How To Help Stop Autism Meltdowns

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A meltdown also works in three stages. 1. Panic; 2. Rage and 3. Recovery. It's all avoiding stage two of the "Meltdown Cycle".

Meltdowns feels like a true primal state, so honest, I feel like that bit of information is very important when considering how to aproach meltdowns in the first place.

When I have a meltdown, I forget to breathe, because stop the sounds is the most important thing, I stim a lot, hit my ears, my head to make it stop. Thanks to your advices, I will tell people around me to help me concentrate on breathing, inhale and exhale with them. I often forget that family, friends, medical people don't know and want to know how to react, so explain helps them to.

I am a karate instructor and one of my students had a meltdown during sparring yesterday. I tried to calm down the situation but it didn't work. This video definitely helped. Thank you.

I am autistic and having a meltdown right now and I come back to this video when I need to remember what to do. I’ve learned how to prevent these but sometimes there’s nothing I can do, the best thing to do is to go into a dark room without other people and little sensory input. Meltdowns are hard, thank you for making this video. It helps when people know what to do

I remember having a meltdown during my grad. trip in senior high. I was drunk, socializing with a friend and someone else I didn't really like. This other person was being really passive-aggressive, and suddenly there was commotion outside in the hallway.... and I just burst into tears out of nowhere and started shouting that "I don't wanna be here, get me away from here!", etc. My workout buddy (with whom I shared a room, and who had returned just minutes before my meltdown started) just grabbed my arm and pulled me with him out of the room, past those people and back to our room, where he left me alone. This was years before I realized I'm autistic. One of my friends who witnessed this actually brought it up when I mentioned to her that I'm being assessed. It suddenly "made sense" to her. And, thinking about it now, I honestly think my workout buddy handled it in a very good way given the circumstances.

People need to know the differance between a tantrum and a meltdown....

You do breathe aggressively when you are experiencing a meltdown.

I work with an autistic child and I wanted to understand what he was going through so I can help him and a lot of what you said is similar to what he seems to be going through. And now I can help him even more so thank you!

"...cows going "moo" as they pass by my head." Keep it going sir ;)

Im a father of two autistic boys 13 and 10 both non verbal an we experience melt downs here and there an its good to know a little more on what they're experiencing an how to help them . thank you Andy god bless

Im so sad that it has taken me so long to realise that my adult daughter is autistic. I had no idea when she was little and I handled it completely wrong for years. She became a person who could become very violent durng a meltdown ( drugs made it worse)This split our family up. She is now pregnant and this weekend she had another meltdown and my other daughter had a huge panic attack ( cecause of what has happened before) . I feel compassion for her but we cant continue to live like this

Two years ago I had a pretty bad melt down which lead to me crying and swearing, as the person with me kept wanting me to sit down and do applications for a job and wasn't letting me do anything with gardening or giving me space to calm myself down . I hated it and want it to never happen again as it was scary as I usually have control of myself.

Great video 👍 it can be good to know that people are different and need different things. You say "don't touch someone having a meltdown", while I really need someone to touch me! I feel that I'm loosing control and I'm panic because of it, if someone physically grab me and take control over me I calm down instantly. So.. we are all different and need different things 🙂

I have autism meltdowns often and I'm normally very tired from crying about it but my friends and girlfriend are there to help me through it all

Literally the first person who actually helped. Thank you

I had a melt down today. The worst I’ve had in awhile. And my husband didn’t understand. But he just let me go through it. It was all over cues that I had missed that led to it. I didn’t understand what he had been trying to get across for awhile and I couldn’t handle it anymore and just exploded.

Your videos deserve so much more! My boyfriend was having a hard time to explain to me what to do, so he sent me your video. I'm just so grateful!

What a great video, Andy executed this so well, everything made sense and the thought line connecting well.