Tag: anxiety

  • Stimpunks Community Art: “Mobile – Home” by Heike Blakley

    Stimpunks Community Art: “Mobile – Home” by Heike Blakley

    What it feels like answering my phone. A sense of dread washes over me each time my phone rings and is quickly followed by anxiety due to time frame response.

  • CHAMPS and the Compliance Classroom

    CHAMPS and the Compliance Classroom

    I wrote this in 2016 after witnessing a CHAMPS classroom. My stomach dropped when I saw CHAMPS at our elementary school. “Eyes front, knees front, closed mouth” leapt off the wall and rose from memory. I was in school in the 1970s and 80s. Some teachers were really into table readiness and proper student posture,…

  • The Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions

    The Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions

    We love this fun tweet on the five neurodivergent love locutions from the always insightful Myth. The five neurodivergent love languages: infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body [deep pressure], and “I found this cool rock/button/leaf/etc and thought you would like it” [penguin pebbling] Myth Emotional bids are the…

  • Autism in Care Settings: Managing Sensory Load

    Ann Memmott’s piece on “Useful New Autism Info for Care Settings” lists four great resources on accommodating autism in care settings, including two of our favorites: “It’s Not Rocket Science” and “Experience of Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Autistic Adults”. This is a list of useful research papers and Commissioned documents that have changed how…

  • 20 reasons why I (an autistic person) am stressed pretty much constantly…

    Pete Wharmby is one of our favorite neurodiversity advocates and consultants. We are happy to support his work and recommend adding him to your personal learning network. Here’s a thread from Pete on autistic stressors that we here at Stimpunks very much relate to. 20 reasons why I (an autistic person) am stressed pretty much…