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Meltdown or crisis

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I told a few friends that I'm autistic yesterday. One works as a SEN teacher and told me that it was derogatory to say an autistic person is having a meltdown and they say in crisis instead. 

I say having a meltdown. In crisis doesn't really describe what happens to me. I also mainly SHUT down and need to retreat. Still not a crisis though. 

Thoughts on this?

She also tried to teach me about the spectrum not being a line but a circle. At this point I sarcastically thanked her for teacher me about a condition that I actually have... very patronising. 

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  • Meltdown to me. Even before I knew it could be Autism, I called them meltdowns. Chaos Cup fills up too much and boils over. I would also call a shutdown the same because it feels like that. I've gone into shutdown mode, waiting to recover.  'In Crisis' was the moment I had yesterday when I thought it would be so easy to just step off the train platform.

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  • Meltdown to me. Even before I knew it could be Autism, I called them meltdowns. Chaos Cup fills up too much and boils over. I would also call a shutdown the same because it feels like that. I've gone into shutdown mode, waiting to recover.  'In Crisis' was the moment I had yesterday when I thought it would be so easy to just step off the train platform.

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