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innocent-until-proven-geeky · 4 months

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Reminder to my fellow autists—and really anyone—that if you have a meltdown or shutdown or something that seems inconsequential, there were probably a hundred and one other things that led up to it.

You don’t have to and probably shouldn’t examine those things in the MIDDLE of the meltdown or shutdown. That will be difficult to do and might make things worse, depending on how your brain works. But when you’ve started to calm down a bit and you’re beating yourself up for melting down over something “so little,” remember the stuff that came before it.

#just ver things #I’m totally not speaking from experience here but #when you’re melting down over the tapwater only being warm for some reason #remember the 11 hours at the vet with your dog #and the fact that you didn’t get to eat until your dog was discharged #and the sensory overload and the walk from the car to the dorm because the buses don’t run at 5 AM #and that when you finally got to eat it had to be from the only fast food place open and it had to be breakfast because it was 5 AM #so you couldn’t even get your same food after all of that #you’re not melting down over the water #you’re melting down over EVERYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE

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