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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rahere" data-source="post: 5304" data-attributes="member: 2904">Autiteach reflects the "in society, but not part of society" facet. Leave us alone, let us be. If it gets too much, there's nowhere for me to shelter. I can scream for help, nobody comes.Where does this come from? You call it meltdown, but it's more than a simple word like that. Two subclasses are obvious, PTSD in fugue form, and Pavlov's Transmarginal Inhibition. That's when it becomes more than we can process. There may be other reasons too, psychosis doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Ads are particularly bad at assuming neurotypicality, and the more they target me, the less understood I feel - AI is a terrible thing for us. We don't need help from systems predicated on supporting donkeys.If you dig through here, you'll find many comments on things people find stressful. One of my favourite hates is Ikea's liking for portals which are at an angle. I find I want to go through it perpendicularly. That's a case of a "fun" feature causing an ND overreaction. We don't cope well with the aberrant - which is strange, given Wim van Eekelen hired me to cope with crises! But that was before the shrinks messed with my stability.What helps us is grounding techniques. The immediate action therapy is lavender oil. At a further distance is latex - back in the 70s, that created an entire subgroup of the fetish community, but it's far more common to use a latex wristband or the like, now children form a major group of the healer's clientele. Another similar variant on the wider style is the use of weighted blankets, as a simulacrum of TraumaGeek's therapies working with the neurodiverse - her use of shibari was pivotal in breaking my reluctance to associate all forms of access to the subconscious. These are therapies a pharmacist might offer, as they're a community paramedical facility.One trait you'll discover is common to most is masking technique. I was fortunate, having been schooled in secondary in the birthplace of the National Youth Theatre, in direct heritage from Shakespeare's impresario. He provides a pointer, in the Seven Ages of Man, that we in any case change to suit our social roles. It's just that NDs rarely open up. We learn early on that just being us is a total no-hoper - so before you can go to acceptance, you need the shrinks to stop talking at us and start listening to us, so they stop talking a load of claptrap and can teach the rest of the world that Rainman only described one individual, that they depend on us for innovation, and that we've been badly hurt as a result. And that's not going to happen, too many professionals are only in it for the money.</blockquote>

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