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7 Tips for Autistic Parents Who Are Dealing With Sensory Overload

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If someone would have asked me to rate my anxiety and excitement on a scale of 1-10 when I found out I was going to be a dad in May of 2020, I would have said, “Are you kidding me?

I’m like a 25 on excitement and a 50 on anxiety.” Before then, I had received so many negative messages, I never believed I could be a good parent because I was autistic.

This played into my anxiety being a 50 mixed with good old new parent anxiety in general. Now almost two years later, I know this isn’t true.

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