View past chats on this topic: Dec 17, 2017 and Nov 10, 2019. Q1: What kind of cooking and/or meal prep do you do? #AutChat Q2: What parts are cooking/meal prep do you like? What parts do you dislike? #AutChat Q3: If parts of cooking/meal prep are difficult for you, what makes them difficult? #AutChat […]

View past chats on this topic: December 10, 2017, February 16, 2020, and September 11, 2022. This #AutChat is about privacy and privacy violations, including medical information (physical health, mental health, neurodivergence-related). Remember that if talking or reading about this is upsetting or triggering, you can mute the hashtag or step away as needed. —- […]

View past chats on this topic: November 26, 2017, September 15, 2019, and April 3, 2022. Today’s #autchat is on mood dysregulation: Intense emotional responses to situations, and difficulty managing those responses. Autistic and similarly neurodivergent people can have difficulty with mood regulation. This can also be due to co-occurring mood or personality disorders. You […]

View past chats on this topic here: November 2, 2015, January 7, 2018, June 30, 2019, and October 24, 2021. Burnout is when “the demands of life exceed a person’s resources” and they temporarily lose skills or coping abilities. This can include increased difficulty with masking (hiding autistic or neurodivergent traits). #AutChat https://web.archive.org/web/20110315102625/http:/www.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html Questions: Q1: […]

View past chats on this topic here: Mar 22, 2016, Dec 24, 2017, Dec 23, 2018, and Aug 22, 2021. Questions: Q1: What routines are helpful to you? What routines are restrictive? #AutChat Q2: How do you go about building helpful routines? What problems do you run into? #AutChat Q3: How do you manage interruptions […]