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Not Everyone Was My Friend in My Autistic Life
I thought everyone was a potential friend. Every adult, someone to turn to for protection. It took me years to begin understanding my father’s betrayal. At 73, I still carry that sexual assault. This is part of my autistic life.
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Autistic Me, Theo, School… and Genius, Pt 2
You’re not broken. The System is. You already know that. Here’s one autistic life giving it words… Follow my raw journey from crushing middle-school trauma to the explosive joy of self-guided learning. The education machine missed my genius. Maybe it missed yours, too.
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Every clock is a handgun in my autistic time
Every clock is a handgun in my autistic time. This is my raw, late-diagnosed autistic elder’s reckoning with deadlines, dread, hyperfocus, lost jobs… and a world built around punch clocks, not feeling. You see, time doesn’t pass for me. It feels.
Keep readingFor This Autistic Elder, School Was a F***ing Job
For this autistic as a kid, school wasn’t preparation for a job. It WAS the job: clock in, perform, conform, and carry it home. A blunt autobiographical fragment about school, work, disability, and the Man’s rules that never seem to end.
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“Maybe Genius Lies Elsewhere”: Autistic Me, Theo & School, Pt 1
A haiku got me branded a cheat. A homeless psych-dropout named Theo got me branded… maybe genius. Autistic, ADHD, and done trusting school to measure either. Frag 10 of my raw autobiography asks: what if genius never lived in a classroom at all?
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What’s the Autistic “Thing” with Eye Contact?
I can’t hold eye contact without panic, pain, and sometimes losing myself. This isn’t an autistic “glitch” to train away. It’s my lived reality, and a plea to stop demanding eye contact from autistic people.
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For This Autistic Elder, School Was a F***ing Job – #AutisticAF Out Loud
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