Online communities for autistic children?

Just a mum here and Autistic with a possible bit of help on matters of Anxiety.

You may have this info, but if it helps: anxiety is a natural response to unnatural and harmful environmental factors. It is also a response to Gamma waves accelerating out of control when full-brain hyper-connexions are being sense-perceived as we default into a sort of troubleshooting mode. There's no exiting this, as it's part of the Autistic neurological-wiring which makes us eventually highly skilled with particular interests.

Several recent medical papers explain why Anxiety happens more often for Autistic and ADHD individuals. According to these studies, our GABA receptor levels can be lower, which can also help execute the immediacy to recognise and fix danger. It's basically a different biology which technically would've been incredibly useful in tribal societies as a hyper-awareness. In modern society, with artificial (painful) lighting, sound at dangerous levels and frequencies, harmful chemicals in cleaning products and emitted by buildings, cheep designs without attention to acoustics, all of these will cause an alert which Autistics tend to notice (we don't dull our senses the same), but when young combine a lack of understanding physics and environmental impact on biology, recognising danger without the education to match our ability to perceive and identify conflicts, simply turns into anxiety. This sense-perception involves seemingly invisible exchanges between humans, systems of economy and social nuance which may take years of sociology to explain, internal psychology, as emotions can all melt together and be frustrating to work out what beliefs they're a product of. It can involve sensing the  affect of the change in weather (barometric pressure really affects us), and so on. 

All the above to say, once the element(s) creating anxiety are discovered, most of the time the resolve as simply understanding or fixing the problems will ease the anxiety, as it's not a disorder for most of us but something like a Red Flag. Sometimes, though, I've found the only way to sleep is with a micro-dose of a drug to boost GABA. Rarely needed.

I hope you can find a community. ADHD kids and Dyslexic kids will be able to understand her as well, though ADHD can sometimes be taxing for Autistics. However, as we recognise each others differences, and understand the potentials in our diversity, we can have a good ability to tolerate our eccentricities :) 

Just a mum here and Autistic with a possible bit of help on matters of Anxiety.

You may have this info, but if it helps: anxiety is a natural response to unnatural and harmful environmental factors. It is also a response to Gamma waves accelerating out of control when full-brain hyper-connexions are being sense-perceived as we default into a sort of troubleshooting mode. There's no exiting this, as it's part of the Autistic neurological-wiring which makes us eventually highly skilled with particular interests.

Several recent medical papers explain why Anxiety happens more often for Autistic and ADHD individuals. According to these studies, our GABA receptor levels can be lower, which can also help execute the immediacy to recognise and fix danger. It's basically a different biology which technically would've been incredibly useful in tribal societies as a hyper-awareness. In modern society, with artificial (painful) lighting, sound at dangerous levels and frequencies, harmful chemicals in cleaning products and emitted by buildings, cheep designs without attention to acoustics, all of these will cause an alert which Autistics tend to notice (we don't dull our senses the same), but when young combine a lack of understanding physics and environmental impact on biology, recognising danger without the education to match our ability to perceive and identify conflicts, simply turns into anxiety. This sense-perception involves seemingly invisible exchanges between humans, systems of economy and social nuance which may take years of sociology to explain, internal psychology, as emotions can all melt together and be frustrating to work out what beliefs they're a product of. It can involve sensing the  affect of the change in weather (barometric pressure really affects us), and so on. 

All the above to say, once the element(s) creating anxiety are discovered, most of the time the resolve as simply understanding or fixing the problems will ease the anxiety, as it's not a disorder for most of us but something like a Red Flag. Sometimes, though, I've found the only way to sleep is with a micro-dose of a drug to boost GABA. Rarely needed.

I hope you can find a community. ADHD kids and Dyslexic kids will be able to understand her as well, though ADHD can sometimes be taxing for Autistics. However, as we recognise each others differences, and understand the potentials in our diversity, we can have a good ability to tolerate our eccentricities :)