The Autistic Experience
Like Duolingo, but for The Autistic Experience. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Internal Landscape and Navigating a Neurotypical World. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in The Autistic Experience
- Sensory processing varies independently across the eight sensory systems
- Stimming provides rhythmic input that stabilizes the nervous system
- Hypersensitivity causes sensory avoidant behaviors to mitigate overwhelm
- Suppressing stims (masking) increases cognitive load and anxiety
- Hyposensitivity leads to sensory seeking or a lack of safety awareness
- Stimming can be used to either 'up-regulate' energy or 'down-regulate' stress
- Understanding the self-regulatory function of stimming
- The sensory bucket capacity
- Cumulative sensory load
- Meltdown as neurological overflow
- Sensory processing non-uniformity
- Interoception definition
- Muted interoception consequences
- Interoception and stress
- Self-regulatory function of stimming
- Interoception consequences
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Autistic Experience the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What is the main job of 'stimming' for an autistic person's nervous system?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where The Autistic Experience takes you
Move beyond clinical definitions to understand the internal mechanics of the autistic mind, from sensory processing to the social cost of masking.
- 1
The Internal Landscape
- Sensory Profiles and Regulation
- Monotropism and Flow
- 2
Navigating a Neurotypical World
- Communication and the Double Empathy Problem
- Energy Management and Burnout
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
The Autistic Experience is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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