Browse Feed Entries By Tag: art as a RSShttps://autismanimated.com/dolph/m/feed/browse/tag/art as aBrowse Feed Entries By Tag: art as a RSSWed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:14 -0700<![CDATA[How to Use Art as an Effective Way to Teach Children on the Spectrum]]>Read more]]>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:14 -0700<![CDATA[Was Napoleon Bonaparte on the Autism Spectrum?]]>Read more]]>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:19 -0700<![CDATA[Book Review: Art as a Language for Autism]]>Read more]]>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:16 -0700<![CDATA[What Art and Fatherhood have Taught me about Autism]]>Read more]]>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:19 -0700<![CDATA[My “Autism Is Showing” Moments]]>Read more]]>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:30 -0700<![CDATA[Stress: How I Increase My Capacity or “Spoons”]]> CAPACITY => STRESS TASKS = CAPACITY => HEALTHY EXCITEMENT TASKS < CAPACITY => RELAXATION According to many psychologists, the tasks are formed by factors and demands from your environment that cause stress. The load capacity is then determined by your ability to prevent and deal with stress. But it is more nuanced than that. Especially people with autism, AD(H)D and/or a psychological vulnerability know that the tension can also come from within. Through fear of the unknown, for example. Fortunately, the opposite is also true: the stress can also come from within yourself, for example because you have developed compensatory strategies and dare to ask your friends for help. From the model above you can actually deduce what you can do to reduce your stress: increase your load capacity and reduce your tasks. But how do these two things work in practice? Difference Between Stress and Anxiety In the literature, stress is typically defined as caused by an external trigger, whereas anxiety is defined by internal ones (such as worries that don’t go away even in the absence of a stre... Read more]]>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:13 -0800<![CDATA[Don’t Let Your Autism Show]]>Read more]]>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:10 -0700<![CDATA[Peaceday 2021 – A Turning Point for Humanity]]>Read more]]>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:18 -0700<![CDATA[The Heartbreak and Shame of Pretending to be “Normal” in A Neurotypical World]]>Read more]]>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:00:07 -0800<![CDATA[Impostor Syndrome: masking and problematic connections]]>Read more]]>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:13 -0700