deafmic:

deafmic:

i started reading this book today about living independently as an autistic adult (written by an autistic woman, too) and the writer mentioned that one of her coping skills when trying to figure out her own feelings was imagining the situation in the context of her special interest (which happens to be history, and medieval history iirc), so when she was trying to understand her meltdowns, she put it in the context of people under siege barricading themselves in a town and how when they do that, while theyre safe in the moment, things will eventually boil over and they’ll have to leave and that was why she was having meltdowns. i really like that technique and wanna use it, since imagining my situation in the context of my favorite characters makes things easier for me bc i understand others’ emotions much better than my own.

the book is called ‘living independently on the autism spectrum’ if anyone’s interested. i read about 60 pages of it today and it’s very good and helpful. i really like that it’s written by an autistic person and there’s a lot of quotes in the book from other autistic adults who are writers, teachers, and researchers. it’s really good and tho im not done with it, i’d really recommend it. 

oh also, i forgot to mention int he original post, but i really like the way the book is written. it’s very easy to understand. one thing i particularly like is that so far, it hasn’t called non autistic people ‘normal’ or implied that an autistic person’s way of thinking is ‘wrong’ or ‘weird’, and instead describes our way of thinking as simply ‘different from a neurotypical person’s thinking’. also they never call NT people normal or regular people and only use the term neurotypical for them.

it uses a lot of recognizable autistic language too, like stimming and special interest. there’s also a glossary of idioms where the writer explains what specific sayings mean.