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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?

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.

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.

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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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.