Tag: autistic

• how I manage sensory overload with a demand-barker…

  

  I have often gotten questions about how I deal with sensory overload when working with animals as an autistic person. Working with animals can feel very overwhelming. When I trained dogs in shelters, there would often be hours spent with 50-200 dogs barking at top volume in loud, echoey hallways. When I worked at an…

  Dani

  February 9, 2024

  all topics, animal care, animal hospice work, autism & sensory processing disorder, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, sorrel

  animals, autistic, canine hospice, sensory processing, sorrel

• ARFID, Cultural Impacts, and Self-Directed Safe-Foods Expansion

  

  Being a “picky eater” is a woefully inadequate description of ARFID (which stands for “Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder”). Most of the time, it didn’t even have to do with disliking certain foods. A food could look good, smell good, even taste good to me, but my body physically wouldn’t let me swallow it. It…

  Dani

  March 1, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, eating disorders, food, kitchenwork, main works, published works

  accessibility, accommodations, ARFID, autistic, disability, eating disorders, kitchenwork, neurodiversity, sensory processing

• Accessible Kitchen Hacks

  

  Over time I have developed not only the skills to create food, but the skills to accommodate my disabilities in the kitchen. It has been a work in progress, and always will be, as my condition progresses and I go through new struggles in the future. But, for now, I would like to share the…

  Dani

  October 5, 2022

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, kitchenwork, main works, published works

  accessibility, accommodations, autistic, chronic illness, disability, kitchenwork, neurodiversity