Out of Order: When Our Inner Systems Fail, Our World Frays – Why Our Nervous Systems Are More Than Just a Personal Problem
Continue reading The Age of Dysregulation: How Unregulated Emotions and Senses are Breaking Our World
Planting a Neurodivergent Mind in Neurotypical Soil. – I Wasn’t Lazy. I Was Autistic and Burnt Out. What My Autism Diagnosis Taught Me About Rest. We reside in a world that encourages self-neglect, where rest is viewed as a reward … Continue reading Rest Is Not a Reward. It’s a Right. – We Are Not Burnt Out. We Are Being Burned. – On Being Fuel, Instead of Being Fed.
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
My entire life, my memory was like Swiss cheese. Then, after working on my trauma, a switch flipped. I could finally remember my days. That’s when I knew…
Continue reading ADHD, Complex Trauma, or BOTH? – A Fog Lifted: What Happened When I Finally Stopped Dissociating
I Was Trained to Abandon Myself: Behavioral Compliance Made Me a Target for Abuse – Compliance is Not Competence & How Forced Assimilation Fails NeuroDivergent People
Continue reading The Mask That Almost Killed Me: On NeuroDivergence, Forced Assimilation, and Self-Abandonment
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
Continue reading Invisible & Drowning: My Negativity Was a Cry for Help – Toxic Positivity Kills: My Year of Being Told to Smile While Drowning
As a child, who was indoctrinated into the Christian faith, but struggled to believe what I was told “was the unquestionable truth,” I spent the first 11 years of my life terrified that I was going to hell (and was convinced that I was a bad person) because I couldn’t force myself to believe in Jesus and the Christian God (who I was told was the ONLY path to salvation and everyone who wasn’t a believer would go to hell). Continue reading Religious Indoctrination of Children Is Child Abuse: Here’s Why I Won’t Apologize for Calling Religious Indoctrination Child Abuse.
The Forbidden Feeling: Why My Anger Terrified Me (And How I Made Peace With It) – The Cost of Swallowing Coals: How I Stopped Digesting Anger & Started Living.
Continue reading Society Trained Me to Swallow My Rage. My Autistic Self Said “No More.” – “Repression = Strength” Was a Dangerous Lie I Believed (Until My Diagnosis).
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.
One key concept of the NeuroDiversity paradigm is the recognition of the diverse ways in which individuals experience and interact with the world around them. NeuroDiversity also claims that no singular ‘correct way’ of engaging with the world exists, and “no normal brain” exists, which poses the question, “If no normal brain exists”… “do NeuroTypical People exist?”
I firmly believe that the term ‘NeuroTypical’ does not represent humanity’s default state but rather a median or average that our society has been structured to accommodate (at the expense of those of us who are outliers). Continue reading Do NeuroTypical People REALLY Exist? – Preview from My Upcoming Book
