"The way we experience the world, some people talk about it as like, the bottom up versus top down, if you know what I mean when I say that. So for neurodivergent people to understand the bigger picture, we need to understand how all the tiny details kind of fit together, and then we get it.
But a neurotypical person, typically has that top-down, so they already... their brains have already filtered out when they think is important, and then they drill down to like, the essence of it. And essentially that's what you're doing in your therapy, the therapist is trying to help you get to like, the crumbs, to really try and understand that detail. But our brains are already working like that. So quite often we end up being in therapy, we might have therapists say: oh you're very self-aware...
But the reality is that we're going to therapy because we're overwhelmed. There's just too much information, and we're trying to simplify and make sense of something. Whereas traditional therapy does it completely the opposite way. Which can actually lead us to, like, ruminations, feeling stuck on that kind of loop of just getting nowhere and not feeling any better."
Youtube video: How therapy can traumatise autistic people (w/ Steph Jones)
Steph Jones, writer of the book "The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy", timestamp 14:10.
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Congratulations Danny and Steph.
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Random section of my wall. 2011.
Kyla Pratt, Wesley Jonathan, Steph Jones, Sammie, Mishon, Toya, Memphitz, and one Meagan Good picture lol.
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furthering my long hair tim agenda
OTL i cant believe i actually looked for references of the annunciation for this.
anita braiding cissie's hair under the cut:
from yj #36:
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Danny and Steph Wedding Photos
via OK Magazine Online
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