Support can feel more usable when you know what choices are available. This page helps you tell a clinician or trusted support person what helps you participate and what you want them to ask before doing.
Name preferences without explaining everything
You can state a preference without sharing the experience behind it. Examples include keeping the door in view, receiving a description before an exercise, choosing whether to close your eyes, or being asked before someone moves closer. Preferences can change.
Agree on a way to pause
Choose a word, gesture, written message, or other signal that means pause. Decide what should happen next, such as quiet, an explanation, a different activity, or ending the exercise. The plan works best when the other person confirms what they can provide.
Reflection prompts
Use these questions in conversation, on paper, or in the downloaded PDF. You may adapt or skip a prompt.
- Things that help me participate comfortably
- Things I want someone to ask permission for first
- My pause signal and what I would like to happen next
- What we agreed on and when we will review it