Hyperlexia, Handwriting Pain, and Finding Freedom in a Word Document – Typing vs. Handwriting: An Autistic Perspective on Fine Motor Skills and Working Memory #MyAutisticTruth Continue reading My Autistic Truth: My Real Voice Isn’t the One That Comes Out of My Mouth – The Accessibility of Typing: One Autistic Person’s Experience
I Spent 29 Years Trying to Be ‘Normal.’ Here’s What I Lost (and Found). Continue reading 5 Years to Crawl Out of Burnout: My AuDHD Healing Journey After a Late Diagnosis
Want to be featured in the Autism, Identity and Me workbook for adults? – Autistic adults: Submit your wisdom for our new workbook for a chance to be featured. Continue reading Call for Contributions: Quotes from Autistic Adults Wanted for New Workbook
For years, I thought I was broken. The real problem was a system that couldn’t see my Neurodivergent mind. I wasn’t a bad student. I was a Neurodivergent one.
Continue reading Was I a bad student, or was school bad for me? – What my Autism diagnosis taught me about why school failed me.
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.
I Almost Convinced Myself I Wasn’t ADHD. Then a Deadline Proved Me Wrong. What Does a Healed, Untraumatized ADHDer Look Like? I’m determined to find out.
Continue reading ADHD and Me – Is It Trauma, Autism, ADHD, or… All of the Above?: Years After Being Diagnosed, THIS YEAR I’m Finally Unpacking My ADHD Identity
Getting More Done by Committing to Less, and why I now tackle my hardest work before 9 AM… and the gentle accountability that gets me there.
Continue reading Taming the Tedious Tasks: My AuDHD-Friendly Morning Strategy
I Don’t Fight Winter Anymore. Why I’ve learned to embrace the slow, quiet months—and how it sets the stage for everything that follows.
Continue reading What Winter Teaches Me – Surviving and Thriving in the Slow Season by Harnessing the Quiet: A Strategy for Winter Creativity
Why I Self-Published My Most Raw Book Yet – How Our Community Can Launch a Book: The Story Behind “The Weight of Normal”
Continue reading My New Book (‘The Weight of Normal’) Is Out NOW – And I’m Nervous…
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
