Full Description
100 Tips that Cover Autism's 20 Biggest Challenges!
Lifehacks for a Simpler Life with Autism covers—with humor and sensitivity—the twenty biggest challenges for people with autism. Written in collaboration with autistic individuals, it illustrates what autistics can do themselves to tackle these challenges, and also how others can help. Though the book is primarily written for adults with autism, it is also an excellent guide for their friends, neighbors, partners, parents and employers. By reading about the challenges and the accompanying tips, people without autism can also gain a better insight into what autistics struggle with, where these challenges come from, and how they can help and support them.
As mentioned, the selection of the twenty challenges and all tips in this book are the result of meetings of people with autism, more specifically ambassadors of "Strongmakers in Autism." This is an organization that strives for full inclusion of autistic individuals. At the back of the book the ambassadors introduce themselves.
Topics include:
Setting boundaries and daring to say no
Planning and organizing
Making choices and decisions
Dealing with unpredictable events
And much more!
Contents
These are the twenty challenges that are addressed in this book:
1 Maintaining energy balance
2 Setting boundaries and daring to say no
3 Dealing with a full head
4 Planning and organizing
5 Dealing with your own emotions
6 Dealing with the emotions of others
7 Overcoming the fear of disappointing others
8 Making choices and decisions
9 Switching from one thing to another
10 Dealing with unpredictable events
11 Dealing with sensory overload
12 Having conversations
13 Building and maintaining close relationships
14 Surviving parties
15 Sleeping well
16 Enjoying meals
17 Dealing with loss 18 Boosting your negative or low self-esteem
19 Being yourself in connection with others
20 Accepting yourself
