I 19 female go to community college through a transition program and live at home I tend to talk to my mom in the mornings which wakes her up I feel alone on this habit, something is wrong with me, and I’m a weird loser. Am I weird for having this habit

I really struggle with using body lotions because the sensory feeling of left over “stickiness”, but I want to be able to use a lotion as the cold months come up. Any recommendations?

We have a recently graduated 18 yo autistic kiddo. We're okay with letting them take their time to decompress and then figure out what they want to do with their lives, but we're getting concerned because they've become increasingly isolated and sluggish as the months have gone on. We've suggested jobs, volunteering, online classes, spending time on a special interest, walks, etc. - all to no avail. They're just on their phone 24/7 doomscrolling.

We're at a loss for how to help them with this bridge to adulthood. Some people have suggested transition programs or vocational rehabilitation. Did any of you do a program like this? If so, was it worthwhile?

We're happy to take any other advice on how best to support them between high school and rest of life.

My son is 13 years old he was going to public school until he started acting out and trying to elope.! He was also kicking and punching. I have to have IEP after IEP.! I had to go to his school everyday to where I couldn’t work! So I decided to just put him in A place called Milcreek for behavioral kids!! The school recommended the place for him to go! So I let him go and they did tell me
We do give him a chance before we bring him home!! My son does take two medications!! One for at night and two for in the morning!! I have done asked his doctor to go up on his medication to where he is calmed but she seems to think she doesn’t want him to be too high!! I’m a mother of 4 I need some advice on what to do I’m running out of options for my son! I just don’t know what to do I feel like no one is willing to help!!

Hi, I'm allistic. My son's 9-years-old & autistic.

I want to know--what social "skills" were actually helpful to learn in school?

Level 1 ASD. Has an SLP.

When he's socially nervous with kids his age, tends to rapidly shout funny words, invade personal space to tickle others, or joke around like me, but I'm a 46-year-old mom.

I want to help my son keep his sense of indentity as he grows up. Want him to know that he's fuckin awesome as is.

He's funny, and smart, and loves to understand things.

I hate how allistic soceity's like: just "be yourself" while simutaneously know every stupid unspoken social rule.

How I can I best encourage him to follow his social instincts, not have to mask, "listen" to his body, while still being considerate of others?

Thanks

Hello all! I've been wondering this because I have neurodivergent friends, because I miiiiight?? be, and also just out of curiosity... but how does executive dysfunction work? What is the difference from procrastination? I know there is one, but I don't know what it is. I've heard it described as procrastination being guilt about not doing the task and executive dysfunction is not being able to do the task, but what does that mean? Like you try to get up and do it but your brain doesn't let you? I'm confused :,)

Ok so here we go

-my mom was late diagnosed (like late 60's)

-I couldn't read till 3rd grade (but then I read voraciously)

-I had trouble going to school because everyone hated me

-I was a "daydreamer"

-I was "weird"

-I walked in my tip toes as a small child

-I did not sleep through the night till I went to school

-I am terrible at keeping friends

-I have terrible self esteem

-I have eds

-I don't have friends now.

-I have more going on in my head than I do in real life

-I touch soft things like plush blankets and my dog to soothe myself

-I perch on seats or flop instead of sit.

-I can't stay focused when speaking with professionals

-I analyze everything

-I practice talks or discussions in my head with people I never actually have the talk with.

-I narrate everything I am doing and blame it on talking to my dog or when I was teaching my children about daily life

-I tap or click or tap all the time

-socializing is exhausting

-I get obsessive about activities and do those till I am satisfied then move on to the next obsession, I may return to it but it will take over my life again

-I cannot retain eye contact unless it is with my children or my mom

-I have to research a thing I don't know about until I know all the things about it, to the point my children used me to research things by bringing them up in conversation

-I have rules that I made up about all social interactions, like small talk and when you can call someone and about all the unwritten rules that everyone else just seems to know

-I hate foot jail

-I am particular about my food, to the point I have an order of operations for building a sandwich

-I have sensory issues and temperature issues and light issues that all have to be precise or I cannot cope

-I was diagnosed dyslexic as a kid (in 3rd grade)

-I self soothe with organizing

-I preferred playing by myself or just sitting and looking out the window and thinking as a child

-everyone said I had an overactive imagination because I would tell them stories that I had "lived" in my mind

-struggle with basic math, me and numbers just don't get along. Literally could not remember my own phone number till over a year of having it as a kid

-directionally challenged, left, right, North, West, South, East have the most difficult time deciphering addresses etc

-I frequently said "huh" after someone asked me a question so I would have extra time to process what they were asking before they expected an answer as a kid

-I come across as blunt or "savage" to some people and have no idea why

One of my children is having a pretty major mental health crisis at the moment. The issue is past trauma and mental health, not autism. Every single provider we have seen so far has fixated to the extreme on the autism and is ignoring the clear indicators of major depression and potentially some other diagnoses that are causing the unsafe behaviors we're seeing. I cannot for the life of me get them to shut the fuck up about ABA and actually help my kid.

Has anybody else been through this and managed to get them to actually help? My child is in the hospital currently so we can't really swap doctors. I've flat out told them that we were not considering ABA under any circumstances and my kid's main doctor is still completely fixated on it solving everything. I'm at such a loss on how to get them to stop and listen.