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Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

A Guide for Autistic Wellbeing

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Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults

By: Luke Beardon
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Are you an autistic adult? Do you love, live or work with an autistic adult? The incredible insights and practical strategies in this audiobook will diminish your stress and anxiety if you are autistic and will help your autistic loved one or colleague live well, flourish and thrive if you can improve and adjust their environment if you aren't.

One of the biggest challenges if you are an autistic adult (or suspect you might be) is navigating the situations that to the predominantly neurotypical population might appear completely benign but cause you huge stress, anxiety and worry.

At work, at university, in social situations, in friendships, relationships, in shops, in unfamiliar environments - there are a wealth of things that can make you feel overwhelmed if the world is full of things that you feel nobody else notices but that cause you huge distress.

Dr Luke Beardon has put together an optimistic and upbeat guide that will be essential listening not just for any autistic adult, but for anyone who loves, lives with or works with an autistic person. Emphasising that autism is not behaviour, but at the same time acknowledging that there are risks of increased anxiety specific to autism, this practical audiobook gives clear strategies that the autistic person can adopt to minimise their anxiety and live comfortably in a world full of what may seem to be noise and chaos.

At the same time, Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults gives clear guidelines and mission statements to those who live or work with autistic people that they, too, can implement to accommodate needs that are different to their own, taking a radical new step towards a genuinely inclusive world in which autistic people don't just survive, but in which they thrive.

©2021 Luke Beardon (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Children's Health Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Autism Health Special need
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"A must-read." (Kieran Rose, The Autistic Advocate)

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I thought this book would be about the general worrying, anxiety and panic attacks that autistics can sometimes have.
However, it was actually about the environmental factors that affect autistics and make everyday life harder for them. It read like an academic paper on these factors and felt like it was aimed more at nurotypical people and how they should improve things.

It was well written and I think if you are new to autism and/or don't have an understanding of how external factors have negative effects on your autism then this is the book for you.

If you already know loud noises are difficult to deal with, change is a struggle etc then I don't think it is as helpful.

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As an autistic person this was a really empowering listen. There were lots of points in this book when I thought yes, that’s definitely me! If I’m honest, I maybe feel floods of adrenaline maybe 20 times per day and this is the first book I’ve read in a while where I’m understanding why! I am without doubt in a better place for listening to this book! Thank you Luke for being an amazing advocate for autistic people!

Just awesome!!

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This book by Dr Luke Beardon is an incredibly profound and in depth depiction illuminating the lesser known aspects of what it means to be autistic. Autistic voices, historically excluded, are heard loud and clear throughout making this insightful piece, absobloominlutely, a must read.

Profound, illuminating, and beautifully insightful

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As a newly suspected autistic person who suffers with anxiety. This book has opened my eyes into thing that might help, things that I do and things that I can ask for reasonably.

Amazing and informative

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As an adult who has come to identification throughs struggles with anxiety, the was an immensely helpful book. It has some great advice on self acceptance, sense of identity and ideas for asserting your own needs and boundaries. It would also be a great read for partners, friends and family of autistic adults.

Very helpful for newly identified adult

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