https://wrongplanet.net/back-to-school-coping-with-stress/ Autism Community Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:24:43 -0600 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://wrongplanet.net/back-to-school-coping-with-stress/#comment-305 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:38:50 +0000 http://wpt1301.bptest.net/back-to-school-coping-with-stress/#comment-305 Being on the spectrum creates a life-long full time job just to learn, practice, relearn, refine, how to cope in different situations — this is on top of normal life requirements. Stress comes from coping with sensory sensitivities, social sensitivities, learning a new skill, forcing oneself to keep motivated to do many things that feel unnatural and wrong, along with hygiene and nutrition. I feel like I need to do more than the average person just to stay clean, and can fall behind because of time constraints. Not having any support system makes the world seem a lot like the old game Asteroids. It is a never ending game of dealing/coping with attacks, and not much else is accomplished.

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