So, how do you tell your family and friends that you're artistic difficult?
Huh?
Here are three top strategies coming up.
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So, um, I have been asked this questions a home many times, like.
I, I probably, this is probably the most asked question I have
ever been asked on comments.
This is how to tell your family, you are autistic, right?
How do you tell your family you're artistic now?
It's an interesting one because this is the first thing I did.
As soon as I was diagnosed with autism, I came home and I told my
family because it was something that.
I felt was so important that I didn't need to know.
So I have basically written down three strategies about explaining it.
You know, how to tell them you are artistic from the get-go.
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Okay.
So let's go through these strategies.
So number one is explaining the process now by explaining
the process of how you got your assessment and what to place in it.
It allows them to peel, feel part of the journey and almost like
they're there with you, and this is good for them to understand and
connect with you when you need it.
And so by telling them how, you know, the process you went through, the,
the, the assessment, what happened, who was there, what it felt like.
What was the outcome.
They kind of get a real sense of what it is.
You don't just go home and say hi and wants us to deal with it.
You come home and you say like, Hey, I just went for the
assessment and I did this thing.
And then I was, you know what I mean?
It's like an ongoing process of a, um, of a relationship that allows people
into your world and allows them to understand from your perspective what's
going on, that is key for them to understand and support you going forward.
Especially family and friends is so, so important because.
They need to see the big picture.
They need to see the whole picture because if they don't see the whole picture,
how are they ever gonna be able to understand, you know, you needed the whole
picture and understand, so they do too.
Okay.
So number two is research.
Now it's important to present research to your family.
Um, and, uh, the information that they're going to need to
have more info on the subject.
So basically when you're telling them about it, it's, you've told
them the story, you told them how it came about, but then they'll
want to know, well, what is autism?
So what you should really do is get some information, it, research, videos, videos
like this one or something like that.
Again, some PDF information, maybe some books you can get from the
library and then hand them to them and just say like, Hey, you know, This
is actual research, extra readings.
So one of the things my parents did after I told them I was on the
alternate spectrum is that they went and researched it for themselves.
I handed them some booklets and stuff like that.
And so they could get a well-rounded more educated view on it, even though
they kind of knew me inside out, it was just nicer to know from a
professional standpoint, what kind of all this meant, you know, Okay.
So number three is the full picture.
Now trying to, you're not trying your best explain to everyone
in your family group, right?
As if you only have to explain it to a small amount of people and you
all the issues, and you know that you've come across on them, tell
them everything about the situation and give them the full picture.
Like, you know, There's one thing, knowing the process, you went through
that, there's another thing, reading the research, but if they don't know you and
your struggles and your issues and the things that you know, you have struggles
with, and they're the people you're going to be around the whole time, then
how are they supposed to support you?
You know?
So it's, it's more of a, more of a, Hey, why don't we, you know, all knuckle down,
listen to what you know, you have to say about your autism and then going forward,
they can support you and then they can help you in certain situations because
they know it, they know the full picture.
They're not everything.
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