u/Broncopond

▲ 6 r/ESSAplushieshandlers+1 crossposts

Two plushies named the same thing, yes or no?

Hello, I have a fairly large collection of plushies and remember all their names. I use them for emotional support and they all have little name tags. However I got a second double tag for one plush as a backup but never used it.

I thought maybe this second tag could be used for a different plushie I got that is not yet named, essentially have two dog plushies both named Pluto. But it feels wrong, even though both plush suit the name to reuse it especially since people in my life like to know their names and it may be very confusing asking for Pluto and then not knowing which one. Should I have two Plutos or just get the unnamed one its own name and tag?

Anyone else have multiple plush with same names or is it better to have each unique? Seeking advice

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u/Broncopond — 9 days ago
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Please remove if not allowed.

I’m an autistic adult who struggled whole life with low speech output, sometimes struggle to speak at all, or know what I want to say and can’t say it. I sometimes use AAC for things like phone calls. I wish to find communication easier in whatever way possible and never be stuck without a voice.

I’m looking for a speech-language pathologist in Toronto who:

-supports use of AAC as an appropriate tool and not something to be overcome

-doesn’t use ABA approaches

-doesn’t pressure eye contact or “normal” social behaviors

-has experience with autistic adults (not just children)

If you have any advice at all I’d love to hear it. Specific clinic or therapist names would help a lot. Never been in speech therapy before.

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u/Broncopond — 16 days ago

I’m an autistic adult with low speech output, sometimes struggle to speak at all, or know what I want to say and can’t say it. I sometimes use AAC for things like phone calls. I wish to find communication easier in whatever way possible and never be stuck without a voice.

I’m looking for a speech-language pathologist in Toronto who:

-supports use of AAC as an appropriate tool and not something to be overcome

-doesn’t use ABA approaches

-doesn’t pressure eye contact or “normal” social behaviors

-has experience with autistic adults (not just children)

If you had a good (or bad) experience I’d love to hear it. Specific clinic or therapist names would help a lot.

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u/Broncopond — 16 days ago
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I’m an autistic adult with low speech output, sometimes struggle to speak at all, or know what I want to say and can’t say it. I sometimes use AAC for things like phone calls. I wish to find communication easier in whatever way possible and never be stuck without a voice.

I’m looking for a speech-language pathologist in Toronto who:

-supports use of AAC as an appropriate tool and not something to be overcome

-doesn’t use ABA approaches

-doesn’t pressure eye contact or “normal” social behaviors

-has experience with autistic adults (not just children)

If you had a good (or bad) experience I’d love to hear it. Specific clinic or therapist names would help a lot.

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u/Broncopond — 16 days ago

I’m an autistic adult (l2) with low speech output, sometimes struggle to speak at all, or know what I want to say and can’t say it. I sometimes use AAC for things like phone calls. I wish to find communication easier in whatever way possible and never be stuck without a voice.

I’m looking for a speech-language pathologist in Toronto who:

-supports use of AAC as an appropriate tool and not something to be overcome

-doesn’t use ABA approaches

-doesn’t pressure eye contact or “normal” social behaviors

-has experience with autistic adults (not just children)

If you had a good (or bad) experience I’d love to hear it. Specific clinic or therapist names would help a lot.

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u/Broncopond — 16 days ago

I’m an autistic adult with low speech output, sometimes struggle to speak at all, or know what I want to say and can’t say it. I sometimes use AAC for things like phone calls. I wish to find communication easier in whatever way possible and never be stuck without a voice.

I’m looking for a speech-language pathologist in Toronto who:

-supports use of AAC as an appropriate tool and not something to be overcome

-doesn’t use ABA approaches

-doesn’t pressure eye contact or “normal” social behaviors

-has experience with autistic adults (not just children)

If you had a good (or bad) experience I’d love to hear it. Specific clinic or therapist names would help a lot.

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u/Broncopond — 16 days ago

I’m an autistic adult with low speech output, sometimes struggle to speak at all, or know what I want to say and can’t say it. I sometimes use AAC for things like phone calls. I wish to find communication easier in whatever way possible and never be stuck without a voice.

I’m looking for a speech-language pathologist in Toronto who:

-supports use of AAC as an appropriate tool and not something to be overcome

-doesn’t use ABA approaches

-doesn’t pressure eye contact or “normal” social behaviors

-has experience with autistic adults (not just children)

If you had a good (or bad) experience I’d love to hear it. Specific clinic or therapist names would help a lot.

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u/Broncopond — 16 days ago

I have a very old leopard, I used the stock photo cause all photos i took were blurry.

I would love name ideas!

I’m open to any themes, but I prefer fantasy or jungle related over human names.

u/Broncopond — 17 days ago

Pic of my plushies fur for attention :)

Hello, I see everyone with their fabulous looking plushies, and strong bonds, and I want advice for my situation.

I have huge collection of plushies, majority from childhood, some newer. After going through them, I narrowed down the helpful ones (decent amount of pressure to hug, good texture, shape that makes me happy) and I’m left with about 20 good candidates. I sort of hyperfixated on making them all perfect gear, they all look great, they all work well.

The trouble is having so many makes the choice overload of choosing one very intense, and I feel like I can’t bond very well with whatever current one I’m enjoying cause my mind is always comparing them, and thinking about the others that I’m not using, and feels like sharing the bond between them all dispersed it somehow. I attach deeply to them I have large special interest in plushies, and having to choose is uncomfortable and even when I tried to put one out and the rest in the box, I couldn’t forget about them and remembered all the efforts I put into individualizing each of the 20, including custom engraved name tags, vests, etc.

I would really like to bond to one. It’s just that it is hard to do so, having so many, because all of them are equally nice and hard to compare. I also find that I have slight fear of attachment, while I love them all I’m afraid to commit in case I can’t take them somewhere like work for example and brain tell me choose a pocket size but that isn’t as comforting.

My brain wants consistency, sameness, a strong bond, not overwhelming choice, but somehow afraid to commit, and fear of unknown (situations it not acceptable, should have picked smaller, or inverse of needing more comfort and small one not helping enough) making it hard to choose, plus guilt of having so many great options that are all special to me and hard to decide the one from this twenty member Essa squad, but too many to bond with making overthinking cycle bad.

This issue particularly spiraled when I had one emotional support palm pal size plushie that I took everywhere for a month and then to the zoo, got overwhelmed there really badly, and crushing this teeeny plush in a hug did absolutely nothing and I had to buy a 12 inch plushie from gift shop to survive or leave immediately, and after this the fear of what works and what doesnt and not want to be without necessary support, made me arrange a 20 member collection in my determination to not have this happen again. But in reality i just want one perfect one.

Also huggable size plushies are the only thing that helps me (approximately 8 to 12 inches ideally), I have service animal but service animal has many bad days of not wanting to leave home, so plushies it is, they don’t have bad days and reliable, just need help with deciding on one.

Please be kind, I’ve been struggling with this for weeks on how to choose, and thank you so much for all advice, sorry for long text.

u/Broncopond — 22 days ago