I got my weighted plushie in the mail a while back and forgot to show y’all.
This is my weighted plushie. His name is Doodlebug. Everyone say hello to Doodlebug.
I don’t really want to talk about it but my dog was put to sleep last month. Doodlebug weighs the same as my dog did (7.5 lb). I got him to help me sleep better, because ten years of sleeping with a dog in my bed has left me expecting that weight and as small as it is, the absence feels huge.
Doodlebug was made by an Etsy company called Sensorypets, but there are other companies that sell weighted plushies too. Most come in weights like 3, 5, or 10 lb. They’re actually not primarily targeted to mourners like me, but to people with sensory issues. If a weighted blanket is too much for you, but you still enjoy or feel calmed by deep pressure, a weighted plushie might be a really good tool for you to add to your sensory toolbox. The bears from this company are especially well suited to have on your lap imho, because of their chonky shape.
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Sensory Diet for Adults
One common thread running through advice about managing sensory processing sensitivities and disorders: you need a “sensory diet” that gives your body the right amount and type of sensory input.
Unfortunately, I see this advice in the context of advice for parents. So most of the suggestions don’t seem applicable to an adult. (Letting your kid help with chores, for example). And there’s very little guidance on how to figure out your needs and develop a plan tailored to fit them.
Complicating matters still further, a lot of the suggestions seem to involve physical activity, to provide proprioceptive input and manage energy levels. What do you do when physical activity is uncomfortable and quickly tires you out?
So, I have questions for adult neurodivergent people:
Have you tried a sensory diet? How did it go?
What sort of sensory activities fit into your life and help you?
If you are easily fatigued, how do you work around that?
Thanks!
11/4/22
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Post: you NEED to eat more than 2 types of vegetables I DONT CARE IF YOURE AUTISTIC IM AUTISTIC TOO AND CAN DO IT WHICH MEANS YOU DEFINITELY CAN TOO!!! Just find a way to make them taste good Its literally sooo easy!!!!
The notes: yeah! Here's some ways you can do that: *lists 1000 mouth torturing methods*
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Nourishing with a Low Appetite: Primary Edition
Inspired by low appetite & a lifelong complicated relationship with nourishment.
Sufficiently nourishing is critical to wellness and functioning. It can be hindered by disordered thoughts & habits, brain-body disconnect, and low appetite. This list is meant to help with nourishment and weight care!
Many of these get at efficiency. Aim to get in maximum caloric & nutritional value per bite, since you can't take many.
> I am not a professional-- just a struggling ND adult trying to put their Bachelor degree in psychology to good use!
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↖️ Top left: Meal bars
high nutritional concentration, low spoon use
⬆️ Top middle: Fruit & vegetable pouches
hydration & nutrients, enjoyable & sensory-easy format
↗️ Top right: Ready-made microwave meals *
filling & substantial, high nutritional concentration, low spoon use
⬅️ Middle left: Multivitamins
high nutritional concentration
🫵 Middle middle: Fruit popsicles
hydration & nutrients, enjoyable & sensory-easy format
➡️ Middle right: Reminder app
keep on track, combat inattention and interroception
↙️ Bottom left: Eating affirmations
helps make eating feel safe & okay, improve relationship with body & food
⬇️ Bottom middle: Nutrition drink
high nutritional (& caloric) concentration
↘️ Bottom right: Accessible food prep/storage
Keeping food, supplies, & appliances in your "safe space" (e.g. next to your bed)
lowered spoon use, helps make eating feel safe & okay
* brands for vegans and vegetarians: Saffron Road, Annie Chun, The Good Bean, Loma Linda Brand, Somos, Fillos, Tasty Bite, Healthy Choice, Marie Callender's
See also: upcoming tummy and digestive care posts, low appetite secondary edition
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For the purposes of this grandmother is whatever grandparent was preoccupied with making sure you were fed.
As always please reblog for wider audience And please put details in the tags for whatever you choose.
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Your only comments on someone's plate should be "oh, what's that?" or "that looks delicious!" that's that that's literally it, no one has the right to ruin someone's meal saying shit like "hmm, you should watch your carbs :/"
Like shut up. shut up. dont project your insecurities on my food. I'm hot & sexy & you bet your ass ill be eating these carbs. Fuck off.
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Be me.
Find a flavor of bagels at the grocery store and get very excited, Hawaiian Bagels. Well I love a Kings Hawaiian brand roll so a bagel would probably be amazing, even if its a cheapo Kroger brand approximation.
Buy bagels. Happy Skipping Leo dot Gif.
Slather 5 in wads of cream cheese and runny fried eggs, and consume happily. All that lovely mouth-coating fat hides an ugly truth. I am blissfully ignorant.
Bagel 6 breaks the mold and gets a thin layer peanut butter.
Finish up my bagel. Scroll reddit for a while until I notice a funny flavor lingering in my mouth. A chemically, plasticky, flat flavor - like the sourness that remains after finishing a breathmint, but not quite as sharp and funky. A flavor like sucralose. A hunch takes shape.
A giant red flag labeled SHRINKFLATION waves in my brain.
Skeptical Fry dot Gif
Dig the bag back out of my Bag O Bags™️, read deep into the ingredients
Ingredient 22 of 30: sucralose
Cool, now I'm annoyed and frustrated and its 100% not my fault that I didn't think to check if there was a zero calorie sweetener in these regular-ass full-everything 260-calorie bagels. (Actually 260cal is a little low, which should have been a giveaway but I don't track calories so, again, I don't think to read calorie content labels.) My mouth tastes like plastic even though I am still drinking coffee and I have to go get READ THE INGREDIENT LABELS ON EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU BUY IT tattooed across the back of my hands because I can't ever remember to check for ingredients that should not fucking be in the food I'm carefully selecting to avoid those ingredients.
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN EVERYTHING, DIET CULTURE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHY.
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