Late Diagnosed/Identified: A mini series, episode one
We are opening up about our own experiences, sharing the good, bad, and ugly of it all. Continue reading Late Diagnosed/Identified: A mini series, episode one
Category: Masking / Passing
My New Book (‘The Weight of Normal’) Is Out NOW – And I’m Nervous…
Why I Self-Published My Most Raw Book Yet – How Our Community Can Launch a Book: The Story Behind “The Weight of Normal”
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“You’re Too Smart to Be Acting This Way” & The Lifelong Harm of Neuronormative Expectations: What My ‘Gifted’ Label Actually Cost Me – A Late-Diagnosed Autistic Perspective
My life with late-identified autism, healing from masking and forced assimilation, and learning about the neurodiversity paradigm, after being diagnosed Autistic at the age of 29.
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New Book! NeuroDivergent Rebel’s The Weight of Normal – Preorder NOW (Available 12/16/25)
The Weight of Normal is a raw and powerful memoir of survival and awakening. It is an unflinching indictment of the systems of forced assimilation—the NeuroDivergent and Queer conversion “therapies”—that teach self-abandonment as a virtue. Continue reading New Book! NeuroDivergent Rebel’s The Weight of Normal – Preorder NOW (Available 12/16/25)
“Let Them Choke”: My Rejection of Other People’s Comfort. I Refuse to Be a Bite-Sized Identity. – My Identity Isn’t a Monolith. Stop Asking It to Be & Why I Won’t ‘Stick to Neurodiversity’
The Impossible Weight of Assimilation for People Who Can’t Blend in – Assimilation Almost Killed Me. Authenticity Saved Me. – For Me Assimilation Was a Slow Death. This Is My Rebellion.
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The Mask That Almost Killed Me: On NeuroDivergence, Forced Assimilation, and Self-Abandonment
I Was Trained to Abandon Myself: Behavioral Compliance Made Me a Target for Abuse – Compliance is Not Competence & How Forced Assimilation Fails NeuroDivergent People
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Invisible & Drowning: My Negativity Was a Cry for Help – Toxic Positivity Kills: My Year of Being Told to Smile While Drowning
When Your Rock Bottom Goes Unseen – Why Expressing Pain and Discomfort is a Disruption to the Status Quo and What Happens When You Can’t Fake Being Fine
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Un-fucking My Mind – An Autistic Awakening in a Fucked-Up World.
Learning to Feel After a Lifetime of Numbness: The Beautiful Pain of Feeling Again & My NeuroDivergent Rebirth Continue reading Un-fucking My Mind – An Autistic Awakening in a Fucked-Up World.
Understanding Autistic Overloads: Causes, Prevention, and Recovery
Would non-autistic people be overwhelmed more frequently (if they lived in a world not designed for them)? What changes could we make to our society to make it more inclusive for everyone? Continue reading Understanding Autistic Overloads: Causes, Prevention, and Recovery
Shutdowns and Unspoken Pain: The Weight of Repressed Emotions and Unmet Needs
Isolated. Hurting… Ashamed. I’ve spoken about the reasons I feel that Autistic overloads are not that different from overloads in non-autistics in the past (on multiple occasions). Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much more I’ve been asked to “put away” … Continue reading Shutdowns and Unspoken Pain: The Weight of Repressed Emotions and Unmet Needs