Kaelynn Partlow > Quotes

“Just because you can’t see my disability doesn’t mean it’s invisible. My autism is visible to those who know what to look for.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“All this is to say that offering help with problem-solving”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Stimming can help us regulate stress and other emotions. Autistic people might stim more than most because”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“A neurotypical person’s typical ways of stimming might be clicking a pen”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Completing a familiar routine can comfort us in the same way that snuggling up with a warm blanket”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“all of us can be too quick to believe that the autistic person in our world is not interested in the connection we’re offering”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“I remarked that it couldn’t be fun for him that he felt he needed to yell at them and”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“I often field questions about why so many autistic people struggle with eye contact. The shortest answer I can give is that it feels physically uncomfortable. Autistic people describe eye contact as stressful and distracting because they have to spend a great deal of mental energy on maintaining eye contact instead of focusing on the words.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Here’s what a good therapist should be doing: teaching autistic people skills that will help them remove the barriers they face because of their diagnosis.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“I have noticed that people frequently ask multiple questions in a row”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Stims are normal and”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Remember that”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“I had to work hard to overcome my own psychological rigidity. While telling me to “be flexible” wasn’t particularly useful in and of itself”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“From the time I wake until I go to bed”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“believe it can be empowering to teach autistic people how to explain and/or compensate for their lack of eye contact if they choose to do so. One tactic I use is to look at a different facial feature than the eyes—the nose”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“autism meltdowns. These behaviors result from an unmet need and/or a missing skill”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Everyone has preferences or ideas about what is the right way to do something. But not everyone needs to follow these often self-made and self-enforced rules in order to be okay. If an alteration in a routine or expectation regularly causes significant distress”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“executive functioning. Such skills typically begin developing around age three and continue developing until early adulthood. People with a variety of neurological differences”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Circling back to our discussion on direct communication”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Just acknowledging an autistic person’s overwhelmed state of mind can make them feel heard.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“accommodations do not make things easier—they make things possible. Accommodations restore access to an environment or activity. Despite their inconvenience”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“To recap”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“I love and I hate”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Social feedback is best when it’s more actionable and less descriptive.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“That seems really upsetting.” “I’m sorry that bothers you so much.” “It’s really hard when your toy is missing.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“A social norm needs to be reduced to a sentence articulating the specifics along with a precise explanation of the rationale.”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“The next time you see someone getting frustrated at hearing”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“From time to time we all experience the uneasy feeling of being “stuck” on something. This unpleasant phenomenon has a name: “perseveration.” It means getting fixated on a thought”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“For any goal”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication

“Here are a few benefits of doing so that you might not have considered: CAPACITY FOR THOUGHTFULNESS. Autistic people have strong preferences and opinions. Once we understand what your strong preferences are”
― Kaelynn Partlow, Life on the Bridge: Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist – A Practical Insider's Guide to Autism and Communication