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Post by micgrace on Aug 5, 2008 2:34:56 GMT -5
Just some help for those of us subject to regular meltdowns and require advice or a shoulder to lean on.  |
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TiggerTheWing
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Post by TiggerTheWing on Aug 5, 2008 4:28:59 GMT -5
When I feel a meltdown imminent I go to bed and pull the covers over my head. If I'm out I'll go to the car or the public loos (if they are not crowded) - anywhere I can shut out the visual world and concentrate on calming down. If I can cut out visual input I find auditory input easier to ignore. But I must say I have had far fewer meltdowns in the last ten years than I had when the children were younger and more demanding (and there were more of them - the older three having grown up and only having the twins at home has made me appreciate why most people stop at two!) My last public one was in Adelaide in a supermarket. Nowadays I don't go shopping when physically exhausted; if I have to be out then I am in the wheelchair so I'm not battling pain and my own body as well as coping with crowds, noise, lights, colours... supermarkets are purgatory and those inside shoppng centres are hell on earth!  |
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Post by micgrace on Aug 5, 2008 4:41:45 GMT -5
Haven't had one for a little while now. Although fixing the screen door rollers on Sunday got me somewhat close. And the worst part I like fixing things. Of course our kids at 16 and 14 make life somewhat easier than when they were screaming their heads off as toddlers.
And I had one in the supermarket a while back. I threw the house keys to my wife and just walked out and went to the car for some 15 minutes and came back. Luckily she understands. Shopping Centres = Torture. But she still can't understand why.
Lights, sun, noise (high pitched) very low frequency I can tolerate. Crowds. Socialising too long, NT's who think their autistic jokes are "funny". Curebies don't know why I went onto autistims speaks and haven't been booted off yet.
For me, under one minute on identification of meltdown I must separate myself from people, noise etc. Otherwise, if I can't and I've been hospitalised a few times, catatonic but thrashing around. Full blown exreme end of the spectrum stuff. But I wouldn't swap the advantages for anything.
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