#AutisticJoy – #AutisticAF

“Look Doc… You Just Don’t GET #AutisticJoy”

An #AutisticElder looks at the Big Picture. Life, death & dementia… the whole ball of wax. Autistic style.

Designing My Home Around Adult Autism: Pt. 2 – 7 Survival Principles

AutisticAF Out Loud cover art for S02E07.Top frame: Headline reads, "New Episode, Designing My Home Around Adult Autism: Part 1, Making It Work". It features an illustration of an elderly gentleman, reading from a script and wearing sunglasses & fedora hat. Bottom frame: "No Direction Home 2," original digital illustration in a graphic-novel influenced style of a row classical Greek pillars vanishing into the distance--showed in reverse colors.

Finally learning to create a place of safety, peace, and passionate work…

Did more than keep me out of psych wards. It kept me alive. No joke.

If you’re autistic, love one, work with some… or just can’t figure out if you are one… You really, *really * need to think about where you live…

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Fanning The Flames: #AutisticJoy in the Classroom – Live Talk, s2e5

AutisticAF Out Loud cover art for S02E05. Headline reads, "AutisticAF Out Loud: Fanning the Flames: #Autistic Joy in the Classroom, Intersectional Infinity Summit, Live Talk, April Fool's Day, 2022." It features a photo of an elderly gentleman, reading from a script and wearing sunglasses & fedora hat.

Live presentation, Intersectional Inifinity Conferencce.

A little funny. A little bittersweet. And a lotta sly insight from this former class clown…

Let’s kick Autistic April off with a squeal… w/transcript.More

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“The Cavalry Never Comes”: Sexual Assault & An Autistic Life, Pt. 2 s02e02

AutisticAF Out Loud cover art for S02E02.Top frame: Headline reads, "New Episode, The Cavalry Never Comes: Sexual Assault & Autism, Pt. 2". It features an illustration of an elderly gentleman, reading from a script and wearing sunglasses & fedora hat. Bottom frame: "Not Everyone Was My Friend," original digital illustration in a graphic-novel influenced style of a priest leering. From a frame grab of Mystic River.

You can help your autistic loved ones feel safer from sexual abuse & assault…

It starts with honesty about yourself… and them.More

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“Not Everyone Was My Friend”: Sexual Assault & An Autistic Life s02e01

Cover art for "Not Everyone Was My Friend: Sexual Assault & an Autistic Life": Headline reads "New Episode, Not Everyone Was My Friend: Sexual Assault & Autism. Top illustration shows elderly gentleman in sunglasses & fedora hat. Bottom illustration shows a child of indeterminate gender & race cowering in a dark corner.

There’s not much research on sexual abuse of autistic children… much less adults.

So here’s my story. CN: Explicit. w/transcript.

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Confessions of an #AdultAutistic Anxiety Junkie – Stimming, Overload & Anxiety, Pt.3

Podcast & transcript: What better holiday to discuss adult autistic anxiety…

Than Colonialist Thanksgiving….?

For many, a freaking minefield of social obligation, exhausting small talk & grinding anxiety.More

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Zen & the Autistic Art of the Stim: Autistic Stimming, Overload & Anxiety, Pt. 2

Dear autist, you are hard-wired for #AutisticJoy.

Stimming is part of that wiring… Podcast with Transcript.More

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☝️✌️👉ShortShort: Stumbling into #AutisticJoy… Backwards

Most folks feel they achieve their best in their youth. Then slowly decline as they age.

Not #AutisticAF me…More

Autistic Stimming, Overload & Anxiety, Pt. 1: NOISE – A Spoken Song

"Scream"... Original digital illustration, after Hitchcock's Psycho. Image contains a digital painting of actress Janet Leigh's famous wide-mouthed scream in the shower.

Let me bring you inside my world. Experience autistic sensory overload…More

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How to Get Diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic… in Just 26 Years! – Podcast s1e8

"How To Get Diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic... In Just 26 Years!" - AutisticAF Out Loud, Episode 8. Image: Top: Picture of older autistic man, wearing a Fedora, with caption "S1 - Episode 8, How to Get Diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic... In Just 26 Years! AutisticAF Out Loud Podcast. Bottom: Dark illustration, black, red & brown, of a screaming zombie's mouth reflected in a mirror.

First off… This is NOT a poor-me story…

It’s a journey to #AutisticJoy… story.More

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Autistic Shutdowns: Believe I’ll Ch-Ch-Change My Shirt – Podcast s1e7-B

“Well, we all have meltdowns, don’t we, sweetie…?”

Ummmmm… Actually…? No.More

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#AutisticJoy, Orgasmic Learning… & Ecstasy – Podcast: s1e7

Picture of Podcast title & dark, brown xray of boy's head being struck by lightning.

Let’s dive into the most universal autistic experience of all… and it’s one hiding right in front of your face.

Even if no one talks about it…More

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Comic Book Hero: Surviving Bullying – A Spoken Song (bonus podcast)

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How did autistic & other neurodiverse kids survive the Dark Ages before IEPs, 504 plans, targeted therapy, noise-canceling headphones…?

Here’s some brutal autistic truth-teling for ya… (with transcript)More

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Autistic Masking as Performance Art (podcast)

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Ever hear of autistic masking?

If you’re wondering if you ARE autistic… this is gonna sound strangely familiar… (podcast w/transcript).More

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Dear Autist: Forgiving Your Family? NOT a Cosmic Rule… (podcast)

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Not forgiving your abusers does NOT mean you are a “bad autist.”

You are a survivor. (podcast w/transcript).More

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Podcast: Millennial Friends: You. Are. Right… Question EveryTHING.

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Whether the world you were born into works for you… or not…

You may find some words here that mean something…More

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Millennial Friends: You. Are. Right… Question EveryTHING. (Transcript)

Podcast here… Millennial culture is my favorite on Earth. And autistic Millenials…? I identify with them like no others. I talk with autistics who are staring at turning 30… or 40… every day. Smart. Educated. Eyes wide open…Yet bewildered. Uncertain. Some think they’ve done something wrong… but can’t figure out what. But some are… mad.…More

Podcast: I’m Still Autistic. I STILL Fear Cops: One Year after Linden Cameron

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I think it’s time for a little controversy.

Let’s talk about cops… autists… and tragic violence. Out. Loud.

Podcast, including transcript.More

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Podcast: On #AutisticJoy, Personality & Being in the Flow…

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Today, I’m hot on the trail of #Autistic Joy.

What it is. Why you want it. How to get it. Podcast, with transcript.More

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Note to a Younger Autistic Friend. Podcast 1.

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“Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be autistic…”

Heart-felt note to college student rebuked by professor for being… well, autistic.More

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