Sitemap - 2023 - NeuroDivergent Rebel’s Substack

Autistic Hyper-focus and Monotropism: Why Getting Hooked on The Wrong Topic Can Be Dangerous

10 Strengths of NeuroDivergent People (That May Surprise You)

Stimming: The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful, and the Ugly Side of Stimming

My Anti-ABA Testimony: Parents are desperate to receive ABA for their children because they've been told its the only thing that will help them.

If Not ABA, then What? Increasing Communication, Language, and Academic Skills

If Not ABA, then What? Autistic People, Social Skills, and "Appropriate Play"- We socialize and play Autistically!

Workplace NeuroDiversity Rising (and many more) 50% off on Smashwords through January 1, 2024

Alternatives to ABA: If not ABA... then WHAT? - Helping Autistic People With "Self-Care Skills"

Alternatives to ABA: If not ABA... then WHAT? - ABA for "Problem Behaviors"

"If You Tried a Little Harder" - But I Was Already Trying My Hardest

The "I do that... and I'm not Autistic" or "everyone does that" to "I just found out I'm Autistic" Pipeline

You're "MORE than Your Autism" or "Stop Making Autism Your Entire Personality"

Sounding the Alarm: Battling the ABA Epidemic: ABAers Target ADHD and Kids Who Started School Late During COVID

AuDHD: Autism VS ADHD: What IS The Difference?

Autistic Travel & Nomad Living: Finding Stability in Instability on the Road

Holidays? I'm not a fan. #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics: How do you feel about holidays?

Have You Ever Been Punished (or Scolded) for Your NeuroDivergence?

Do YOU Stim with Music? Rhythmic Stimming – My Autistic NeuroDivergent Experience

Roller Skating Tonight in Farmington NM

Autism, ADHD, and Audio Processing Differences: I'm a MASTER at Hiding My Confusion

I Used to Hate Myself When I Thought I was NeuroTypical

Stress Responses and Autism: Fight: Meltdown, Flight: Elope/Bolt, Freeze: Shutdown, Fawn: Camouflage/Mask

Invite your friends to read NeuroDivergent Rebel’s Substack

#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics - what is YOUR experience of love like? How do YOU express your love and affection for those you care about?

The First Environment was Overstimulating, The Second Environment was Understimulating, but the Last Environment was Just Right

Maxed Out - Burnout and NeuroDivergence: Why Many Autistic and Other NeuroDivergent People are Teetering on a Dangerous Edge

Introducing the Autism and NeuroDiversity MasterClass - Special Offer

Stubborn Rebellious Child: Autistic, Demand Avoidant, and Anxious, with a High Need for Autonomy

Hyperlexic Autistic Life: Most of the Time, Writing is Easier for Me than Speaking (and takes way less of my energy)

Teetering on the Edge of Burnout and Ideation - Is being able to Camouflage one's NeuroDivergence a "privilege?"

My Autistic Truth: Two Choices - Modify Myself to Fit into the World OR Modify the World Around Me to Fit My Needs

Coming out: It's not something we do "just once." It's something we will do over and over again our entire lives.

Autism, Memory, & Change: Why Even Good Change is Hard for Me as an Autistic Person

Autism is NOT a Mental Illness! What IS Autism: Autistic People Without the Pathology

Autism & Driving: Can Autistic People Drive?

Autistic Sensory Sensitive Life with Competing & Conflicting Sensory Needs

Can Autistic People Love? Thoughts on Love, Autism, NeuroDivergence, Passion, and Life

Sunday Post on a Saturday! RV Life Updates

Hacking my ADHD Brain: Running IT so IT doesn't run ME

Empathy for Autistic People: Autism and the Double Empathy Problem

Animal Behavoirsm is Kinder than Human Behaviorism

Replay of today’s LIVE interview with Ayanna Davis of Phenomenally Autistic

Autism and Spiky Skills: Leaning into My Autistic Strengths (and Avoiding My Weaknesses)

Openly Autistic: Why I DON'T Recommend Disclosing an Autism Diagnosis While Job Seeking (in MOST Situations)

Energy Regulation (Emotional, Sensory, Dopamine) for NeuroDivergent People

Escaping an Abusive Relationship with Society: A Late Diagnosed Autism Story - My Autistic Life

Autism and Overwhelm: Autistic Meltdowns, Shutdowns, and Overloads - Oh my!

NeruoDivergence, Autism, ADHD, and Finding a Career that Works for YOU

The History of the Puzzle Piece (a Controversial Symbol for Autism and Autistic People), ABA, Conversion Therapy, & Autism Speaks

Autism and Cannabis: My Personal Experience as an Autistic Person Using Medical Cannabis for My Co-occurring Conditions

NeuroDivergent Emotional Safety and Organizational Culture

"How can you make a living on social media?" - I (and most people) DON'T!

NeuroDivergent Rebels After Dark - with Lyric & David Rivera

Gate-Keeping is Gross (it's also exclusionary and elitist): Self-Identified Autistic and Other NeuroDivergent Humans are Valid

Monotropism and Autism: What IS Monotropism and how does it apply to Autistic People?

AskingAutistics is BACK - LIVE on Facebook with guest Phenomenally Autistic!!!

Autism Gender? Explaining NeuroGenders: What do AutiGender and NeuroGender mean?

Blame is Deadly: NeuroDivergent People are NOT the Problem - The Problems are Systemic

Abusive Bosses Who Coerce and Control through Manipulations and "Unspoken Rules" - I Have Had a Few

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Visual Thinking - My Autistic Experience

Signs of Abusive People – 10 Red Flags - An Autistic Guide to Detecting Manipulative & Abusive People

It is FINALLY Happening!

Autistic Disclosure Toolkit: A handy guide to help when coming out of The Autism Closet

The Danger of "Having Empathy" for and Protecting Abusers

Can Autistic People Understand Humor and Sarcasm?

Do Autistic People Have Sex – The Truth About Autism & Sex

Autism & Social Skills - Autistic People Socialize & Play in an Autistic Way

Things I Didn’t Realize Were Related to Being NeuroDivergent (Autistic and ADHD or AuDHD) Before I Was Diagnosed “with Autism” and ADHD

Autistic Speech Patterns: Echolalia, Palilalia, Scripting, and Vocal Stimming

What IS Grooming?

My Autistic Truth: More than ANYTHING I Deeply Long to be Understood

REMINDER: Facebook LIVE - Adults ONLY - After Dark with Lyric Rivera

Behaviorism 101: Identifying Autistic, NeuroDivergent, and Other forms of Conversion "Therapy"

Objections to the Terms Autistic and NeuroDivergent "Conversion Therapy"

You Can Get a Copy of Workplace NeuroDiversity Rising for Half-Off in July!

Going live in less than an hour on FB!

NeuroQueer Timelines: Conversion Therapy, Queer History, and ABA - The Pains of Watching History Repeat Itself

You don't have to have been subjected to formal Autistic Conversion Therapy to have experienced behaviorism and its harms.

How many NeuroDivergent people's skills are lost (or never have a chance to grow) because those NeuroDivergent People are stuck in survival mode?

Do I Wish I Could Have Been Diagnosed Autistic Sooner?

Invite your friends to read NeuroDivergent Rebel’s Substack

Announcing the July 2023 Facebook LIVE Schedule & a BONUS Surprise Live Later THIS Month

There's no Cure for Autism (I Don't Want One) - I Will Always BE Autistic

10 Reasons We Need Autistic Pride

AskingAutistics: What do YOU wish non-autistics understood about Autism and Autistic People?

What IS Autism? How do you explain being Autistic to people?

What it’s like when you’ve adjusted to your diagnosis? - The Journey to Self Acceptance Doesn’t End with a Diagnosis

Friendly Reminder: The First Pride Was a Riot

Coming Out Autistic and ADHD: Is Coming out NeuroDivergent Like Coming Out of the Closet?

Autistic Burnout -The Silent Killer - Recognizing, Preventing, and Recovering from Burnout

"Why DO they stay?" Talking about why people stay in abusive relationships.

How do you overcome shame about vocal stimming?

Visiting Griffin Memorial Hospital an Abandoned Mental Health Institution in Norman Oklahoma

RV Life Lessons: Fulltime RVing on a Budget - RV Living isn't always glamorous. Sometimes it sucks.

I See NeuroDivergent People... I want to tell them they are NeuroDivergent... because I don't think they know.

Autism and Stimming: Why Do Autistic People Stim?

Autism and Meltdowns: I am an Autistic Adult and I Still Have Meltdowns (and probably always will)

"You Must be High Functioning!" I Don't Have High-Functioning Autism - I am Autistic

Do un-traumatized NeuroDivergent People exist? Would we know them if we saw them?

When I said "There's no such thing as severe Autism" most people missed the point.

Autism & Choices: Why Making Decisions is Hard for Me as an Autistic Person

If an Autistic Person isn't Struggling "Are they Autistic?"

Taking a Small Break: No Facebook Lives in May - I WILL be back in June (schedule included).

NeuroDivergence, Surviving Capitalism as an Autistic ADHD Human, and Finding a Career Path that Works for YOU

NeuroDivergence Time & Hyperfocus - Managing Time & Hyperfocus as an NeuroDivervgent Person so it Doesn't Ruin Your Life (an Autistic ADHD Perspective)

Abused at School: Why Autistic Kids May Not Speak Up When They've Been Harmed by a Teacher

Autistic People and "Huge Emotions" or "Big Feelings" - When Emotions are "Too Big" and Overwhelming

Happy 420: Reminder our government used racist propaganda to fuel our country’s fear of cannabis, in order to criminalize it's users

Autistic Trans Adults are the Latest Target of Anti-Trans Legislation (but ALL Autistics are in Danger)

Self-Identified Autistics: IS diagnosis a Privilege? Why Some People May Self-Diagnose with Autism

Do I seem MORE Autistic to you NOW? Why many Autistics stop camouflaging their Autistic traits post autism discovery.

Autism and the Wonderful World of Autistic Stimming - What IS Autistic Stimming and WHY do Autistic People Stim?

AskingAutistics LIVE with Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. (The Black Autist) & Lyric Rivera (NeuroDivergent Rebel)

Autism, NeuroDivergence, and Energy Regulation - I Always Seem to be "Too Much"

Autistic "Insistence on Sameness"... or Comfort in Familiarity?

Hints & Signs I Was Autistic – Why My Autism Was Missed Growing Up

Meltdowns, Elopements, Shutdowns, and Sensory Overloads - Oh MY!

The Autism Problem - NonAutistics Treat Autistic People Like we're Broken NeuroTypicals (but We're NOT)

Autistic Wishes for World Autism Day 2023

Autism Month, Autism Tourists, and Autistic Demonization All in the name of Awareness

Late Autism Diagnosis & Generational Trauma - When Loved Ones Don't Accept that You ARE Autistic

International Transgender Day of Visibility - Visibility is Defiance

Autism Doesn't End at 18 - What Happens when Autistic Adults Age?

Autism isn't Something I Take "With Me" it IS Me - I AM Autistic

NeuroDivergent NonBinary NeuroQueering NeuroAdventures

Autistic Burnout Saved My Life & Is HOW I learned that I'm Autistic

The Missing Generations of Autistic People

Autism, Understanding, Rebirth, Disclosures, Loss, & Love

Who IS Lyric Rivera - the NeuroDivergent Rebel?

Coming soon

AskingAutistics – David & Lyric Rivera – Autistic Differences – Food Sensitivities and Friendships

AskingAutistics – David Rivera – What’s hard and How do you stay so positive?

AskingAutistics – David Rivera – What’s David into? (Photography and Corrupt Government Systems)

AskingAutistics – David Rivera – Autism, NeuroDivergence, & RV Life

AskingAutistics – David Rivera – How do you maintain a Healthy Relationship while on the Spectrum?

AskingAutistics Interview – David Rivera – What do you do about clashing NeuroDivergent traits?

Workplace NeuroDiversity Rising – Start Making Immediate Changes to the World Around You

AskingAutistics Interview David Rivera – What Gives You Sensory Euphoria and Relaxes you?

AskingAutistics – David Rivera pt 1 – Autism, Echolalia, and Mimicry

2022 Was Amazing and I am EXCITED about 2023