ASD information
About SPD
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What Is Hyposensitivity?
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Autistic individuals are less likely to conform, in part because conformity feels less gratifying and comforting to them than to other people. Autists’ inbuilt resistance to peer pressure and authority, combined with their outsider status and precise language, allows them to notice and describe society’s flaws better than those comfortably immersed... See more
Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
there have often been references to gendered differences in socialization, speculating that a greater emphasis on social niceties – on compliance and conformity – produced the ‘quieter’ form of autism allegedly more characteristic of autistic females. So much quieter, indeed, that it often fails to register as autism at all.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
When an Autistic person is not given resources or access to self-knowledge, and when they’re told their stigmatized traits are just signs that they’re a disruptive, overly sensitive, or annoying kid, they have no choice but to develop a neurotypical façade. Maintaining that neurotypical mask feels deeply inauthentic and it’s extremely exhausting to
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Slow processing speed: What is it and how can it affect somebody? - Aspiedent
aspiedent.comFear of Being Perceived
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