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Dental Anxiety and Autism: Understanding and how to Help
Many people dislike being at the dentist's office. For a child on the autism spectrum, it can be an especially distressing and difficult experience. They may feel uncomfortable with strangers getting close to them, so imagine how they feel when that stranger not only...
Eating Habits and the Autism Spectrum
Nutrition Many children on the autism spectrum show inflexibility in their eating habits. This can manifest as a strong preference for specific types, shapes, textures, smells, or other characteristics that are important to them. Additionally, since they often...
Understanding Sensory Sensitivity
One way to understand sensory sensitivity is to get into a closed car, turn on the radio with the volume set uncomfortably high, and try to stay there for half an hour. You could also wear clothes two sizes too small and walk around outside in them. Or perhaps sit...
Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most stigmatized and even demonized conditions in clinical practice, often unjustly so. There is great and important variability between individuals, and each person is a world of their own. Many of those dealing...
High functioning adults with social disability
This week Tallulah Willis, daughter of well-known actors, announced that she was diagnosed at the age of 30 and shared the relief that this late diagnosis brought with it. In my eyes, her article has enormous importance for many adults and children who are...
Read This if Your Child is an Introvert
This week Tallulah Willis, daughter of well-known actors, announced that she was diagnosed at the age of 30 and shared the relief that this late diagnosis brought with it. In my eyes, her article has enormous importance for many adults and children who are...