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All posts in this series reference working through DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition , and all quotes come from that book unless otherwise specified. This blog post continues to chronicle my takeaways from the Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills section of my DBT workbook. Parts of this section either did not work for my autism or my agnosticism, but on the whole, I found it helpful. Dialectics The next section of interpersonal effectiveness skills is dialectics. Dialectics are all about balancing opposites. This has spiritual applications noted in the book (talk of the universe, etc.), but that doesn't work very well for me with trauma and psychosis surrounding spiritual things. However, dialectics can also help us see both sides of a situation, embrace change in our lives, be aware of our connection to others, and see that we are both impacted by and impacters on our environments. The book then lists some beliefs that are dialectics, and a few w...

All posts in this series reference working through DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition , and all quotes come from that book unless otherwise specified. This blog post continues to chronicle my takeaways from the Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills section of my DBT workbook. Parts of this section felt inaccessible to me as an autistic person or needed to be expanded upon or altered slightly to accommodate my autism, but the majority of the material was still helpful to me. Building Relationships and Ending Destructive Ones: Making Friends, An Overview: I don't know about this section. I don't have a lot of trouble making and keeping friends, but my approach is certainly unconventional and quirky. I'm just my unconventional, very autistic, quirky self, right from minute one. I do the other things, like getting to know the person, talking to them, etc., but if they don't want to be friends with me when I'm not masking as non-autistic,...