#sensory diet

[neurodiversitysci]

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

[sidewalkchemistry]

[free to download via gumroad]: lesson 1: scents ~ lesson 2: sights ~ lesson 3: sounds ~ and more to come!

short guides on enhancing your home space to accommodate your sensory sensitivities & sensory preferences. great to have as you undertake your spring cleaning tasks☺️💐🧺

[nachosforfree]

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*

[give-might]

https://laurie-219.ludgu.top/w/TGYLuKk

[yellowyarn]

i love vampires so much, come on they are like the ultimate queer, autistic and violent icon

[neurodiverse-adulthood]

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!

x x x x x x x x x

↖️ 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

[sensoryserenity]

Will it Flush? - Diet Coke and Mentos | Weird Stuff on YouTube

[knode-garden]

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.

[doomednarrative]

Made nikujaga for dinner and as is typical of me everytime I make some new meat dish, I'm sitting here like "hm, I like this, but I'd like it better without the meat."

[letitrainathousandflames]

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.

[craneworms]

i know what you are monkey d. luffy (autistic)

[samyelbanette]

I bought these meatballs that are heavily marketed as “trick your kids into eating vegetables!”

….I’m a 30 year old childless adult. I’m trying to trick me into eating vegetables. 😅

[performing-personhood]

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.

[jamescarstairs]

still annoyed with what my coworker said to me at work today

[toytulini]

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