My Autistic Experience With Eye-Contact: I don’t need to look at you to speak to you (or hear you) Growing up, especially in school, I was often scolded for “not paying attention” (regardless of whether I was actually paying attention … Continue reading My Autistic Experience With Eye Contact and Having My AuDHD Traits Treated Behaviorally In School
Learning how to break free from harmful patterns to build healthier, happier connections.
Continue reading The Unseen Legacy: How Childhood Relationships Affect Our Adult Lives
It was difficult for me to “go along” with what they taught in Sunday school, and when they told us people who “don’t know God go to hell,” I took it literally.
Continue reading The Child Abuse People Don’t Talk About: Religious Indoctrination – The Trauma of Childhood Brainwashing
I am a 37-year-old Autistic Adult who has fairly intense sensory sensitivities (that can trigger disorientation, vertigo, migraines, nausea, and other stomach problems). However, I did not understand this crucial fact about myself for most of my life.
One might ask, “If things were so bad, why wasn’t your Autism identified earlier?”
When I was first diagnosed Autistic (more than seven years ago now), I had the same question, though now I know the answer -it was noticed and mislabeled. Continue reading From Shame to Self-Discovery: My Journey with Autism, Sensory Overload, the Pain of Behaviorism, and the Relief in Unexpected Places
Because some people might genuinely want to know my stance, I’m creating an “ABA/NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy Master Post”. Please feel free to share this resource if you find it relevant.
Continue reading NeuroDivergent Rebel’s NeuroDivergent Conversion Therapy and ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) Master Post
We know we are different. Before I knew I was in NeuroDivergent, my labels were: Stubborn, “Lazy, Rebellions, Difficult, Stupid, Flake, dumb.” Now, those have been replaced with Autistic and ADHD.
Continue reading Should I tell my child they are NeuroDivergent?
Growing up, especially in school, I was often scolded for “not paying attention” (regardless of whether I was actually paying attention or not). Continue reading My Autistic Experience With Eye-Contact: I don’t need to look at you to speak to you (or hear you)
People dropping in on this part of the story (today) often fail to recognize how much work it has taken to get to where we are now. It’s like skipping to page 100 in a book.
Continue reading Autistic Origin Stories: Lyric Rivera, and the NeuroDivergent Rebel Blog
We live in a society where people are expected to follow the dominant social and hierarchal norms, and those who cannot fall in line (or refuse to) are often mocked, scolded, medicalized, dehumanized, and punished for their inability to blend in. Continue reading Human Binaries: NeuroDivergent and Queer – Coloring Outside the Lines Will Be Punished
Parents are desperate to receive ABA for their children because they’ve been told its the only thing that will help, and providers claim that autistic kids who don’t have ABA won’t able to enter mainstream schools, and eventually may never be autonomous without ABA, these claims are made without evidence.
