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Anyone here complete any online program to help navigate the world as an autistic person? If so, what program, and what did you think about it? (lemmy.world)
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I'm looking for online programs that help us navigate the world as autistic people. It could be anything, such as learning about autism, neurotypicals, social settings, identifying your emotions, self-care for autistic people, common terms related to autism, autistic love languages, etc...anything that helps autistic people live life.

If you have completed any programs related to being autistic, what were they and what did you think about them? Were they helpful?

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It's neat that you say that about queer spaces! When I was in high school in the late 90s, I was in the LGBTQ club, tho I've never identified as LGBTQ. I found myself there because I was part of the outcasts and fell into since they were accepting. It's like we all accepted and looked after each other.

I appreciate that you pointed out internalizing our difficulties as character deficiencies. I've definitely been affected by that and have been working to get rid those beliefs in the past year. I can see the overlap with LGBTQ. Pretty interesting. Thank you very much!