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Volume 11 Edition 2 CONTENT COLOUR/SHAPE KEY ARTICLE RECIPE Volume 11 Edition 2 CONTENT COLOUR/SHAPE KEY ARTICLE RECIPE RESOURCE ART HUMOUR PHOTOGRAPHY POETRY 19 AN OPEN LETTER - 21 Taylor Linloff 1 From the Editors Desk Mikhael's Art 22 Mikhael Siddiqui 2 How Pokemon GO has - improved my overall health 23 A little bit of me time 5 - Kaitlin Smith 25 Ashley Henneberry Meds Autistic self-care 6 Natasha Power 26 check-in 7 Eating Horses for health - 27 Casey Harris 10 Jenn Lisi I spent most of my life 11 28 My take on mental health under the guise that I - Jake Lewis - 13 30 was “normal”. Kel 14 Crisis text line written - and visual description Ha Ha's for health 15 31 Ann, Corey, and Sean Canadian and Autism Photography and Health 16 32 Nova Scotia Resources Eric Salem 17 After The Storm Lifespans series - 33 18 Rebekah Kintzinger Themes and Topics The Health Edition, COVID-19, and quarantine. Let me begin with welcoming you to Edition 2 of the 10 Edition LifeSpans Series. Thank you for your time and support of our grassroots publication. My 51st birthday was on the day that the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. But on March 6th, my last day in the office at Autism Nova Scotia, I had tasks on my new white-board all written out and ready to go. On March 9th when I met with our Video Project members, we were ready to film the next week. On March 12th when I met with the Women's Autism/Autistic Project (WA/AP), we had a feeling it would be our last time in person together for a while. It's been 3 months since then and, as I type this, life on planet earth is in a rapid state of flux and change. It feels fitting this edition be released now because health is very much on the minds of most everyone in one way or another. If you're an autistic person who does better with routine, this time has been very difficult. For others who prefer time alone and were already accustomed to accessing a social life online, not much has changed. All-in-all, this time has been very much about health in a different way for most everyone. As Canada eases to re-open there's a lot of questions and fear about what comes next. As the social conscious of many awaken and is challenged, health remains at the centre of it all. As we move towards a greater understanding of intersectionality and embrace person-first expression that isn't at the expense of others, we can learn together and remove barriers to all persons in society. The people, animals, and the planet itself need to heal. Inside these pages are articles, poems, artwork, recipes, jokes and resources that might help. 1 Autistics Aloud © Autism Nova Scotia 2020 During the summer of 2016, half of the world became obsessed with Pokemon GO. I, on the other hand, didn’t develop that obsession until 2019 despite Pokemon being my special interest. As addictive as I have found the game to be, it has had a phenomenal impact on both my physical and mental health this past year. When Pokemon GO first started, not much seemed to stand out to me about it. Sure, it had a lot of Pokemon you could collect… but it only had a quarter of the ones I grew up with. Since Pokemon GO only had the original 151 creatures that the 90's kids grew up with that summer, I felt left out as a fan born after the 90's. There were also not very many features at the time that helped keep the game from feeling too repetitive. Back then, it seemed like the only objective was to catch a species, then catch more of that same species until you can evolve one of them, rinse and repeat. To me, it didn’t capture the spirit of the DS Pokemon games I grew to love through getting lost in their complex world and mechanics. It also didn’t help that I was quite averted to exercise at the time. To me, all exercise either felt too stressful or too repetitive and did not result in any noticeable benefit. I knew that exercise was healthy, but it just didn’t feel worth it. Overall, Pokemon GO just didn’t seem like the game for me. It wasn’t until the fall of 2018 that my interest in Pokemon GO slowly started to revive. I began hearing about newly added features like trainer battles and trading, as well as batches of Pokemon introduced in the 2000's. It also slowly became more and more relevant in other Pokemon media, like the Nintendo games and the anime series. This was enough to motivate me to play a bit here and there, mainly as I walked back and forth from my local library with my mom as she played the game with me. While I recognized that this was good exercise, the routine began to feel old for me pretty fast. I felt like this exercise habit needed something more. 2 Autistics Aloud © Autism Nova Scotia 2020 During my trip to Japan in May 2019, Pokemon GO, for the first time, began to benefit me in ways beyond just my physical health. As you probably know, Japan is known for being insanely crowded. While the endless amount of Pokemon merchandise I found there was exhilarating to see, the noise and the crowdedness of the big cities didn’t please me as much to say the least. Luckily, my Pokemon exercise app also served as a sensory tool. Anytime I felt overwhelmed by all the sensory input surrounding me, I could just redirect my attention to all the creatures on my screen I have grown to love since my childhood. Pokemon has always been my go-to source of comfort when I have felt overwhelmed with anxiety, so to have it right there with me whenever I had to walk long distances or through crowded areas saved me from a lot of shutdowns. Even though Pokemon GO may not have been my favorite Pokemon game at the time, it was an easy way for me to allow my special interest to distract me from the sensory nightmare that is rush hour in Tokyo. I was also grateful to have so many more Pokemon to catch and keep me distracted than usual since I was in a bigger city with many more Poke Stops. If it weren’t for Pokemon GO, my dream trip to Japan could have led to more sensory overloads than the dream trip was worth. Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating. Japan was awesome! After I saw just how much Pokemon GO helped me with my mental health in Japan, I felt more motivated to continue playing it, especially since it had gotten much warmer outside. I continued those library walks with my mom, only this time the temperature didn’t make my hands freeze. I actually enjoyed the walks themselves to some extent rather than just the bonuses I got in Pokemon GO from those walks. After a while, however, the walks began to lose their appeal again. Even though I had access to the majority of Pokemon I grew up with by then and could bond over my special interest more with my mom, I still felt like something was missing. 3 Autistics Aloud © Autism Nova Scotia 2020 Once the fall of 2019 came around, I made a new friend in another autistic woman named Rebekah. Both of us shared a passion for Pokemon, only her interest was specifically Pokemon GO. Even though I still preferred the Nintendo Pokemon games at the time, I decided to join her on regular walks around town anyway as it still meant that we could bond over Pokemon. During these walks, she introduced me to a bunch of different mechanics that made the game more complicated than it seemed to me at first glance. She taught me about how raid battles worked and showed me how to assess a Pokemon’s battling potential. Discovering all these extra mechanics left me amazed and eager to learn more. It was like I had discovered a whole other world in what I thought was just a mediocre and overrated Pokemon spin-off. I actually felt like I was genuinely addicted to it like the hundreds of people I saw in 2016 were, but in a good way. Just when I thought Pokemon GO was basically a Fit-Bit decorated with Pokemon references, it turned out to be much more than that. It does in fact capture the spirit of what I love about Pokemon, that being its complexity and ability to get me lost in trying to build a perfect Pokemon team. Starting that fall, my Pokemon GO walks began to not just serve the purpose of exercise and very slowly filling my Pokedex. They also allowed me to make progress and become engrossed in figuring out how to create the best possible team for raid battles. I could tell from all the dreams I had that fall about Pokemon GO that this game had given me a really enjoyable hobby and project. 4 Autistics Aloud © Autism Nova Scotia 2020 Not only has Pokemon GO brought me a lot of joy over the last several months, but it also continues to benefit both my physical and mental health. This time, however, I am actually making the conscious choice to go out and exercise at least once everyday, even in temperatures below zero.
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