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Christine Michailides
- Apr 24
- 2 min
Counselling Deconstructed Post 1
Counselling doesn't work for me. Here are 15 common reasons why people may be hesitant to participate in therapy. We hear this a lot from...
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Christine Michailides
- Jan 22
- 2 min
This post will be sad if you don't read it
Extreme empathy towards inanimate objects/foodstuffs? Scraping food scraps into the bin causes anxiety, throwing away broken, torn,...
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Christine Michailides
- Jan 15
- 4 min
Neurodiversity Affirmation in Action
Bill Mason, the author of The Autism Discussion Page, is prolific in producing content on his Facebook page for free. Then, he compiles...
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Christine Michailides
- Jan 10
- 1 min
More Than Just Tastes
If an autistic child has restrictive and repetitive behaviours around eating, it is easy to assume, "oh that's just an autistic thing"...
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Christine Michailides
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
Neurodiversity Affirmative Business Expansion
Cherish Clinic is undergoing some major expansions right now to incorporate new therapists and as well as a couple of backend staff. ...
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Christine Michailides
- Jul 2, 2021
- 4 min
What is really happening when parents grieve their healthy children?
The reality is that most parents experience grieve their children's gender transition, sexual orientation, neurodiversity diagnoses, etc,...
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Christine Michailides
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Shifting Towards Neurodiversity Affirmative Practice
It has been almost three years since I started my private practice specializing in neurodiverse children and families. I have always...
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Christine Michailides
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
How to increase independence in our children?
"If my kids screamed 'Mom, I need x!', one more time I am going to lose my mind!" a stressed-out parent vented in an ASD parenting...
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Christine Michailides
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
Managing Our Own Pathological Demand Avoidance
I am a adult with PDA and I am really struggling as in graudate level education. I have always love learning, I do like my education...
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Christine Michailides
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
Parent Contribution: Accepting vs Being Supportive
This is an anonymous parent contribution as a response to my last post. I recommend reading this even if it doesn't personally concern...
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Christine Michailides
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
How do I explain gender identities to autistic children? Part 1
My 9-year-old son is obsessed with a classmate who uses the pronoun they/their/them. He keeps asking the child "are you a boy or girl?"...
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Christine Michailides
- Jul 8, 2020
- 2 min
Can Mask Refusal be a Demand Avoidant Behaviour?
There are many videos circulating the internet featuring adults having disproportionally large and public negative reactions when they...
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Christine Michailides
- Jun 20, 2020
- 2 min
Should parents show negative emotions around their children?
"Recently, my 4-year-old daughter has been coming up to me and giving kisses when I look frustrated. I am more frustrated juggling work...
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