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Reasons for avoidance – Riko's blog: PDA and more.
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30 Day Blog Challenge. Riko’s PDA journey. PDA test for adults. Riko's blog: PDA and more. This WordPress.com site is demand avoidance free ;). December 31, 2016. There are many different reasons why a person will avoid something. Whilst most PDA demand avoidance stems from anxiety, the reason for the anxiety may be different each time. Knowing why something causes demand avoidance might help reduce anxiety by accommodating needs to ensure the reasons for demand avoidance are reduced. Notify me of new co...
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August | 2016 | autisticzebra
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Incognito Autistic… in London. August 5, 2016. August 5, 2016. ETA: I have my children’s full blessing to mention them in this post, as it would be very hard to write about what I got up to, and why, without doing so. Though my husband says my facial expression expressed ‘get me off this thing! I won’t go into details on how the rest of the night went. Let’s just say, none of us got much sleep. We never do, especially away from home, which was why we’d limited the trip to two ni...As we’d all had e...
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Happy New Year, Happy New Bullet Journal | autisticzebra
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Happy New Year, Happy New Bullet Journal. January 8, 2017. So, one of the key pieces of advice by the developer of Bullet Journalling is to start each new year with a fresh Bulket Journal, even if the previous one wasn’t used all the way to the end. Following this advice, I’ve started a new bullet journey for 2017. And, again as per advice, I’ve tweaked it a little, keeping what worked and changing what didn’t. So, what’s different? I also added a few new tasks to my daily habits tracker. And new sym...
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September | 2016 | autisticzebra
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She’ll Eat it When She’s Hungry. September 29, 2016. Sharing this as it mirrors a lot of both my past, and how I now handle my family’s eating issues with love and acceptance. No she won’t. And I never did. From an early age my parents watched my stubborn refusal to eat and took me to the GP on many occasions. The ultimate finicky eater. My Mum tore her hair out at. Source: She’ll Eat it When She’s Hungry. Memories of a road trip. Part 2. September 29, 2016. September 29, 2016. We didn’t have time ...
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October | 2016 | autisticzebra
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What does she look like again? October 25, 2016. Reading up on autism, back when I was starting in this journey of self-awareness, I came across the term prosopagnosia. Or the time I mistook a girl with long blonde hair for my long-haired boyfriend in a crowded pub. Yeah, totally blamed my eyesight for that, even though my glasses were the correct prescription. All those mistaken identity cases were purely my eyesight, right? She had curly brown hair, maybe. That was as far as I got. So, yet again, IR...
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December Tiger Haul | autisticzebra
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December 11, 2016. Anyway, here’s my non-Christmassy Tiger haul from today:. Clockwise from top left: a bag of pretzels, a Fibre optic lamp, a sewing kit in a tin, a tape dispenser including a variety of tapes, glow-in-the-dark frogs, colouring pencils in a tin (for my new bullet journal in January), pack of AA batteries, pack of AAA batteries, a green watch, a pink watch.]. Nothing beats lying in her bed, with the darkness all lit up by her many lights! Autism research: who’s it really for? 70 of the ab...
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Back to basics: Flares. January 25, 2017. I haven’t been feeling too well lately. A combination of the rise of fascism, and worry about my children, may have been what has sparked up this flare in my symptoms. Or it may be just a totally random occurrence. Who knows? Anyway, I thought I might write down some of the things I normally do during these types of flare-ups. Both to remind myself, and in case it might be useful for someone. Speaking of heat packs, one place I keep them is in a box next to my be...
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January | 2017 | autisticzebra
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Back to basics: Flares. January 25, 2017. I haven’t been feeling too well lately. A combination of the rise of fascism, and worry about my children, may have been what has sparked up this flare in my symptoms. Or it may be just a totally random occurrence. Who knows? Anyway, I thought I might write down some of the things I normally do during these types of flare-ups. Both to remind myself, and in case it might be useful for someone. Speaking of heat packs, one place I keep them is in a box next to my be...