ARE NOT PRETENDING TO BE DISABLED. I genuinely can't use oral speech. I am genuinely nonspeaking. I want to make it clear that my inability to speak orally is not a choice or an act. It is a reality that I navigate every day.

[foldedchip]

Going to college has informed me of how strictly I was treated as a middle/high school student who had mental health conditions. I knew at the time that I was treated strictly, even harshly by some staff members, but it’s another thing to actually experience the difference.

I used to have frequent panic attacks as a kid, usually due to OCD or autism, and my school directly made it worse and worse. Today in class, I had a panic attack, went outside the classroom, and just stayed in one spot until it was over. I felt like I was going to explode, my thoughts had gone out of control and I felt terrified, I didn’t want anyone’s eyes on me, I wanted quiet, so I just moved outside to an environment where I could calm down in silence. No harm done at all. No one batted an eye when they walked past me, even if it looked a little strange for an adult to be sitting with their knees to their chest for twenty minutes. I was treated with more grace as an adult than I was as a child/teenager.

As I came back to myself, I kept thinking about what this used to be like in middle and high school, and how I wasn’t always afforded the freedom to get through such a debilitating experience in an effective way. Some of my teachers were better than others, they would let me step into the hallway, write me a note if I was going to be late for my next class, or re-explain instructions to me if I had missed them. They knew I was struggling but doing the best I could, they put a little trust in me (which I never ever took advantage of), and they were understanding without giving me special treatment. I’m grateful to them. Other teachers said I wasn’t allowed to leave unless it was to go the nurse’s office, but as a kid, I was scared to go there and just wanted to calm down. Several teachers gave me poor participation grades just because I sometimes had to leave the room with a panic attack. I only had a thirty minute lunch period, and only a ten-minute window to actually get a meal to eat. The cafeteria was overwhelming and the opposite kind of environment that would calm me down, so I missed lunch several times because I was having an attack and couldn’t eat until I went home. If I missed lunch, too bad, I wasn’t allowed to eat in their classroom. Sometimes they would only give me five minutes outside the room before forcing me back in with the others. These conditions made my OCD grow out of control, it made the panic attacks come back again and again, nearly every day, causing the situation to get exponentially worse. I was an eleven-year-old in my first year of middle school (or, during the second round of panic attacks, a sixteen-year-old in my first year of high school), and I was constantly well-behaved. I followed the rules perfectly, I was always very polite and respectful, but some of my teachers treated me like a troublemaker that they couldn’t trust out of their sight. Even if I had acted up a lot, I still should have been afforded some understanding. When I was twelve and I dropped out of school, guess what happened? The panic attacks stopped overnight. When I was sixteen and I went home for winter break, guess what? The panic attacks ended overnight. As it turns out, mentally ill students can actually have a chance at managing their conditions when they feel secure in their environment and are not treated like a prisoner (and that is not to say that I don’t support criminals’ rights.) I will always advocate for alternative schooling options so that every kid can get an education in a way that’s actually effective for them, as well as special education and other support programs in schools. I want people to support quality virtual school systems, because they’re not just a write-off for students who got expelled, they’re for any student who doesn’t go to a public or private building school, for any reason.

[gurorori]

if you say shit like 'autism is not a disability' i hope you actually have really bad things happen to you and you are banned from the autism community for the foreseeable future. get another fun weird club if you so badly need one

so profoundly tired of people trying to make autism into this whimsical quirkiness when it's for most people a serious and debilitating life altering disorder

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

What is Masking

Mrs Speechie P

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

Something More

YA contemporary about a Palestinian-Canadian girl starting high school, navigating new crushes and accepting her recent autism diagnosis

[arquaticdreamer]

Having high support needs autism with chronic illnesses and physical disabilities makes others view you as an afterthought, and otherwise a flaw on society or the weakness our society does not wish to talk about or think about. This hits especially for actually nonverbal full time nonspeakers. The apraxia makes everything difficult. There's no way to even verbalize to others "look If I could control the way my body moves I would just so you all stop staring at me or think I'm odd." But not even have spoons for that. Cloud has such hard time leaving house for any appointment or doctor visit. Cloud's insurance doesn't cover doctor visits at home. That's something only the rich and privileged can afford. Cloud hates dealing with chronic pain constantly while having to deal with constantly sensory assault on my nervous system. It sucks and nothing is ever easy.

[weedpicnic]

There’s a devil on my shoulder telling me to go off my medication and never medicate my mental illnesses again and it’s my mom and it’s not imagined at all and she’s kind of starting to get to me like idk maybe ur on to something there but I don’t know how to be a person without various intermittent stimulants anymore

[karlyboyyy]

So I decided to take a few different autism assessments online just to see like the probability that I might be, and as I’m answering the questions I’m trying to think back to my childhood too and I keep coming up with “oh damn I was like that wasn’t I?” Or “Yep I definitely did that I just never thought twice about it” and yeeeah my scores on all these tests are much higher than I even anticipated 🙃🙃🙃

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[clownrecess]

(Tw!! Talk of food, forgetting to eat.)

I want to talk about me and my support needs.

My hygiene isn't very good, I brush my teeth once per day on weekdays and usually zero times on weekends. I shower usually once per week, I try to do more but often can't. I need to be reminded to shower that minimum of one day, or I literally just won't for even longer.

I forget to go the bathroom, so I often won't go for an entire day. I sometimes have to set reminders on my phone to go to the bathroom.

I have very little internal sensation, which is related to the bathroom thing, but it also makes me forget to eat and drink until I can barely move from how much pain I am in.

I am semi-speaking, and use AAC.

I need visual schedules, primarily for showers or I will forget to do like half the steps.

I use ear defenders, and stim toys.

I need nightlights or I'll have extreme anxiety.

My joints pop out of place a lot.

I need lots of reminders, and I HATE getting reminded but I need them or I'll forget to do anything.

I am in special ed.

I wrote this post for a reason. I didn't write it for attention, or to overshare. I wrote it to let you know that you aren't alone, and that you are not "gross" for having certain support needs. You are fantastic, no matter your support needs.

[lilqu33rboi]

I had my first (sort of) interaction with an ableist in public today. It may have been an honest misinterpretation on my part due to my overthinking of social cues and whatnot, so I just wanted to know what people think. (It's a pretty long post, so I'm just gonna seperate it here in case you don't care enough to read it and want to scroll past /nm)

My mom, my sister and I were at a dress sale to buy a dress for my sister for homecoming, and there weren't many people there so I felt comfortable enough to unmask. I was just quietly stimming while my sister picked out dresses, minding my own business, when I accidentally made eye contact with someone else who was looking at dresses near us. And instead of giving a polite smile or whatever, or even looking away like I was about to, she gave me this, like, sympathetic look. Like she pitied me for being visibly autistic. It just made it seem like she thought I was miserable or something, which pissed me off because that couldn't be further from the truth. I was *really* comfortable! The lighting was low and it was relatively quiet, so I was just tapping on a hanger and swaying back and forth on the balls of my feet to prevent understimulation. It was actually quite nice, until this stranger felt like they knew me well enough that they could make the *very accurate assumption* (/s) that just because I was stimming, I was automatically uncomfortable.

Like I said, I might have just misinterpreted this whole thing, and chances are I'm overreacting; I just wanted to make sure that my reaction at least makes a bit of sense.

[hecksupremechips]

Listen I don’t really care about this play anymore and I haven’t interacted with it in ages but in Be More Chill I think Jeremy and Christine were good together and I won’t STAND for everyone in that fandom trying to convince me otherwise!!!!!

[arquaticdreamer]

As a syskid/systeen who’s a forever kid and age regressor yes yes yes! My mental and psychological trauma as severe as it was stunted the part of the brain I access whenever I front at the age of 14-15, yes body is physical adult, but cloud can only access part of brain mentally stunted at early teen age. Syskids and systeens are real actual kids. They cannot consent. It doesn’t mean you’re infantalizing self or other autistics.

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and like doing “childish” things

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and like watching kid’s cartoons

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and like wearing cutesy/Kidcore outfits

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and sleep with a stuffie or pillow

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and wear diapers for fun/comfort

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and age regress

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and like to stim by sucking on a pacifier 

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and you personally compare your own brain to that of child as to better understand yourself 

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and call yourself a kid/child even though you’re a “legal adult”

You’re not “contributing to the infantilisation of autistic people” if you’re autistic and for liking childish things or being child like in nature

Ableists are when they deny you autonomy or assume you’re stupid and need to be treated/talked to like a child just because you’re autistic 

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