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How to Beat Demand Avoidance

My Friend Autism

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How to Deal With an Autistic Person

When the autistic person in your life becomes anxious, starts to panic, let's be clear. Don't fall into the trap of matching the energy, the tone, the volume, the body language of the autistic people in your life. You can mirror people at their worst time. If you start to take that energy on and mirror that, maybe subconsciously, maybe consciously, or allow it to get you agitated, allow it to rile you up rather than staying calm,. then the whole situation will escalate to the point where there's no point in trying to make this video irrelevant. Next one. Stay calm.

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