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Sleep Strategies

Image is a photo of a full moon in a dark starry sky

#AskingAutistics What are your top tips for getting to sleep and staying asleep?

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)September 14, 2020March 27, 2022Posted inBody, Florence Neville, Home, Individual Environments, Individual Health Practices, Mind, Understanding NeedsTags:actuallyautistic, allautistics, autism, autistic, autistic health, autistic wellbeing, sleep, sleep strategies

Scents and Scentsability

Image shows a spider plant and it's shadow on the wall behind

At home, neighbours not withstanding, I have far more control and I choose to create a haven from toxic or unpleasent smells.

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)June 3, 2020June 3, 2020Posted inFlorence Neville, Home, Individual EnvironmentsTags:actuallyautistic, allautistics, autistic, autistic bloggers, autistic health, autistic wellbeing

Joy

Image is of a sunrise over mountains

Joy, Morning joy, I’m always up before the birds and the sun, Always been a morning person, Partly due to a strategy developed in my early twenties, To hit the deck as soon as my eyes opened, In order to avoid falling into the depressive abyss.

I often lived inside of

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)March 18, 2020Posted inHome, Individual Environments, Kristy Forbes, Mind, Understanding NeedsTags:actuallyautistic, adhd, autism, autistic adult, autistic wellbeing, neurodiversity

In My Room

Some fern branches against an unfocussed background

My bedroom is my safe place. It has always been my refuge from a sensory hostile world. There was a time two decades ago when it was also my prison.

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)January 29, 2020January 29, 2020Posted inAllison Kramer, Home, Individual EnvironmentsTags:actuallyautistic, allautistics, asd, autism, autistic, sensoryenvironment

Option D

Image is of an unmade bed under a window with slatted blinds

“If I don’t actively carve out time to be inactive, I fall apart.”

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)January 22, 2020March 27, 2022Posted inFlorence Neville, Home, Individual Environments, Understanding NeedsTags:actuallyautistic, allautistics, autistic health, autistic wellbeing1 Comment on Option D

Individual Environments

Image is of a winding footpath through summer grasses, wildflowers and the shade of a tree

In 2019 I carried out a study to explore how late-diagnosed autistic women (like me) managed their health and wellbeing. This is the third of four blog posts describing the themes I identified when analysing the interviews

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)December 11, 2019March 27, 2022Posted inBody, Home, Individual Environments, MindTags:actuallyautistic, autism, autistic2 Comments on Individual Environments

Life Revolutions

Life is often a series of compromises, but let me tell you a story of the day I decided to completely revolutionise my world.

Posted byRhiNovember 19, 2019November 28, 2019Posted inHome, Rhiannon Lloyd-williamsTags:autism, autistic health, change, health, wellbeing, women

Hawthorn Speaks

I have sought this feeling so often in my life in both country and city; to still my mind I simply walk, walk on the earth, and connect with my surroundings.

Posted byflorence neville (she/her)October 11, 2019January 5, 2020Posted inHelen Carmichael, HomeTags:actuallyautistic, autism, autistic, herbalism1 Comment on Hawthorn Speaks

Balance

For me, health and well-being means a certain level of contentedness and a certain lack of physical pains and mental stresses. I feel healthy when I feel in control of what I’m doing.

Posted byRhiOctober 2, 2019November 28, 2019Posted inBody, Home, Mind, Rhiannon Lloyd-williamsTags:asc, asd, autism, autistic, balance, health, wellbeing
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