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Maintaining a Sense of Value Examples

Highlighting examples on maintaining a sense of value for a person with Autistic

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Elements featured on this page:

Dignity, sense of purpose, expressions, not tight boxed & Natural

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Dignity

Dignity is one of an important Factor for an independent autistic adult to have to maintain the sense of value. Unfortunately this can be easily get ignored or undermined too easily. Without dignity it can cause serious harm to their quality of life and can damages their ability.

Speaking out

When it's safe to do so and it is important for an adult with autism to speak out when being mistreated or be bullied or be discriminated.

Examples

* Being exploited and misguided during a conversation

* Correcting someone if the other has misunderstood or has misjudged them.

* Being intolerant against the other person become unfairly intolerant

However, they must assess the situation beforehand if any attempts to speak out can risk any harm to their personal safety and their life.

Other examples you must be careful to prevent a safety risk

* Speaking out against being physically intimidated (including deliberately pushed, blocked and when someone has cut in front of their walking direction)

* Intolerant against being verbally & non-verbally discriminated

The potential risk which can be harmful if speaking out if an offender is aggressive, sly or is surrounded by a group of friends or family members who are protected and is supportive of the offender beliefs.

If the risk factors are too high then they must not attempt to speak out and instead report to officials such as police, management of location through an important member of staff at a place of work and education. Also, they should share your experiences with the important ones in their lives who are supportive.

It is very important not to disapprove an autistic persons right to stand up or to speak out against the way they are wrongly treated specially when they are experiencing excessive is damaging. Remember it is highly like to face more times I've been mistreated than they have admitted or shared. This means never heckle to mock an autistic person if they are speaking out or showing them up by telling them off.

Also, are times when speaking out is necessary especially when bullying, emotional abuse and when exploitation occurs. It can escalate to physical abuse, widespread stigma cause harm to personal safety & well being to a person with autism if the situation has been ignored for too long.

Assertive

It is important for them to have the right to stand up themselves when others are treating them so unfairly. Just because their differences may not be clearly understood does not mean they should be treated unfairly and should able to inform and be listened to & taken seriously on their experiences. If they are declined to share and to suffer in silence can inform can lead to them being psychologically and emotionally compromised.

Challenging when something is not right

When an adult person with autism senses something is not right then they have the right to speak up. And no one should use their differences or any perception to undermine their intelligence or character. Also a self-aware autistic should not be accused of having delusional views when sharing and should be given a benefit of the doubt. Because of the label end the stigma they face they do face situations where they face the sorts of distorted assumptions against what they share means they can be unfairly attacked.

Consideration efforts

Many independent and very self-aware adults with autism have many great qualities which enable them to be considerate to others. Sadly because of their differences, they can be easily disapproved and shame because of stigma caused by ignorance assumption associated with myths and typecasts.

This can lead to an autistic person consideration efforts can be easily unappreciated no matter of their good intentions. Also, they can face negative backlash when their consideration is easily exploited or face hostile attitudes.

This can lead to an autistic person to mistrust others because of their efforts to be considerate has been undermined.

They just humans

Just like everybody else what his people are humans too. This means they can be misinterpreted with the difficulties they have can get mixed up with errors and faults. This can lead to the effect to be unfairly stressed and pressurised. The more pressure and stress they are going through than the more harm to their concentration & coping mechanisms. This can be also be caused when there are specific environments & climates which is compromising. This includes when they are surrounded by people who are hostile or for having an argument and have a persistent bickering. Also, it can happen when they do not have to space or time out to a place to have there own developmental space.

See the dignity page for details

Sense of Purpose

Understanding an autistic person intention to have and to maintain their sense of purpose is essential. This is because any kind negative obstacles casuses greater harm than the average person. We must not ignore their sense of purpose because of prejudice attitudes such as focus too much on type casts, perceptions and the stigma that can cause which is caused by the harmful minority.

An autistic adult the get unfairly criticised and disrespected but we need to modify attitudes and instead take the time and to listen and to fully understand their intentions on what they like to achieve in life. This ranges from education employment or other factors which can help make a difference in the local community or the important people in their life. This means not to make any short-sighted assumptions, otherwise, you can draw to the wrong conclusions.

Summary:

* See an autistic person who lives at moderate levels beyond any perceptions

* Take time out to listen and understand the autistic person-centred values and what they need to do to achieve this.

* Be more aware of the challenges and obstacles that will get in the way. Some other challenges occur because of other people not making enough reasonable allowances.

* More interest and make an Alliances and encourage them to achieve their sense of purpose.

See the purpose page for details

Expressions & Experiences heard and respected

Communication is one of the factors which affects an autistic adult. How it affects an autistic person is differently from a person to person with any strengths in some qualities and can struggle in others types of communication.

Because of how their difficulties affect them, certain people unfortunately use this to undermine ignore all to violate their human rights to have their say in the way they had trying to express.

At times they can struggle to articulate their point. This can lead to impatient attitude against the autistic person where they can be either be silenced from making their point. Including being over talked, constantly interrupted and be shunned for communication too long (without realising the might be struggling). This can cause psychological and emotional harm against an autistic person if their expressions and feelings are constantly obstructed and suppressed. This can lead to very negative situations against them including frustration, anxiety and emotional despair.

They may also struggle in modifying their communications to different types of climates environments or circumstances when the expectation is needed to communicate much quick be spontaneous and to switch conversations quicker them the usual.

Summary

* Never use any communication difficulties to attack the character or integrity.

* They have a right to have their say in the way they are saying it and to be taken seriously at ground level.

* If what they share can be challenging to ever you believe what the person saying is not do not automatically run them or dismiss them on what they're saying. Instead, ask questions and give them the space to justify their point.

* If they are struggling to articulate their point effectively do not overrule them and compromise their psychological coping mechanisms.

* Remember if you penalised their communication difficulties for the wrong reasons will make a responsible judgement such as not to trust you.

* Make sure you monitor & adjust your reactions and patience if they are struggling.

See the expressions page for details

Not tight boxed

Despite society know about the autism spectrum generally, many people lack any kind distinctive knowledge among people who live with different levels> Examples including moderate & high functioning levels of autism which is different from others who has classic and severe symptoms. This can mean they be unfairly categorised as less intelligent and be spoken down at & treated as the level of general learning disabilities to conditions such as down syndrome which is not only offensive but is also extremly insulting.

Also due to the over perceived society autistic individuals can be over scrutinised and be unfairly categorised into labels such as oddness, weird, creepy, awkward and some make prejudice labels against their intelligence and fundamental ability. This means they can unfailingly be categorised with derogatory labels against them and be unfair. Also over perceived prejudice can be uncategorised as socially unacceptable or a nuisance. if they struggle with certain skills & abilities which most people have taken for granted. This can sadly lead to the affected face damaging prejudice against them.

Some people who react intolerantly against a particular autistic person. Including being verbally attacked, inconsiderate pressure without understanding causing psychological consequences when pushed too far. Also, they have their character attacked due to being disbelieved of their intelligence against their autistic condition.

Summary

* Don't make categorise an autistic adult at moderate & invisible levels without fully understanding them

* There is a person inside and they have feelings too.

* Get to understand their many strengths rather focusing too much on their differences

See the not boxed page for details

Natural & Authentic

Due to the range of difficulties an autistic person lives with, the pace of the day to day life can be compromising or harmful. Many of the affected can process information slower meaning it may be challenging when in a climate or environment with his fast-paced or high spontaneous.

At social environments, it can be overbearing for some and made to feel not feel part of that environment. It can cause a high amount of stress making them feel excluded, marginalised and alienated.

Because of an over perceptive society, they unfairly over scrutinise an autistic person in the community and be wrongly singled out. This includes constantly judging on every little detailed perception when an autistic person is visible from body language to the how they work or how they speak and communicate. The more society over scrutinises and make an unhelpful judgement, the more harmful it will cause for their ability to function in Society.

Any sort of unsympathetic remarks such as "that's the way it is", "get a grip", "you must learn" and ultimatum style language are not only unhelpful but also implies that they are inadequate and their presence is not appreciated. This regarding their difficulties and making them the environment which is changing can be can cause indirect harm to an autistic person in the long term.

Summary:

* Take time to understand the environment climate and circumstances they may live with.

* Be aware, unstable climates such as arguments and conflicts can cause psychological disruption to an autistic person not just to deal with the situation but also the day to day life. Further, it can disrupt their life goals or ambitions they want to achieve. The conflicting environment can also cause a harmful psychological effect on how they communicate or have relationships with others.

* Respect the pace which enables to an autistic person to manage many situations and never put unnecessary strain or pace.

* Always giving their space to have time out and have there own developmental space to maintain their stability full stop the developmental space is very important especially if you spend time with autism for a long amount of hours or more than many days.

* If an autistic person finding certain factors overbearing and psychologically draining such as the discussions or arguments, entertainment or at a specific environment then you support them and don't use this to attack their character and integrity for the wrong reasons.

See the natural page for details