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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What’s your favourite sensory/fidget item? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2023, 9:02 pm
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| Ouch! I hope it helps! It was suggested to me by my OT for Sensory Integration Disorder causing Interoception problems. Basically I had to learn where my body was by waking up the skin. I have SPD too. It is, When I got the camboot off one person at Ortho warned me that the skin will be as fresh as... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What’s your favourite sensory/fidget item? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2023, 7:40 pm
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| I have a Wilbarger brush too. I don't use it much but it's very stimmy. I don't use any other commercially-produced sensory things, but just tons of my own homemade stuff. I tried buying chew toys for autism but none of them were as good as stuff I chew on my own. About 2 months ago I didn't have t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What’s your favourite sensory/fidget item? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2023, 6:25 pm
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| That’s quite a list Markitzero. I’m going to look up that brush. I noticed that both ladies said their hair and fingers. Do you think that’s because women tend to mask more than men, and so their fidgets blend as well? Here is what I am talking about but I got mine from Ebay a generic version https... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What’s your favourite sensory/fidget item? |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2023, 4:03 pm
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| I have been adding to my Sensory/Fidget toys - ONO Fidget Roller - Fidget Cube which is warn out - 2 Fidget Spinners "one of the Spinners the center bearing makes noise" - OT Sensory integration brush "Got a 3-pack because had surgery this year on my left leg and as the nerves grow ba... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Coronavirus |
| markitzero |
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Posted: 23 Oct 2023, 1:43 pm
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| How has Coronavirus affected your life? Some very mild but odd long-term covid stuff that faded, Beer tasted sweeter for the taste area also for some time a sugar and caffeine sensitivity which both helped me stop drinking energy drinks and Soda so I use that for a positive. How cautious about coron... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Physical characteristic of autism? |
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Posted: 12 Oct 2023, 10:07 am
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Replies: 15
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Got to like these random threads.
I have one ear that is rounded and one ear that does have a point to it.
I don't think that is an Autism physical characteristic |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Native American Flute Music |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2023, 5:18 pm
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| I have been downloading Youtube Vids of it and also converting into Mp3 to put in my tablet PC to use at night also on my tablet PC got some Sensory videos that I like. It will come in handy when I go Camping and don't have access to Internet. The last time I went camping I had old Art Bell Programs... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Native American Flute Music |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2023, 4:54 pm
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| Ever since I was a kid I liked listening to Native American Flute Music it was one of the things that would calm me down. I use to have a cassette tape from Knotts Berry Farm when I was a kid of Native American Flute Music and I wore out the tape and then a tape player sadly chewed it up. https://ww... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: wearing autism related symbols in public - your experience? |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2023, 12:55 am
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Replies: 25
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| Well I finally got something to wear. I have never wear anything relating to my autism out in public but I have been masking for over 15 years and I have been working on removing that mask and overriding the automatic nature of Masking. The tag on the shirt will be coming off. https://i5.walmartimag... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is wearing always the same clothes an Aspie trait? |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2023, 10:42 am
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Replies: 44
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| There are days were I will wear the same shirt 2 days in a row I will forget to change it in the morning because I get doing things and the change shirt gets forgotten. I try to take a shower every other day so I change for sure then. For me is it mainly Graphic T-Shirts and I like Cargo Pants I hav... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have any autistic relatives? |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2023, 10:34 am
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| Yes- My Sister's Daughter and Son are on the spectrum. The Daughter is high functioning. The Son is Non-verbal and he self-harms My Cousin 1 has 2 sons, One son is on the Spectrum and is high functioning My Cousin 2 adopted her brother's 2 kids a son and Daughter, The Son is on the Spectrum High Fun... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Presentation |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2023, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 12
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Testing, testing, is this thing on? |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2023, 4:54 pm
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Replies: 10
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: That's not how you say my name |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2023, 4:52 pm
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Replies: 26
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| My last name is Italian and every since I was a kid people could never get my last name right even at school, I got use to it. |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Any tips on losing weight? |
| markitzero |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2023, 5:00 pm
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Replies: 30
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| Here is the few things when I started down my weight loss path and evolved further as I got more serious because of several events which I do have a post about in this section. -I started walking Daily worked myself up to 30min a day then I started doing it twice a day and now up to 3 times a day. -... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic people here who are HYPOsensitive to sound? |
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Posted: 26 Sep 2023, 4:23 pm
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Replies: 2
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| That is the other side to Sensory Processing Disorder - SPD can affect one sense or multiple senses. Children who have SPD may overreact to sounds, clothing, and food textures. Or they may underreact to sensory input. This causes them to crave more intense thrill-seeking stimuli. - https://familydoc... |
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