Jaime A. Heidel - The Articulate Autistic
Communicate more effectively with your autistic loved one.
Invalidating an autistic person’s sensory experience can lead to complex trauma. Autistic people do not habituate to sensory input.
I’ve heard of masking at work, but this late-identified autistic woman was told to get Botox to “fix” her natural facial expressions!
Science has proven that exposure therapy for autistic sensory sensitivities does not work (and it causes emotional harm).
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