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She Rocks the Spectrum
A Therapy Center for Autistic Girls & Women
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What is Executive Dysfunction and How Can You Deal with It?
Picture this: You have people coming over soon. You need to prepare food for them. You’re also starving right now. Your house is an absolute mess. And you need to get ready. And you also have a very, very, very important presentation tomorrow that you need to rehearse. Aaaaaand the barista from earlier got your coffee order wrong. What a mess . What do you do? For most people, this might be a bit of a stressful crunch, but they manage to do everything. The coffee? Just
Ashley Kang
6 hours ago3 min read


PDA (Persistent Drive for Autonomy) in Autistic Adults
We all hate when someone asks to do something right when we’re about to do it. It’s like, I was going to do it, but now that you’re telling me to do it, I don’t want to.” This is a common experience, to the point that there have been multiple rounds of memes about it. While everyone experiences it, for autistic people, it’s not a joke. Being asked to do something can feel terrible, to the point of even painful at times. As an autist, I personally would always hate when my m
Ashley Kang
Feb 263 min read
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