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Unintentional Gaslighting - Articulating the Autistic Experience

JuniperFromGallifrey

I really love this woman! She really helps express How Autistic Individuals experience the world. Website: https://linktr.ee/thearticulateautistic (I follow her on Instagram)

This is a free ebook she's released: https://www.thearticulateautistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Unintentional-Gaslighting-Jaime-A.-Heidel-The-Articulate-Autistic.pdf I think she helps express how important it is to sort through all the trauma and stress to help find one's true inner self and potential.

Thought I'd share! 

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    An addiction to achievement.

  • in reply to DaveAsperg

    They are not given help with basic necessities in life. The cost of basic living is well beyond minimum wage, corporations run monopolies and many put groceries or basic needs on Credit Cards. Things can be 3-5 x the price even with currency conversion. Medical & Dental insurance can run $100 - thousands per month, you have to be very low income to pay less, but this implies you may not be able to actually pay for other things. But that doesn't cover a visit to the ER or the doctor or the medicine or a filling or a wealth of extras. 

    Next, let's examine systematically marginalising Autistic individuals who have often been held back and not helped to work out what they may be good at. America is still in the dark ages looking for a 'Cure' to autism. Most could not tell you the difference between Austin and Downs syndrome. I'll buy her a coffee! Unless you're born into wealth, only those with the constitution of an ox will survive that system which requires you to work sometimes 3 jobs to make a basic living.

    No advertiser will help her. She doesn't have the sufficient data they require to be able to extract in exchange. And I wouldn't want to put constant dancing monkeys on my site if it were for ASC individuals. Would you?

  • Thankyou. Quick read and found the examples familiar. What I have been saying to my mental health worker but he just didn’t get it. Now looking for a private therapist who specialises in autistic mind. He unintentionally gaslit me Friday ending our sessions poof just like that and I don’t know why. I was being honest about masking in sessions as I was doing what I thought he expected, it was hard to expose myself honestly and he dumped me? This leaflet has helped me with some clarity.

  • Excellent, but shame she is asking for money to fund her writings online in true American style.  Why are Americans so focussed on getting money?

    inwould have thought she could run her blog for a while with advertising revenue