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…More
Tag Archives: Autism
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.
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Autism in Art: “Deliverance – An American Selfie”
There’s a hole in the American Dream… More
On Autism & Defiance: An Early Personal Memory
Parents are powerful. But not omnipotent… More
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…More
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.
Music that Rocked My World: A Damn-Near Autism-Free Journey
What pop music changed your world…?
Autistic. Or not.More
Autism & Love…
Big topic.
Let’s try talking…More
Autism in Poetry: It Burns
I’ve seen the fiercest hearts of my generation burn themselves alive, lips wrapped around a pipe…
Family is complex for this autistic.More
Autism & Neurodiversity…? Srsly?
Nature don’t make garbage…
Controversial? SRSLY…?More
I’m Autistic. I Fear Cops….
I fear every police officer & cop car I see.
And in 21st Century America… I see them everywhere.
So I bought a Medical Alert Bracelet. To protect myself from “helping” First Responders…More
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Autistic Self-Doubt: A brief, very personal post.
I’ve been struggling with some self-doubt.
It’s an autism thang.More
Cooking while Autistic: Wilted Garden Salad
Wilted Garden Salad… About 10 minutes. Tops! Massive Nutrition! Vegan! (Or Not!)More
Autistic Folk Don’t Need IDs… OR. Armed. Cops.
There is no… none whatsoever… NO reason for a person performing a welfare check, or other purely social service, to be packing any form of lethal weapon. More
Autism in Poetry: My Friend Billy
Friendship is complex for this autistic…
Billy & I had nothing in common. Except our hearts.More
What My Autism Looks Like… Right NOW.
Can’t wrap my head around it. Not this moment in history… Not this moment in my life…
Not this m o m e n t
Autism in Poetry: Got A Hate On
My autistic heart cannot seperate my life from our world’s fate…
And the rising tides of hate.
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Managing My Autism… A Personal Panic List
When the fog of meltdown comes on, I can’t think of what to do in that moment… to just deal….
So I made a little list…More
On #AutisticJoy, Personality & Being in the Flow…
Autistic joy is hard to explain to another person. Pretty much ANY non-autistic person.
And trying to… drags me into Deep Philosophical Waters…More
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