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4 Conversation techniques to add to your social script
Posted: 12 months ago
Many autistic people create for themselves a 'social script' to help them know how to interact in social situations. A social script is a guide for planning what to do and say inside a social setting.
The Girl With The Curly Hair uses a social script whenever she meets up with her friends. Specifically, she uses 4 conversation techniques:
Why have I become more introverted?
Posted: January 29, 2019
I quite often read that people feel they become more introverted as they get older. I was wondering how this was relevant to autistic people. Let me investigate...
Alis is a finalist for an Autism Professionals Award
Posted: January 24, 2019
Alis has just found out that she is one of the three finalists for the Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Individual on the Autism Spectrum. There were an enormous number of nominations so it's a big achievement to have reached this stage!
Why autistic people should do sport
Posted: January 20, 2019
One of the ways in which I have learned to cope with my Asperger's Syndrome is to participate in a sport. My sport happens to be Olympic weightlifting but yours could be anything. A sport can teach you many important lessons that carry over and help other aspects of your life. In this article I will discuss this in more detail.
When are expectations of people damaging?
Posted: January 12, 2019
One of the greatest challenges I experience with my relationships is the other person not adapting the way they interact or work with me despite me telling them that I have ASD. It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening having to deal with people who aren't flexible, but it happens to me so frequently that I am used to it.
One of the 8 best books about autism
Posted: January 6, 2019
Alis's book Asperger's Syndrome and Communication made it into the newspaper The Independent's list of 8 Best Books About Autism. "Asperger’s Syndrome And Communication is a guide, written for autistic people, about how to communicate well. It has simple pictures, is written concisely, and is also useful for people not on the spectrum."
Controlling what you can and managing what you can’t
Posted: January 4, 2019
One very important lesson I have learned which helps in many areas of my life is: controlling what can be controlled and executing strategies to manage what can't be controlled. A strategy I use to deal with such situations is to work out what, right now in that situation in that moment, can be controlled to my benefit.
Our 2018 summary
Posted: January 1, 2019
Happy New Year to all fans of The Curly Hair Project! Thank you very much for your support in 2018, it means the world to us! We wish you a happy, healthy, creative and successful 2019! In 2018 the CHP accomplished a lot of awesome things!! Some of our highlights include: How to develop self-confidence and belief
Posted: December 26, 2018
People on the autistic spectrum are prone to suffering from low self esteem. This usually stems from childhood, where a child who does not fit in, such as someone who is autistic, is likely to be bullied. Many autistic people are really interesting individuals with useful and sometimes amazing skills. So how can we help someone who is autistic appreciate their uniqueness and skills and therefore become more confident and have a stronger belief in themselves? 10 ways to deal with unreliable people
Posted: December 17, 2018
I sometimes describe myself as being like a robot. In fact, other people often remark on how routine, reliable, disciplined and predictable I am. It is a characteristic that people admire about me. They tease me about it but then they also say that they wish they were more like me! The main drawback of being so reliable is that the majority of other people are not as reliable, so there is actually a mismatch a lot of the time between me and other people.
Linear vs non-linear thinking
Posted: December 11, 2018
I have been reading about the idea of linear and non-linear thinking. Linear thinking is "ordered thinking in which one thought follows another in a straight line". This is in comparison to more non-linear thinking in which thoughts are "a bit more varied and each thought links to another in more than one way". This is my rough summary! Of course human beings and their thoughts are far more complex than this in reality. If I illustrate these two types of thinking, it might look like this: