Quiz – Autism 2

What is important?

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What are the factors of the environment that affect autistic people?

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What are the 8 senses?

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What are ways to deal with sensory overload?

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What is the meltdown?

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What to do about masking?

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Implications of Alexithymia

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What are helpful self-regulatory behaviours?

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What to do about anxiety?

What to do about burnout?

–Autistic burnout is resulting from chronic life stress and a mismatch of demands and resources available without adequate supports. It is characterised by pervasive, long-term (typically 3+ months) exhaustion, loss of function, and reduced tolerance to stimulus.

–Complete depletion of resources

–Resulting from years of masking and range of demands

–Affecting every part of life for significant time

–Can be career ending

–Mental health, physical health, independent living, increase in suicidal behaviours, self-harm

Thriving strategies

–Very individual to everyone

–Autistic spaces

–Change to the environment

–Sensory comfort: quiet spaces, sensory rooms

–Sensory diet

–Routines, making things predictable

–Unmasking

–Stimming

–Flow states, use strengths

–Passionate interests

–Self-awareness managing the load

–Saying ‘No’

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