True Health
In this blog, Sarah embraces being healthy, mind, body, and soul. She wrote that "I am no supermodel. But in a way, I feel like one because I feel beautiful inside and out."
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I am more than enough!
In this blog, Out-of-Sync Woman highlights some of her struggles with feeling like she is not enough. She wants to change the way she thinks about herself in a more positive light. She is excited about May being National Mental Health Awareness Month as their campaign is #MoreThanEnough
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My Experiences Learning Self-Advocating
Out-of-Sync Woman answers a question "how do you teach your child to Self advocate" by looking backward to her school days and to the present. She explains how her mom taught in many way to stand up for herself.
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Room for improvement
While Out-of-Sync-Woman appreciates the theme of Celebrating Autism during the month of April, she feels that there is lots of room for improvement. She believes that there are four areas that need to be addressed in order to start to better and more fully support the Autism population.
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Autism Acceptance Month: Blogging with ASD
Khylil shares his joy in typing and blogging for ASDNext. He answers a few questions and goes into more detail about how he has changed and grown as a blogger.
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Adventures in History
Sarah shares her love of love history and learning new facts. She talks about her most recent trip to Philadelphia to see the sights including museum that were featured in a block buster movie.
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Not Being Believed Due To My Disability
Ziggie find out that self advocacy doesn't always work when his heater where he lives' breaks down. Ziggie feels unheard due to not being believed by his landlord about his broken heater. He learns to be successful in advocating the other person needs to willing to listen and help too.
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A Reflection of ASD Years After My Diagnosis.
Ziggie reflects on how he was diagnosis with Autism and how it changed his life for the better. He was able to learn more about himself gowning up and the Autism community.
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Focusing on employment
Out-of-Sync-Woman believes that we must go beyond "Autism Acceptance" in the month of April. One of the importin areas that need attention is employment for people on the Autism Spectrum. "Having the opportunity to contribute to the workforce gives me much more than a paycheck. It allows her to feel more secure in my world and it allows me to build skills, make friends, and learn new things."
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Stimming on the Autism Spectrum
In this blog Khylil goes into details about how stimming has always been a part of his life. He also writes about the many ways he use's stimming as an adult in his every day life. Khylil share's the many ways Stimming has been a positive part and should be celebrated as part of the Autism way of life
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Two cat conundrum blog
"Have you the reader ever experienced things going differently than you planned?" Out-of-Sync Woman looks back and wonders if she should have adopted another cat. Since two cats are more work and cost more than one.
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The First ASD Diagnosis – Donald Triplett – Beloved Neighbor and Traveler
In this blog, Ziggie shares the story of Donald Triplett, the first person diagnosed with autism and notes how recent this part of history actually is to our current time. Ziggie also reflects on the successes of both Donald and the autistic community since the first diagnosis, and shares his hopes for continued progress.
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Colors have many feelings that go with them like when you say someone is blue/sad. Sarah shares some of the meanings she relates to each color in this blog. "It recently occurred to me that the feelings or emotions that I associate with colors may be different than what others do. That’s why I was inspired to write this blog, to share what each color means to me."
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Untangling autism blog
Out-of-Sync-Woman often struggles with social anxiety which makes leaving her apartment very difficult to do. It's easier to avoid other people, rather than deal with her anxiety regarding other people. She wonders how much of her problem's she shares with other on the Autism Spectrum vs what are her issues alone.
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ASDNext: Who are we really?
This blog summarizes ASDNext's mission to help support people with Autism and what we hope to do going forward.
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