Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog! For my post this week, I will be writing about autism and routine and changes. I’ve known this fact for a long time, but I’m still going to use an amazing post from @neurodivergent_lou on Instagram to help me with this post, and you guys can hear two points of view!
The vast majority of autistic people/people with autism do best when we know what we’re doing ahead of time, have schedules, and when everything is the same, and helps us manage our anxiety. Routines help us with our executive dysfunction, and our sensory and social skills, so without one, we’ll have to make more choices on what we do with our day. It also take SO much out of us just to make a simple decision. Routines also help us navigate your world. Aka the NT world we live in. Routines are helpful for the most part, but sometimes can be a challenge if you have too much on your routine and get in the way of us living our best lives! @neurodivergent_lou talks about how her morning routine helps her and I agree. My (workday) weekday morning routine helps me be more responsible, and a better version of me when I’m at work. This routine is that I wake up at 5:45 am, which I will probably never get used to lol. I go on my phone for a little (well, 30 mins at my dads house since the commute is WAY closer). I then get dressed and have breakfast. (Sometimes in reverse order also). When I’m at my moms, I drive my moms car with her in it so I can practice for my license. When I’m at my dads, I walk since I live 5 blocks away. (If my bosses are seeing this, please don’t switch my schools). After work no matter who’s day it is, I walk back to my dads house and spend the day there. I go back to sleep when I get home from my morning shift which is from 7-8 am. I then relax and go back in the afternoon. Then depending on the day I get picked up or I walk. This turned into my weekday (workday) daily routine lol. It’s hard for me to change my routine. When I’m at my dads house, I could technically wake up at 6, instead of 5:45 but I don’t want to since it may throw me off. This is because we don’t have much time to prepare for the change. Even though I would in this case, it’s still stressful. We focus on the details of our routine so changing it in the slightest will change the details. We tend to fail to see the bigger picture. When our routines change, it is very overwhelming. Like when I make plans with friends and when they cancel or when I have to cancel, it gets stressful because those plans were engraved in my head that this was going to happen with certain people, on a certain day, at a certain time. Even these types of changes like changes of physical space, changing your food choice, buying new things, moving houses or schools can also be stressful, and overwhelming. There are lots of ways to cope with this type of change including putting the day on your calendar and seeing that it’s there, having a pros and cons list, a list of a step by step process on how to deal with the change, etc. So that’s about it for this post. Honestly, I did not think I’d even post this week because I was hyperfixating on my newest special interest a littleeeeeee too much (week 29). Just being honest lol. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you all next week! Email- [email protected] Instagram- @embracingmysuperpower Facebook- Embracing my Superpower Tik Tok- @embracingmysuperpower https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-0LXEs_CD/?utm_medium=copy_link
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