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Finding Your Path to Neurodivergence-Affirming Therapy: A Guide for Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Mar 272 min read

Finding Your Path to Neurodivergence-Affirming Therapy: A Guide for Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults

As an adult with a late diagnosis of autism, getting around can frequently feel like negotiating a terrain full of unspoken difficulties...

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UPCOMING: Next Late-Discovered Autistic Community meeting is on 3/26

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Feb 261 min read

UPCOMING: Next Late-Discovered Autistic Community meeting is on 3/26

I have to admit, this membership community feels like it's own entity.

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To The Autistic Parents Out There Trying their Best

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Feb 242 min read

To The Autistic Parents Out There Trying their Best

No wonder you are overwhelmed and barely hanging on. I see you. Take a deep breath...

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Reflections on running an autistic membership community for 5 months

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Feb 182 min read

Reflections on running an autistic membership community for 5 months

Like with most everything else I do (thanks, ADHD!), I hit the ground running when I started my private practice.

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Jan 272 min read

Reflections from my nightly walk

So, when I avoid people or talk about how hard it is to interact with them, people assume that I just don't like people.

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My journey of embracing my unmasked autistic self

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Jan 182 min read

My journey of embracing my unmasked autistic self

I was loud, inappropriate according to neurotypical culture and utterly lost. I was emulating a culture I had no real understanding of...

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Jan 12 min read

What if we let autism win?

Many of us want to come out to our friends and loved ones as autistic but we are scared.

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Are my children missing out because they have an autistic parent vs an allistic one?

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 28, 20232 min read

Are my children missing out because they have an autistic parent vs an allistic one?

On my worst days, I try to remember how I am continuing to learn about my needs and do better.

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Is having an autistic therapist necessary for autistic folx?

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 26, 20232 min read

Is having an autistic therapist necessary for autistic folx?

Although the name of my business is My Autistic Therapist, being autistic is not the only reason why I believe my services are helpful.

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 26, 20232 min read

Services in 2024

In the beginning of 2023, I was still working for a corporation and dreaming of beginning full-time private practice work.

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Unmasking can look however the f*ck you want!

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 24, 20232 min read

Unmasking can look however the f*ck you want!

Unmasking can look however the f*ck you want.

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How I View Healing As An Autistic Therapist

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 23, 20232 min read

How I View Healing As An Autistic Therapist

Healing means picking up the broken and jagged pieces of ourselves and asking ourselves what we need.

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When a program has "neurodivergence-affirming" written on their website...

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 21, 20233 min read

When a program has "neurodivergence-affirming" written on their website...

I recently made a video about an experience I had when signing my child up for a supposedly “neurodivergence-affirming” inclusive dance...

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 19, 20233 min read

What I’ve learned from my first 5.5 months as an autistic business owner

My hope is to continue to grow My Autistic Therapist to run more support groups, expand the membership community, and potentially employ....

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Dec 14, 20232 min read

I am doing the work too

For my entire life I have hidden so much of myself that it became a habit...

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Nov 26, 20231 min read

When your mask becomes your prison.

For high masking autistic folks who had to become hyperindependent to survive, our masks became our prisons.

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Nov 25, 20232 min read

Disability is not a bad word.

In the past, I would’ve ground myself down to the bone by overcompensating to avoid being perceived as “disabled.”

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I'm Breaking Up With "Natural Consequences."

Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Nov 22, 20232 min read

I'm Breaking Up With "Natural Consequences."

“But how are your children going to learn if you withhold natural consequences from them?”

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Nov 18, 20232 min read

Mindfulness & AuDHD

Many people with ADHD describe feeling like they are driven by a motor and a constant need to go, go, go.

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Danielle Aubin, LCSW

Nov 14, 20232 min read

Being autistic and taking up space

So one of the biggest challenges we face as we unmask and heal from burn out, is the forces within ourselves that keep us small...

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