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types of anxiety disorders

what causes anxiety?

calm breathing technique 

coping with a panic attack

counseling: does it work?

four As of stress management

grounding techniques

home tips to reduce anxiety

learning to say no without feeling guilty

ocd help

overcoming chest tightness

medication info

muscle relaxation

trick for social anxiety

rules for coping with anxiety & panic

self help strategies for PTSD

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social skills tips

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vitamin deficiency & anxiety

yoga poses for stress relief

12 foods for stress relief

9 steps to reduce anxiousness

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alpaca sock plushie

anxiety workbook for teens

anxiety relief - jar spell

calming glitter jar

comfort box

cute stress relief kit

panic workbook

stress relief bath and shower recipes

worksheet: learn to attack unhelpful thoughts

zen and anti stress colouring sheets

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6 games for anxiety & depression

blahtherapy

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disgruntle me

do nothing for 2 minutes

emotions wheel

make everything ok

mindshift phone app

neonflames

planetarium

rainymood

stress analyst

the thoughts room

the quiet place project

worry rockets

i am a daughter of the mothership

Shitpost of the day...

Stimming is how autistic people communicate with the autism mothership.

Thoughtful response

Can someone please explain how autism is something that is good?

Like…. I have a hearing loss that is super significant in my life and I am slowly losing the rest of my hearing and its actually awful because one day I will not be able to wake up and listen to music to start my day.

My hearing loss is a bad thing, its a disability.

I want answers. I have been socially brought up to view autism as this terrible thing that makes things harder for that person. I have been brought up to look at it like its Down Syndrome, that it will definitely fuck up the rest of those peoples lives and it will be very hard for them to live on their own.

I need to know why society thinks its bad and tumble thinks its good.

I need to understand.

Wow

Ballet rotoscope by Masahiko Sato & EUPHRATES

what are your favourite short films ? xxx

These are some I love:La Jetée | Chris Marker Tout la Memoire du Monde | Alain ResnaisGuernica | Alain Resnais/Robert HessensZéro de Conduit | Jean VigoLa petite marchande d'allumettes | Jean RenoirEdgar Allan Poe | D.W. GriffithNine Variations on a Dance Theme | Hilary HarrisLa Villa Santo-Sospir | Jean CocteauUn Chant d’Amour | Jean GenetPatriotism | Yukio Mishima Hamlet  | Jerzy Skolimowski Ménilmontant | Dimitri KirsanoffBrumes D'autumne | Dimitri KirsanoffDwightiana | Marie MenkenLe Temps Morts | René LalouxLes Dents du signe | René Laloux The Scarecrow | Buster KeatonThe Goat | Buster Keaton  Celles qui s'en font | Germaine Dulac Remembrance of Things to Come | Chris MarkerBlok | Hieronim Neumann Le Coup du Berger | Jacques RivetteLas Hurdes: Tierra sin pan | Luis BuñuelPartie de Campagne | Jean RenoirGolden Hands | Sergei ParajanovKiev Frescoes | Sergei ParajanovUs | Artavazd PelechianDance of Her Hands | Norman Bel Geddes Rhinoceros | Jan Lenica Pas de Deux | Norman McLarenMeshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren/Alexander HammidAt Land | Maya DerenTwo | Satyajit RayEntr'acte | Erik Satie/René Clair Νadja à Ρaris | Éric RohmerLes hallucinations du Baron de Munchausen | Georges MelièsSweet Dreams Intermingled with Nightmares | Segundo de ChomónThe Lady and the Hooligan (with V. Mayakovsky) | Yevgeny SlavinskyPapageno | Lotte ReiningerThe Seasons | Yuri Norshteyn The Tale of Tales | Yuri NorshteynHedgehog in the Fog | Yuri Norshteyn

Jae-五宝: 节日快乐 ：） 2017的最后几天希望依旧被照亮  

transl: happy holidays :) wishing the last few days of 2017 is also illuminated

Oh how I love Chise

I just past 80,000 followers guys, thanks!

Thanks for helping me laugh at myself

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The proper attitude towards life on earth

Révérence | dariach_photo

I want to be the girl sitting in that chair

Ooh! Aah!

Slugs. 

Twitter, Facebook.  

Thanks to Amethyst for her hard work on this issue and her sincerity and clarity and absence of malice

Trigger warning: Ableism, eugenics, medical abuse.

The autistic community is boycotting the book To Siri With Love, published by HarperCollins and written by Judith Newman. Please stand with us. #BoycottToSiri

edit *this video is now captioned!

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That’s me to a T

I love being alone in my room, I love not having to be a person

That’s how I imagine myself

That pretty well describes it

Love this drawing, especially the expression on the face

Hi what are raptor hands? I see people talk about this in #actuallyautistic, and I'm not 100% what kind of hands it refers to. (I love your detailed and thorough answers to everything, btw.)

Hi, I’m glad you appreciate how many words I need to answer even the most basic questions! (half joke)

Interestingly enough, my icon here is a drawing of myself with raptor hands. 

Raptor hands (also called raptor arms, meerkat hands, and many other things of this format) are a way of holding one’s hands/arms at rest. It’s when a person has their arms in a resting position where their elbows are bent. 

A common way that this can look is that the hands are right at chest level, and loosely hanging down. The hands don’t need to be as high though for me to still consider it raptor hands. Elbows at a right angle such that the hands are hanging down from around the waist still strike me as being a bit raptorish in this sense.

The reason this is talked about in the actuallyautistic tag is because autistic people tend to be the ones who do this naturally. I’m not sure what causes it, but a lot of us find it much more comfortable than having our arms hang down to our sides. I have a friend who tries to hold her arms down to her sides, but because having them bent is so much more natural feeling, her elbows are still a bit bent, and so when she walks you can see her arms bending away from her a bit. It’s actually how I first thought to ask if she’s autistic too (she is). 

Here’s the original drawing I did that I turned into my icon, since I think it’s a good example. (Copic markers and a pigma micron for the line art)

Give us a kiss!

Humpback Whale

me @ my anxiety: not our fault, shut up.

anxiety: OK but what if it is?

Mmmm... Yes, that says why I am a winter woman

— W i n t e r is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the t o u c h of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Eleven is also a kind of autistic heroine... A visitor from elsewhere who sees the human world from the outside. 

female awesome meme: [1/10] lead female characters

“Friends don’t lie.” Eleven (Stranger Things)

My furry friends: Nancy the Cat and Eerie the Velveteen Rabbit. 

Nancy is named after the heroine in Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.

So there is a coincidental connection between them. 

Eerie is named because of her weary ears. 

On the wall there’s a photo of the girl who stole my heart and never was seen again. My times with her are the happiest happiest times of my life. On the left is a drawing she made of a girl embracing a deer. 

So this is a bitter-sweet picture. But sweet none the less...

I want that shirt

I sent a message last night about my new Autism Shirt™ and thought you’d like to see it

Kay: !!! it looks super soft and comfy!!! I also like the colors. They go well with your skin tone. SIDE NOTE IT THAT A HARRY POTTER POSTER IN THE BACKGROUND??? You’re a good bean, and I support you. I hope you get a lot of comfy flannels in the future.

Perfect

Ernest Filliard

It looks like a black leather bat wings spread soaring over the water

Fairy tale by Max Magnante

i’m not sure if it’s just me but when you go out and talk to strangers and you’re like ‘hah maybe i’m getting better at this whole socialising thing’.

then you get home and literally feel like you need to sleep for 10 hours and think ‘maybe not’

I bless u in the name of the... Uh, how does it go? Let me think... Mmmm. Nope, can’t remember. Carry on.

You know I’m not sure cats actually understand cats either

Great tribute to power of writing and reading

Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site

What makes life worth living

Love all my sensitive girls who make the most mundane things seem vastly more intimate and romantic

I would be too!

Frederic Stuart Church

American, 1842-1924

“A Willing Captive”