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Dear Autist: Forgiving Your Family? NOT a Cosmic Rule…
Forgiving abusers… as much as SOME therapists, pop psychologists, and self-help gurus insist on it…
Is NOT a Cosmic Rule.

Opinion: Autists Need Safety from Cops… Not ID Papers
We are NOT the problem.
No human services call should be delivered by a human carrying a gun.

Autism in Art: America Enters the Bardö, Trump Departs
In Tibetan Buddhism, a “bardö” is the intermediate gap we experience between death and rebirth… Said to be, for most, a foggy, confusing, dreamlike state… lost… abandoned… fear… desire… hope… The world has been obsessed with Donald J. Trump for 5 years. Nervously checking our phones dozens of times a day… What has he done […]

Groton City Council Takes Autistic Safety Seriously… But… Won’t Be Enough.
No human services should be delivered by someone packing a gun…
There’s no excuse for deadly mistakes… delivering human services.

Autism in Art: “Deliverance – An American Selfie”
There’s a hole in the American Dream…

Autism in Art: “Twilight of the Manchild,” Trump in Decline
Trump in decline…
His shadow spreads… America is diminished.

Share: What It’s Like to Be Autistic in Jail.
This … https://nativeofnowheredotblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/what-its-like-to-be-autistic-and-in-jail/ To read more about this important issue: Autism & the Police.

Drinking while Autistic: Vanilla Cream-Tini 🥃🥂
Holiday gatherings difficult…?
These should sweeten the situation…

Opinion: Police Registry Systems Give This Autist the C r e e p s . .
I believe strongly that no human services interaction should involve a human with a gun… unless overt signs of mortal violence are clearly evident.
Ever.

UPDATE: “Designing My Home Around Adult Autism”
G-d I hate my autism today…
Listen, I screwed up big-time. So I went off on a rant….

Designing My Home Around Adult Autism: 7 Principles
As an autist, I am challenged managing space, time, mind, heart, body, and above all… energy.
I need my home to work with me, for me… and what I do in my life… instead of the other way around.

Trigger Warning: New Group on Autism & the Police
New group tracking police & autism interactions.

Facebook Live Event: A VERY Kimmie & Johnny Thanksgiving
You are invited to a free live event, Thanksgiving Evening!

On Autism & Defiance: An Early Personal Memory
Parents are powerful. But not omnipotent…

Coming Out Autistic: Chat with an Old Friend
Mebbe the hardest, weirdest thing about coming out autistic? Telling folks who knew me many years ago.
Before ANY of us figured out I’m #ActuallyAutistic…

Your Free Art Print… Finally Available
I’d like to share the #AutisticJoy!
I will be sending all followers one of my digital illustrations…

Autism in Art: Recent Work (Slideshow)
As we head into American Fall 2020…
Dark landscapes haunt my autistic mind… Love gives me hope.

50 Shades of Autistic Thinking, Pt 2: Verbal Processing
What could be more basic to human experience than…
Speech…?
Mebbe, just mebbe… I’m not precisely… human.

Autism in Poetry: A Hole’s A Hole
A hole’s a hole until ya fill it…
I finally filled my autistic heart…

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