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The Autism Discussion Page on Stress, Anxiety, Shutdowns and Meltdowns: Proactive Strategies for Minimizing Sensory, Social and Emotional Overload
Anxiety, meltdowns and emotional regulation can be hugely challenging for autistic people. This book is full of proactive strategies for understanding, accepting and respecting the processing differences in autism. It contains tools for reducing sensory, social and mental drain, and offers strategies to protect from ongoing stress and anxiety. These help minimize shutdowns and burnout, while maximizing self-esteem, autistic identity and mental health.Learn strategies for matching environmental demands to the person's processing needs, how to support vulnerabilities, and how to prevent and manage meltdowns while protecting the identify and self-esteem of the individual with autism.
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2019
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March 18, 2024
tldr: probably a useful book for parents of children on the ASD spectrum. Probably.
You should know this book seems to be written for NT's: neurotypical people, not people on the spectrum. This became clear to me only about 180 pages in. In fact, it seems to be a compilation of blog posts from a site called "The Autism Discussion Page." Which is for parents of ASD kids. As a 65-year-old recently diagnosed with ASD, I found little useful information here, though it did shed some light on my childhood experience. Critically, this book needs editing badly, as it repeats itself over and over, and sometimes it's talking to parents, sometimes to people on the spectrum (just enough of this to be confusing as to who this book is for).
The author works with children, and seems to lack an understanding of what life is really like for adults. He speaks in the usual demeaning mechanistic, computer-model of the brain. His description of a meltdown (from the inside) is not accurate, and tells me he hasn't worked much with high-functioning adults. Still waiting to find a good book for adults who are diagnosed late in life.
You should know this book seems to be written for NT's: neurotypical people, not people on the spectrum. This became clear to me only about 180 pages in. In fact, it seems to be a compilation of blog posts from a site called "The Autism Discussion Page." Which is for parents of ASD kids. As a 65-year-old recently diagnosed with ASD, I found little useful information here, though it did shed some light on my childhood experience. Critically, this book needs editing badly, as it repeats itself over and over, and sometimes it's talking to parents, sometimes to people on the spectrum (just enough of this to be confusing as to who this book is for).
The author works with children, and seems to lack an understanding of what life is really like for adults. He speaks in the usual demeaning mechanistic, computer-model of the brain. His description of a meltdown (from the inside) is not accurate, and tells me he hasn't worked much with high-functioning adults. Still waiting to find a good book for adults who are diagnosed late in life.
December 24, 2024
Some good information, but very repetitive. My problem is that I am dealing with an adult who is struggling with the sensory issues of autism and although there were some tips for helping adults with autism, they were pretty scarce and scattered randomly throughout. I had to go through pages and pages of notes about small children (which did not apply) before finding the information I was looking for. This book is really much better suited for those working with children with autism, despite its attempts to be more general.
I also found it frustrating that the author made the choice to gender the example child as male throughout the book, which felt like it leaned too much into the stereotype of autistic children being primarily male and diminished/erased the experience of female children.
I also found it frustrating that the author made the choice to gender the example child as male throughout the book, which felt like it leaned too much into the stereotype of autistic children being primarily male and diminished/erased the experience of female children.
July 25, 2025
repetitive, but informative
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