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thatgirlwithadhd · 6 months
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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.
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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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neurodiversitysci · 1 year
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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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nachosforfree · 8 months
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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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usually-program · 4 days
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yellowyarn · 5 months
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i love vampires so much, come on they are like the ultimate queer, autistic and violent icon
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Nourishing with a Low Appetite: Primary Edition
Inspired by low appetite & a lifelong complicated relationship with nourishment.
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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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knode-garden · 6 months
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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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sensoryserenity · 7 months
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Will it Flush? - Diet Coke and Mentos | Weird Stuff on YouTube
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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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craneworms · 2 months
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i know what you are monkey d. luffy (autistic)
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samyelbanette · 5 months
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I bought these meatballs that are heavily marketed as “trick your kids into eating vegetables!”
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….I’m a 30 year old childless adult. I’m trying to trick me into eating vegetables. 😅
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performing-personhood · 3 months
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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.
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Skeptical Fry dot Gif
Dig the bag back out of my Bag O Bags™️, read deep into the ingredients
Ingredient 22 of 30: sucralose
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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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jamescarstairs · 7 days
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still annoyed with what my coworker said to me at work today
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toytulini · 7 months
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idk. picky eater rights. im coming to your events and turning my picky bitch nose up at your fancy ass desserts you spent a bajillion hours working over in the kitchen and asking if i can find like a basic ass brownie with no extra flairs or ingredients or steps or whatever the fuck. cry about it. stop trying to feed me
#toy txt post#they gotta have some picky eater bitches be the judges on those food competition shows i stg#sorry for committing the unforgivable sin of my tastebuds didnt enjoy the food you made. it was intended as a personal slight actually#i am trying to offend you for real. yeah. thats definitely whats happening. god/sssss#like god irl if i dont like food you made ill try to be fuckin gracious about it buf dont fucking get mad at me for like. idk. prepping my#own foods you percieve as worth less or whatever the fuck. ppl are so fucking weird about food.#honestly guy on prev post didnt even dislike the cake it sounded like but was just experiencing the human emotion of disappointment#when the little specific joy he was looking forward too was not what he expected. if she had asked him 'do you mind if i make a similar cake#that is not the exact same as the one you asked for? maybe he wouldve been fine cos he wouldnt have been looking forward to that specific#thing. OR maybe he wouldve said if youre not going to make this very specific one im looking forward to then dont bother i dont want you#wasting the time and effort and then she wouldnt have been mad. or maybe she wouldve. ppl do get weird about that kind of thing#maybe saying that wouldve been a crime too. guess that dumb asshole shouldve shut up and eaten his stupid cake and enjoyed it and said#nothing. a recipe for happiness#anyway. hot take ig stop putting nuts in desserts. alllergy havers will prolly thank you but you know who else will thank you?#every day i see takes about food that make me think i really should be more of a picky bitch eater on maim to knock yall pretentious#food fuckers down a peg tbh. every day i resist the urge but god how yall test me. let me be the judge on a cooking show.#weird assholes who are rude abt ppl having allergies or sensory issues: come here. im going to break you#anyway more of us picky bitches who are picky just for like. casual reasons. we should he loud picky bitches on main. if a cook or baker or#whatever can accommodate my picky bitch ass thats difficult to feed for no reason we can be sure they can accommodate allergy havers#and ppl w medical restricted diets. if they can be gracious about me just not vibing w the food then they can def be gracious about more#sensitive reasons. yea i could choke down the food i dont like probably. it wouldnt make me throw up or send me to the hospital. but why#should i? if youre an asshole to me about simply not liking your shit then why the hell would i feel safe disclosing medical info to your#bitch ass? why would i trust you to follow it? and not try to sneak some shit in bc you think you know better about food?#anyway#picky eater rights. let ppl be picky for no apparent reason. cos the ppl who have uwu Good Valid Reasons(tm) dont fucking owe you that#explanation
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atlasisntdead · 9 months
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Do I fr have ARFID lmao
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caffeinatedopossum · 9 months
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I have no idea how I'm losing weight, I'm not even trying cause I'm too depressed to care either way but damn
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