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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2020

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Different… Not Less: Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger’s, and ADHD (Revised & Updated)

Temple’s primary mission is to help people with ASD and ADHD tap into their hidden abilities. Temple chose contributors from a wide variety of skill sets to show how this can be done. Each individual tells their own story, in their own words, about their lives.

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Temple Grandin
2020
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Thriving at the Edge of Chaos: Making ADHD a Superpower in College and Career

Through personal experience, case studies, research, and story, the author explains the missing skill sets that lead people with ADHD to fail in post-secondary education settings like college and training – and later, in the workplace. In a concise, readable, and entertaining way Dr.

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Jon L. Thomas
2025
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The ASD Independence Workbook: Transition Skills for Teens and Young Adults with Autism

The ASD Independence Workbook offers powerful skills to help teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) successfully navigate the skills required for daily living and integration into their communities.

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Francis Tabone
2025
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum | Dr. Temple Grandin | Talks at Google

Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show us which anomalies might explain common symptoms.

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Temple Grandin
2014
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The World Needs All Kinds of Minds | Temple Grandin

Autism activist Temple Grandin talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss.

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Temple Grandin
2010
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Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum

International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.

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Temple Grandin, Debra Moore
2025
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AD/HD and the College Student: The Everything Guide to Your Most Urgent Questions

Whether you are looking for information or facing an urgent situation, AD/HD and the College Student provides answers to your most pressing questions. Organized in a question-and-answer format, this guide is loaded with helpful information, practical tips, and resources.

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Patricia O. Quinn
2012
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Parties, Dorms and Social Norms: A Crash Course in Safe Living for Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum

The late teens and twenties are exciting times, but filled with potential pitfalls as young people navigate the transition into independent adult life.

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Lisa Meeks, Tracy Loye Masterson
2025
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Temple Grandin | The Life Autistic

Temple Grandin was nonverbal until the age of four. Today, she is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and one of the leading authorities on livestock facility design, as well as an autism awareness advocate.

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Temple Grandin
2020
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s

In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It’s true.

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Jennifer Mcilwee Myers, Temple Grandin
2025
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