Instructions For Existing In Public While Overstimulated

Instructions For Existing In Public While Overstimulated

Public is a sensory event.

This small survival manual was created for anyone who has ever sat in a parking lot psyching themselves up to enter a grocery store, hidden in a bathroom during a social event, or felt their nervous system slowly dissolve beneath fluorescent lights and too many overlapping conversations.

Instructions For Existing In Public While Overstimulated is a poetic field guide for surviving public life while autistic, ADHD, anxious, sensory-sensitive, burned out, overwhelmed, or simply profoundly human.

Inside you’ll find:
• sensory survival strategies
• exit scripts
• public regulation tools
• nervous system support ideas
• practical grounding techniques
• permission to stop forcing yourself to “push through”

Written in concise, emotionally resonant field-guide style, this zine is designed to feel like a compassionate older sibling handing you a survival manual in the food court.

Existing in public while overstimulated is skilled labor.

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