The flare ups and downs of #chronicillness is definitely one of the worst parts. Little after this picture was taken in #Mostar , I had a fully blown #POTS episode & 3 people had to pick me up from the floor 🙈 Had spent ‘too much’ time upright. Most people don’t see these parts🥹

Cooling down in the #Mostar heat - 31 degrees sunshine today! 😍
#RelaxationMode
#HappySaturday

Hello #Mostar , it’s been a very very long time 🇧🇦💛

Bajram Šerif Mubarek Olsun 💚
Wishing everyone celebrating, a very happy and blessed #EidAlFitr2024
As the saying goes, there’s no place quite like home…
#Sarajevo

#NationalSiblingsDay today and here’s one of us trying to smile in the direction of the glorious sunshine today 💚
#ItsaSiblingThing

What The Night before #EidAlFitr in #Sarajevo looks like 💛💚

Neznam da igdje u svijetu se Ramazan osjeti kao u našem lijepom Sarajevu 💚
#Sarajevo #BosniaHerzegovina
#RamadanDay27

#Sarajevo oh how much I miss you and this beautiful atmosphere 💛💚🧡 Can you call this food for the soul? Just being there is enough for that feeling and to experience the magic of Sarajevo 🥰

PMDD is NOT a hormonal imbalance but a severe negative reaction in the brain to estrogen & progesterone fluctuations during the luteal phase. Premenstrual Exacerbation, PME, is the premenstrual exacerbation/worsening of the symptoms of another disorder. iapmd.org/pmdd-v-pme💙

Autistic adults were Autistic children. And Autistic children will become Autistic adults.

Society needs to do better to prevent those children being punched down on, forced to mask, and becoming Autistic adults with a lifetime of trauma behind them…

Our responses might seem disproportionate to whatever triggered them. But maybe they're not particularly disproportionate to the trauma that actually happened, that that trigger is tapping into.

Our responses are always proportionate to SOMETHING that actually happened.

Here I am, a 41 autistic occupational therapist... awkwardly jibbering on about this week! ✨️

Let's check in on our neurodivergent colleagues about how whether their reasonable adjustments are working for them!

However... HAPPY #NeurodiversityWeek 💞

It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week.

#Neurodiversity CelebrationWeek #Neurodiversity #Neurodiverse

Here’s a simple graphic of some common symptoms/conditions we have & how they might be felt by you or be seen by others.

If you have some of these, you might want to look further into the criteria & join us at SEDSConnective.org

#EDS #HSD #neurodivergence #hypermobility

Absolutely this 💯 ❤️
#POTS

I am truly shocked by some of the responses under this post for #LongCovid AwarenessDay
They range from it’s mental illness to personality disorder to 5G to vax injury to ‘just get up n move/work/live’. Solidarity with all #LongCovid sufferers & an ACT concept it reminds me of💜

As autistic people, we don’t need to apologize to others for our differences.

Illustration by Izzy @autieselfcare

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

Today is #LongCovid AwarenessDay
Most things in my life have become ‘before #COVID19 ’ or ‘after Covid’ when talking to others about things that have happened / my life. #POTS & #ME & #MCAS are being increasingly diagnosed with #LongCovid . Some days absolutely look like this… 🥹

Awesome symptom no. 20
Honesty

Autistic people are often disconcertingly honest. Many find it literally impossible to tell a downright lie.

This lack of ability to pretend to others that either you believe something you don't or you feel a way you don't, means that many…

Autistic anxiety triggers.

What would you add? 💭