Enhance Abilities

17/10/2026

Understanding Dysautonomia: What Are the Different Types? 🫀🧠✨

​Dysautonomia isn't a single condition, it’s an umbrella term for conditions caused by a malfunction in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which controls everything your body does automatically (like heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and temperature regulation).
​Because stretchy connective tissue can affect blood vessel tone and blood volume, dysautonomia frequently co-occurs alongside hypermobility syndromes, such as hEDS, and HSD.

​Here is a quick breakdown of the primary forms of dysautonomia:

​💓 Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS):
The most well-known form. When moving from lying to standing, blood pools in the lower body. To keep oxygen reaching the brain, the ANS triggers an abnormally high jump in heart rate (often accompanied by dizziness, fatigue, and brain fog) without a persistent drop in blood pressure.

​🩸 Neurocardiogenic Syncope (NCS) / Vasovagal Syncope:
The most common form of dysautonomia. It causes sudden drops in heart rate and blood pressure when standing, standing for long periods, or in response to triggers (like heat or stress), leading to lightheadedness or fainting.

​📉 Orthostatic Hypotension (OH):
A significant and sustained drop in blood pressure upon standing, leading to dizziness, blurred vision, or fainting, because the body struggles to pump blood upward against gravity.

​⚖️ Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia (IST):
Characterised by an unexplained high resting heart rate (over 100 bpm) or an exaggerated spike with minimal physical effort, regardless of posture.

​🌡️ Pure Autonomic Failure (PAF) & Multiple System Atrophy (MSA):
Rarer, progressive neurological disorders that cause widespread failure of autonomic functions, including severe orthostatic hypotension and temperature regulation issues.

​Whether you experience occasional dizzy spells or manage daily POTS symptoms, understanding your specific autonomic pattern helps in finding the right mix of fluid/salt protocols, compression wear, and nervous system support!

​💬 Which form of dysautonomia or orthostatic intolerance forms part of your journey? Let us know in the comments below! 👇

​🔗 Learn more about , the types and so much more from our friends over at POTS UK 💜
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- TeamHMSA

13/10/2026

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12/10/2026

Inspired by the Wheel of Power and Privilege by Sylvia Duckworth, I created the Wheel of Neuronormativity to illustrate the different ways that individuals experience proximity to neuronormativity.

At the centre are experiences and ways of functioning that are more closely aligned with neuronormative expectations and towards the outer edges are experiences that diverge further from these expectations.

Someone might experience relatively few barriers in how they communicate but encounter significant barriers because of how they process sensory information.

Someone might align with dominant expectations around attention but diverge from expectations surrounding emotional expression or altered states.

Someone might diverge from neuronormativity in some ways but comfortably and sustainably align with neuronormative expectations in other ways.

This is not to suggest that everyone is neurodivergent.

It just means that proximity to neuronormativity is complex and we need to have more conversations about how people’s ways of functioning are interpreted, accommodated, rewarded or punished within particular social and institutional contexts.

Two people might both be neurodivergent but encounter very different consequences depending on how they diverge from neuronormativity.

Likewise, someone who occupies a relatively privileged position within neuronormativity might diverge from particular expectations without experiencing the broader patterns of marginalisation associated with neurodivergence.

The purpose of the Wheel of Neuronormativity is to make visible the multiple dimensions through which neuronormativity operates, showing how individuals can experience varying degrees of advantages and disadvantages depending on their proximity to different neuronormative expectations and how they’re interpreted.

*this is a working model that is still being developed and refined, it is not a fixed or exhaustive representation of neuronormativity*

11/10/2026

Tomorrow is Key Word Sign Awareness Day! 🙌

We'd love to see your KWS.

Show us one little piece of Key Word Sign in your everyday life.

- A photo
- A favourite sign
- A short video
- A story
- An activity
- A moment that mattered

Or tell us:

Where do you use Key Word Sign and what difference does it make?

Tomorrow, let's fill our community with Key Word Sign.

09/10/2026

Following on from the success of our "Inclusion Dance", we've created a companion "Understanding Inclusion" series. Tools that take big concepts such as Inclusion and explain it in visuals and language that children can understand. A fantastic companion when discussing diversity, belonging, disability inclusion, culture, fairness and respect with children.
Today we launch our “The Included Child” poster.
This and the complete “Understanding Inclusion” poster set available digitally worldwide via our online store.
The Inclusion Garden, The Inclusion Rainbow, The Inclusion Quilt….just a few of the companion concepts in this series.
Check them out.
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https://www.diversitykids.com.au/store/p291/Understanding_Inclusion_Series_-_Poster_Set.html #/

09/10/2026

It's illegal to discriminate against someone because of a protected characteristic.

Disability is one of nine characteristics in the .

Read our guide to disability discrimination: https://ow.ly/NRV250ZVrlK

08/10/2026

04/10/2026

The reality of living with chronic illness ☁️

🖤 What people think chronic illness is: being sick

🖤 What living with chronic illness actually involves:

☁️ Managing symptoms every day
☁️ Feeling isolated from others
☁️ Constantly advocating for yourself
☁️ Making plans around your energy and symptoms
☁️ Grieving parts of the life you had or expected
☁️ Navigating a complicated healthcare system
☁️ Constantly adapting to what your body needs
☁️ Fighting to be understood
☁️ Managing flare-ups, pain, and fatigue

02/10/2026

Sometimes the voice in your head is far harsher than anything you would ever say to someone you care about.

“I can’t do this.”
“I’m not good enough.”
“I messed everything up.”
“Everyone else is doing better than me.”
“I should be able to handle this.”

When thoughts like these show up again and again, they can start to feel like facts. But a thought is not automatically the truth.
Changing the way you talk to yourself does not mean pretending everything is fine or forcing yourself to “think positive.” It means finding words that are fairer, kinder and more useful.

“I can’t do this” can become “What’s one part of this I can handle?”
“I messed up” can become “What matters is what I do next.”
“I’ll never get through this” can become “I don’t have to figure out everything today.”

Sometimes that small shift is enough to help you move from feeling stuck to taking one small step forward.

Which sentence on the poster do you most need to replace in your own head?

💜 Save this for a difficult day, or share it with someone who is far kinder to everyone else than they are to themselves.

FREE CHANGE THE WAY YOU TALK TO YOURSELF SELF-TALK POSTER

LIKE the photo and comment "TALK" and we will send you a message with a link to a free PDF of this resource.

02/10/2026

DBT Skills. Module: Interpersonal Effectiveness. Skill: Validation.