It is critical that you do not center yourself or your own emotions when a meltdown is occurring. I covered some of this in the article I wrote for the embarrassed parent. Don’t center yourself and your feelings about the meltdown.Your autistic loved one is already at capacity for how much sensory input they can manage, and yelling at them will send them right over the edge. Yelling may release your frustration for a few seconds, but it can devastate the autistic person, and it will lead to a worsening of the meltdown. I understand how overwhelmed you must feel when a meltdown starts to happen, but do not yell. Don’t yell at the person having the meltdown.So here’s what NOT to do when your autistic loved one is having a meltdown:
However, I’m here to tell you that if you avoid doing the following during a meltdown, things will go much smoother, and you will be far less likely to make the meltdown worse and/or traumatize your autistic loved one. Us autistic people are startled by neurotypical people all the time because we both see and process the world so differently. If you’re neurotypical, and a meltdown occurs in front of you, you may get scared, embarrassed, and worried, and you may have the urge to flee the scene with your screaming autistic loved one in tow.įirst, these are normal human responses to being startled like this. And, it’s a good idea to get that education from autistic people (like me–and my autistic partner who helped me come up with some of these suggestions based on her experience working with autistic children as a paraprofessional). That’s why it’s important to educate yourself on what to do before they occur.
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When your autistic child, student, or adult loved one is having a meltdown, it can be difficult to know how to handle it in the moment.
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