Meltdown help/guides/videos for partners?

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My meltdowns have been more severe and more frequent lately and I am wondering if there are any helpful videos (or other formats) that could explain meltdowns and what to not do during one, for a significant other. I have come across videos on youtube (mostly about children) but there's so many, and a lot of the ones I've watched have endorsed behavior that (from my perspective) seems to make the autist feel worse. Are there any you would recommend?

*Note: I'm still working up the courage to tell him about this, but I would like to have links on-hand when I do. While I can pass for normal, during meltdowns I appear very low functioning (for lack of a better term...what's the PC term?).*

I don't have any video suggestions, but I just wanted to say you're not alone and I relate -- I too seem normal most of the time but when in meltdown I seem much more severely affected than in stress-free moments. It can come as quite a shock to someone who has only seen me "at my best" and coping.

I hope you get some suggestions about helpful videos -- I could use having some links to show someone too.

Or maybe, if there's just a collection of resources that don't follow the Autism$peaks philosophies? It's frustrating to open something, thinking it will be useful and then being struck with offensively bad info, or seeing kids who aren't hurting anyone getting restrained.

I need something like this too, also a video for doctors on how to treat meltdowns in adults!

Yes! Maybe these don't exist and need to be created? Are there are any talented videographers/ or filmmakers here that need something to create? I think it would be good if it was a team effort by Autists and a few insightful non-autistics, so that they could act as translators since the videos would be aimed at non-autistic people.