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myinnerchildhood · 5 months

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What's in my bag(s)?

With my first therapy appointment coming up tomorrow, I decided to pack two small bags with me (since my usual Large backpack might be a little strange to take with me). One is my sensory/"calm down" bag, and the other is my food and drink bag.

My "Calm Down" Bag has these items in it:

Sunglasses (wraparound)

Sleep mask (100% blackout)

Loop Quiet Earplugs

Bone Conduction Headphones

Apple AirPod Pros 2

Wired earbuds

Skullcandy Bluetooth earbuds

Fidget toys (will go into more detail later about these!)

3DS

Face mask/cover

Gloves

Beanie hat

MP3 Player

Phone

Mini communication Cards and Wet-Erase notebook (+ pen)

Why so many earbuds?

🌟 The ones I almost always use are my Apple Airpods, because of the transparent mode and noise canceling. These are my perfect earbuds, but the tracking doesn't work because I don't have an iPhone.

🌟 My Skullcandy Bluetooth earbuds are great quality standard Bluetooth earbuds that have a functional tracker (Tile). These are great when I don't use my airpods, and because I keep these in the same zip-up pouch, I can track both of them at the same time.

🌟 My bone-conduction headphones were a gift from my roommate, and I use these at work because i can hear everything around me and I don't worry about them falling off. When I wear earplugs, I can still listen to music with these! (So when I want to have nearly complete silence, but still want to listen to music (and my airpods are dead) my loops + bone conduction headphones work great!)

🌟 My wired earbuds are here because my main MP3 player doesn't have Bluetooth functionality. (Funny, huh? I usually listen to songs I have installed on my phone, but if my phone battery is low and can't listen to music-- I have my mp3 player I can still listen to!) My phone also has an audio jack, so if my Bluetooth earbuds all ran out of batteries, I can still listen to music!

🌟 Loop Earplugs are useful when I want everything to be quiet. Sometimes, I don't even want to listen to music and I just want quiet.

For visual overstimulation, I use my sunglasses and sleep mask. Depending on how severe my overstimulation or light sensitivity is, I will pick one or the other. In all public places (excluding car rides), I always use my sunglasses. I like wearing a sleep mask in the car since I am a passenger princess.

I keep my face mask, gloves, and beanie hat in my bag because I have a lot of BFRBs. Face masks keep me from picking at my face, gloves keep me from nail biting, and my beanie keeps me from pulling out my hair when it's not shaved.

My 3DS is always in my calm down bag, because I can play just about any game I want on it. Since homebrewing it, I can play anything from Cooking Mama, to Tetris, to Tekken, to Mario Kart. I also have almost every early version of Pokémon on here!

My communication cards help me communicate my feelings and needs when I'm not able to talk. I am semi-verbal, and sometimes don't speak at all when I'm overwhelmed or upset. Sometimes what I need isn't on the cards, so I can write what I need on my notebook and wipe it off with water later.

I keep a lot of fidget toys, but my favorite ones are my Stimagz and this pretty glittery stick that reminds me of a snowglobe.

Lastly, I usually keep a Keychain plushie on my bag!

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Onto the second bag! The Snack/Drink Bag

This bag has my water bottle, favorite snack(s), drink mixes, Floss, Candied ginger, Electrolyte drink mix, a collapsible Spork (Spoon+Fork), napkins, and Anti Acids. Attached to this bag are mini trash bags I can use to put my trash in when there's not a full trashcan nearby!

Keeping a bag like this nearby has helped me remember to take better care of myself, because before this I would hardly ever eat or drink anything.

#whats in my bag #whats in my autism bag #actually autistic

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monriatitans · 8 months

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