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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Jun 4, 2025, 11:02:34 PM
I have been noticing a pattern lately (hello, Whitney's Autism), both in terms of things I'm seeing in the online spaces I'm in and also in the therapy room, and it's a tough one. So it looks like we need to have a proper discussion about Autistic burnout.
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Apr 2, 2025, 12:55:02 PM
April 2nd is recognized as World Autism Awareness Day (or World Autism Acceptance Day, but more on that later), and typically my social media feeds are full of friends, family members, and folks from the community using the puzzle piece symbol and lighting it up blue. This recognition of Autism is amazing, and it warms my heart to know how far...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Dec 29, 2023, 2:32:38 PM
This blog is a companion blog to "Doctor Visits for Neurodivergent Folks," wherein I discuss specific ways that neurodivergent people can best prepare for an effective visit with their doctors. Patients do have the ability to have the best possible visit with their doctor, but only so much. It's us, clinicians, who have a lot of the power. So let...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Dec 29, 2023, 11:40:20 AM
If there is one thing I have learned about myself in my own Autist journey that has also been supported by the clients I have been working with, it's this: doctor's appointments are exhausting. I know I struggle to make appointments for myself, even when I know I need them, and getting through the appointment successfully is typically hit-or-miss....
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Aug 21, 2023, 10:30:00 AM
This is the second in a series of blogs looking at Autism in women when they experiences of pregnancy, the first of which focused on the process of becoming pregnant and how autists may experience struggles that are different and/or more intense than allistic folks due to the differences in their neurotype. This blog is going to focus specifically...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Aug 3, 2023, 2:00:00 PM
Surprise, surprise - another autistic women blog for you this month! I'm nothing if not honest when I say that this has been my special interest. And my honesty also shows up (sometimes brutally) when I talk about becoming and being pregnant. Much like my last few blogs, I had always considered these two topics (pregnancy and autism) separately,...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Jul 6, 2023, 5:02:23 PM
I'm here to propose what I believe to be the Neurodivergent Song of the Summer for 2023, and I'd love to get you on board. If you aren't familiar with the artist AURORA, she is a Norwegian singer and songwriter whose voice you might recognize most from Disney's Frozen II, as the mysterious spirit singing to Elsa. She has had three albums, each of...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Jun 14, 2023, 8:00:00 AM
In the online communities I am a part of, there has been an increase in the conversations happening related to growing up in the church as an autist. For my entire adulthood, I have been actively processing the experiences I had in the church growing up, the experiences I now attribute to my autistic traits, and my sense of self - but always...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: May 24, 2023, 2:14:31 PM
Folks who know me are well aware (and dare I say, tickled) at the way I am able to walk a very fine line between being rigidly rule-governed and, at the same time, aggressively rebellious (thank you, autism). These Autistic traits in adults are common. I think this is one reason that I find myself being drawn to and working so well with clients...
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Whitney Storey, MS, LPC, ASDCS: Apr 24, 2023, 2:39:20 PM
If you have had a conversation with me in the last year or so, odds are I have brought up neurodivergence. (Cue the eye rolling and the groans from my friends and family.) I have been really diving into the neurodivergence world since I started to identify my own neurodivergent traits, and since then you could say that neurodivergence broadly and...
