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
Building Your Foundation: Announcing an Empowering Workbook for Autistic Adults Continue reading You Asked, We Listened: the Adult Version of ‘Autism, Identity & Me’ is officially in the works!
Super cool thing happened during my break. Recently, Rebecca Duffus and I were asked to talk about our book Autism, Identity, and Me on the Tilt Parenting Podcast. The episode is up now on YouTube if you would like to … Continue reading Rebecca Duffus & Lyric Rivera on Autistic Identity – Full-Tilt Parenting Podcast
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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)
My Roaming Sensory Bubble: How an RV Makes Travel Possible for Me & Why I Had to Say No to My First Keynote in Years
Continue reading We Travel with Our Home: An Autistic Escape from Overwhelm
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.
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Two books, one goal: Supporting Autistic young people in affirming their Autistic Identities and learning about themselves. Continue reading Autism, Identity and Me – A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+ By Rebecca Duffus & Lyric Rivera
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
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.
Continue reading “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’
