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#Autism and the Menstrual Cycle Free Discussion Group this Saturday!

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It’s a great chance to connect, learn, and be in community.

We discuss the sensory issues and demands around having a cycle, as well as pressures to consistently produce.

The #Autistic Women Free Discussion Group will meet this Saturday, November 8.

We’ll be reading and discussing an essay from Wired Our Own Way, an anthology of Irish autistic voices, called Autistic at Seventy.

Join us!

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"Special" Interests

Our new podcast episode on special interests has dropped

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#Autism and the Menstrual Cycle Free Discussion Group this Saturday!

Sign up here: www.patriceriley.com/autistic-pre...

It’s a great chance to connect, learn, and be in community.

We discuss the sensory issues and demands around having a cycle, as well as pressures to consistently produce.

My free, monthly #Autism and the Menstrual Cycle Free Discussion Group meets this Saturday 10/18:

www.patriceriley.com/autistic-pre...

Please join us in this warm community that shares the experiences of autism and menstruation. Learn from others, and experience being seen, known, and valued.

In which we talk about sensory relief

Transforming the Inner Oppressor with IFS — Autistic IFS Practitioner for Women | Patrice Riley | Autistic Peer Support Coach for Women | Coaching for Irish Diaspora Members Healing from Complex Trau... Using IFS to work with internalized ableism, sexism, and colonialism helps resolve inner conflict and create more room for ease in relationship with self and other. When we turn inside and bring cur...

Feeling distress or helplessness about the increasing polarities in the wider world? Read on for how I worked with my own internalized oppressors; doing so allowed me to resolve inner conflict and create room for ease in relationship with self and other.

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New episode day! Autistic Stuff for Autistic People is talking about meltdowns, what they feel like and how they are different from tantrums. @autisticstuffpod.bsky.social @theautisticcoach.bsky.social @autisticjoy.bsky.social @autisticpresence.bsky.social www.spreaker.com/episode/melt...

Befriending the Fawn: Using IFS to Get to Know Compliant Parts — Autistic IFS Practitioner for Women | Patrice Riley | Autistic Peer Support Coach for Women | Coaching for Irish Diaspora Members Heal... Fascism requires a compliant population to take hold. This month’s blog is about using an Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach to get to know my fawning, or compliant, part, and develop a relationsh...

This month’s essay is an exploration of getting to know my fawning part, and how doing so is a way for all of us to extract ourselves from the compliant populace necessary for fascism to take hold. #autism #IFS

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Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.

Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.

WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

New episode from my other podcast about being autistic! www.spreaker.com/episode/reje... @theautisticcoach.bsky.social @autisticpresence.bsky.social @autisticjoy.bsky.social @autisticstuffpod.bsky.social

Rejection Sensitivity or Real Rejection? Autistic Stuff for Autistic People · Episode

In our newest episode we explore RSD

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Parts and Palestine: Listening Within For the Way Forward — Autistic IFS Practitioner for Women | Patrice Riley | Autistic Peer Support Coach for Women | Coaching for Irish Diaspora Members Healing fr... This month’s blog post is about the internal complexity I and others contend with in the face of external tragedies like the genocide in Palestine. From an Internal Family Systems (IFS) - informed len...

I wrote about the internal complexity we contend with in the face of tragedies like the genocide in Palestine. Hear the perspective of my parts, how I earn their trust, and then allow their concerns & wisdom to inform how I take action to help. #IFS

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Thanks, Matthew, for sharing!

Parts and palestine — Autistic IFS Practitioner for Women | Patrice Riley | Autistic Peer Support Coach for Women | Coaching for Irish Diaspora Members Healing from Complex Trauma Due to Generational... The people of Gaza are starving due to obstruction of aid by the Israeli government. I am heartbroken and want to help. Alongside my heartbreak, many other parts inside me hold other, divergen...

my friend and colleague @autisticpresence.bsky.social has written a beautiful piece on what's coming up for so many of us in this current moment.

www.patriceriley.com/blog/parts-a...

Are you looking for a neuro-affirming autistic peer-support coach?

The Autistic Peer Support Coaching Collective has coaches all over the world and offers dozens of free support groups online every month.

www.autisticcoaches.com

Did you know...?

Autistic burnout is pervasive, long-term (3+ months) exhaustion, loss of function, and reduced tolerance to stimulus. It's described as being the result of chronic life stress and a mismatch of expectations and abilities without adequate supports.

#iykyk

Why the “all autistic people lack empathy” narrative is wrong…

Autistic people actually experience empathy in a wide range of ways

E.g. a study in 2023 found:

- many experience hyper-empathy
- some experience low empathy
- some experience empathy but find it difficult to understand or express

My monthly #Autism and the Menstrual Cycle Free Discussion Group meets this Saturday 06/21 on Zoom.

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If you share the experiences of autism and menstruation:

please join us in an opportunity to learn from each other, and to be seen, known, and valued.

Who is speaking? — Autistic IFS Practitioner for Women | Patrice Riley | Autistic Peer Support Coach for Women | Coaching for Irish Diaspora Members Healing from Complex Trauma Due to Generational Al... After I left my accounting job in late 2023 to heal from autistic burnout, the first few months of recovery weren’t pretty. A “productive” day was one where I’d get around to changing out of my sw...

Here’s my new blog post about using #IFS to get to know a legacy burden and heal from #autistic burnout:

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Autistic IFS Practitioner for Women | Patrice Riley | Autistic Peer Support Coach for Women | Coaching for Irish Diaspora Members Healing from Complex Trauma Due to Generational Alcoholism Catholic Ch... Patrice Riley is a neurodivergent-affirming, trauma responsive Internal Family Systems (IFS) - informed practitioner. She coaches autistic women and Irish diaspora members who are healing ancestral wo...

I’ll be sending out my monthly newsletter tomorrow, with resources, offerings, and a new blog post about healing from #autistic burnout and intergenerational trauma.

If you’d like to receive it, you can sign up on my website:

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A moon illuminated with the words: “Autistic Women / A Free Discussion Group / Saturday, June 7, 2025, 10:00-11:30am PST, 1:00-2:30pm EST, 6:00-7:30pm BST

My #Autistic Women Free Discussion Group will meet next Saturday, June 7.

We’ll be reading and discussing an essay from Wired Our Own Way, an anthology of Irish autistic voices, called I Don’t Have A Defective Version of What You Have.

Join us!

www.patriceriley.com/autistic-pre...

Metabolized anger can be an amazing catalyst for positive change.

The key is to not externalize it in ways that hurt others.

And to titrate in and out - I stop and take breaks when needed.

If the anger overwhelms me, I’ll gently ask it to dial down the intensity. Surprisingly, this works! (/6)

Or, if the energy for movement isn’t there, it’s helpful to light a candle and sit with the flame itself for a while. Something about being with the fire helps me to be with the fiery anger inside, without it overwhelming me. (/5)

“Anger needs heat,” my teacher Francis Weller says.

So I keep moving –wash some dishes, fold some laundry, go for a walk, take a strength training class. (/4)

When the anger is present, I find it’s helpful to notice it, and to create a little distance from the anger by saying to myself, “A part of me feels really angry right now.” (/3)

Rage for the missed opportunities for understanding, for healing, for accommodations.

Rage for the years of distress, burnouts, communication breakdowns that perhaps could have been avoided if a diagnosis had been present sooner. (/2)

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Many late discovered, highly masked #autistics know there’s a particular type of rage that comes with having an invisible disability that wasn’t diagnosed until later in life. (/1)

For #autistic people looking into workplace accommodations, Ask Jan is a helpful resource:

askjan.org/disabilities...