Unmasking My Neurodivergence: The Invisible Weight of My Neurotypical Mask and the End of a War With Myself – An AuDHD Late-Diagnosis Story – When “Try Harder” Doesn’t Work Continue reading My Best Was Never Enough – I Was Called Lazy When I Was Trying My Hardest.
My Battery Was Draining Faster Than It Could Charge. My Needs Weren’t the Problem. Ignoring Them Was. When I was diagnosed Autistic, more than 9 years ago now, I was at a low point in my life. I was in … Continue reading The Autistic Burnout That Led Me Home to Myself: The Life I Built Was a Prison. My Autism Diagnosis Handed Me the Key.
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.
Continue reading “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
While those in power have attempted to frame finding a cause of Autism (and eliminating it) as a public health goal, for many Autistic People, this type of rhetoric is received as a profound existential threat.
This language is part of a broader pattern where top officials have spoken about Autism (falsely) as a “preventable disease”, focusing efforts on finding a “cause“ and Autism as something to eliminate or prevent (rather than focusing on supporting the needs of existing Autistic People). Continue reading The Real-World Impact of Eliminationist Rhetoric on Autistic People
In recent months, the Trump Regime’s “Make America Healthy Again“ (MAHA) movement’s main conversation around Autism and Autistic People has been about finding what causes us to be Autistic and how to “cure Autism,” or how to “prevent“ future Autism (how to stop more Autistic People from being born). Continue reading Beyond the “Cause”: What the Autistic Community Actually Needs
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.
For me, (now) growth is learning to work with my Autistic (and multiply NeuroDivergent) mind (instead of against it) and treating my brain like a friend and partner (instead of an adversary). This (radical self-acceptance for even my struggles) has been key to my success, but parents who get stuck “battling Autism” (battling their kid’s minds like I was locked in battle with my own mind for years) are on a very different path than I am on now (battling against Autism instead of collaborating with it). Continue reading The Box of Shame Almost Crushed Me but Autistic Pride Was My Escape – The Dangerous Trap of “Battling Autism” (And How It Nearly Killed Me)
Physically Present, Mentally Gone: Pine-Scented Souls & Resets – Finding Clarity in the Wild
Continue reading Does Your Soul Have a Reset Button? Mine’s Hidden Deep in the Woods.
Being Treated Like I’m “The Problem” Instead of Receiving the Empathy and Support I Need to Overcome My Obstacles
Continue reading From ‘Problem’ to Person: Humanizing NeuroDivergent Experiences an Autistic ADHD (AuDHD) Perspective
What exactly is sensory processing? One might (falsely) think that every human on this earth experiences the world in the same way, that we all experience the sun’s brightness the same, or the level of sounds in the room the … Continue reading Autism NeuroDivergence & Sensory Processing – My Personal AuDHD (Autistic and ADHD) Experience
