The Autistic Innovator

These are my Heart Chew Necklaces. I designed every part of this chew pendant myself. The thin structure, flexibility, specific type of texture, where the necklace string loops, the 2 rich lipstick type of colors.

The silicone manufacturer tried to talk me out of the custom adjustable necklace strings I wanted, but I said it has to be adjustable I will accept nothing else. They made it happen for me.

Half a year and thousands of dollars later, the Heart Chew Necklace was finished being manufactured the right way.

I wanted to create something for the most extreme chewers, because I couldn’t source anything strong enough, so I did my best to create that.

Before I made any claims of durability I sent the Heart Chew Necklace to someone who is one of the most extreme chewers, and asked her to aggressively abuse test it to see how long it would last. Despite her best efforts to chew through it over months, the Heart Chew pendant remains fully in tact.

All those incredibly detailed designs, that can’t be made with silicone. Silicone can only make raised tactile texture, smooth, or indented texture, and that’s it.

Nothing I can do about it, except keep selling only chew necklaces made the right way and bulk purchased from the silicone manufacturers who make them.

If you see a metallic color chew, that’s toxic paint from 3D printing.

Thin outline chews are impossible to make with silicone.

AI hallucination products in the chew industry is half the industry.

My Heart Chew Necklaces I designed myself for hard chewers. I finally got the colors accurate, and with a film art style.

📢Urgent PSA for autistics/ADHD/neurodivergents:

I've seen so many of these 2 types of chew necklaces and chew sticks. Do NOT chew on these. They are extremely unsafe.

Hollow Chews:

Anything hollow do not chew! Hollow is flexible with no resistance in the middle, and can break extremely fast, and the pieces are a high risk for choking.

Silicone Bead Necklaces:

The beads are baby teething beads, they are not meant for chewing. They are small and those pieces will break in half and cause choking. The FDA found the teething beads pose a significant threat to the lives of infants and toddlers, so adults should NOT chew those beads.

Age limit: Children 5 years old and younger should NOT chew on chew necklaces. If a pendant or stick cracks, the small child might not know the pendant has become unsafe to chew. The necklace string is also a major risk for a child 5 years old and younger.

If any chewelry cracks, breaks, or sheds pieces of silicone, do NOT keep chewing on it. Those pieces could cause you to choke.

Ex: Last night I told her "I miss you sleeping above my head." When I said "I miss you" she perked up like she understood me. 20 minutes later she comes to bed for the 1st time in 5 days and sleeps above my head all night.

When we get judged harshly by others, and simply existing is hard, it becomes easier to fall into this self-hatred.

impulse control issues + inability to force yourself to do anything + drained by no ability to function

Lots of walking pass a mess unable to make yourself clean it, then blame yourself for it.

Distracted, can't focus enough to do fun things and/or take care of yourself.

Forgetting everything. So burned out you can't remember important things + made worse by ADHD.

Constant feelings of self-shame because we can't seem to make ourselves clean, remember things, focus, etc., like it's somehow our fault, even though we can't control it, and we are so burned out we just don't have the energy for anything.

Falling into bad habits that give us a little rush of dopamine because for a moment it makes us feel better.

For a moment, we might feel a little better from the dopamine rush, and get hope that maybe we will get out of autistic burnout.

Not knowing how long burnout lasts + wondering how long will it be before we can get an ADHD assessment, so the psychiatrist can prescribe us ADHD meds. Left to wait and struggle while waiting.

Autism is like: I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING there is to know about Bettas first!

My AuDHD brain is reading a book about Betta fish care and buying everything the book says to buy for a Betta.