Answering a listener question about how to handle meltdowns and shutdowns at work, and around people you don't trust. This episode covers a few ways to both plan for, push away, and handle meltdowns once they're happening in a public place.

Previous episodes about meltdowns:

• 13 Autistic Meltdowns & Shutdowns
• 23 You Are Not a Burden (Mattia talking about a specific meltdown they had)
• 6 Healing Relational Trauma (guest Pasha and Mattia talk about recent meltdowns around our partners)

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I almost died two weeks ago. It's easy to miss symptoms when one has low interoception and a high pain tolerance.

Episode is around the difficulties seeking care... and why it's very worth it sometimes!

p.s. episodes are coming out on Saturdays now

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4. UK study questioning the oft-quoted statistic about autistic people living 16 years less long than allistic people. TLDR: Autistic people do seem to live less long on average, but as many people are undiagnosed, it's hard to get an accurate number.

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Yes, still on about money. In this case, how we're sold the idea that it will exempt us from human suffering... but it will not!

What would you do with your time if money truly were not an issue?

Do you have any access to that now? Even if it looks different than you think it's supposed to?

What's enjoyable, outside of the paradigm of earning or mastery?

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