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How to thrive in a public highschool as an autistic girlie? I’m going into 11th grade and i want to be successful and thrive in school. but i struggle with procrastination, and a messy sleep schedule. plus my sensory issues too :( any tips?
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Anonymous 8w

That’s exciting! Here are some tips which I absolutely did not use in high school and sort of crashed and burned lol. But I use them successfully as an adult. (Audhd)

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Anonymous 8w

Procrastination - it may help you to schedule some time doing homework or whatever each day. Like a time you’ll sit down at the kitchen table and work on it. I don’t know if body doubling like this is as helpful for autistic people as it is for just ADHD people, but it could be worth a try. Or schedule it for yourself someplace where you’re not distracted.

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Anonymous 8w

Sleep schedule – this one really depends on what’s keeping you from going to bed. If you can identify that, you can work on it. I have to start getting ready for bed way earlier than the average person in order to actually get in bed on time.

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Anonymous 8w

Sensory issues – it’s a process of learning to identify what’s really bothering you and accommodate it in some way (that is appropriate to the setting), but it’s hard to give specific advice since it varies person to person. Hopefully you have a few trusted people that can help you work on any compromises or get accommodations when needed.

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Anonymous 7w

504 is your friend

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Anonymous 6w

My IEP was soooo unhelpful for me. My advice is to keep going even if it gets hard as I stopped going towards the end and regressed a LOT. I would highly recommend sticking it out for the diploma

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Anonymous 7w

Idk babe i dropped out and went to community college. High school is not worth a damn imo

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

I found it really helps to use an agenda religiously: write down an assignment or or event as soon as I hear about it, and then check/use the agenda every day. I have one with a bunch of little built-in check boxes, and it gives me the dopamines to check off the check boxes. It’s like gamifying the work, which motivates me to check everything off for the day/week.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6w

Helpful** not unhelpful 😭

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