Symptoms – #AutisticAF

On Autism & Defiance: An Early Personal Memory

Parents are powerful. But not omnipotent… More

What could be more basic to human experience than…
Speech…?

Mebbe, just mebbe… I’m not precisely… human.

Big topic.

Let’s try talking…More

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

I’ve been struggling with some self-doubt.

It’s an autism thang.More

I begin a series exploring how my autistic mind works…

Cuz if we don’t show ’em our hearts…. How will they ever love us? More

I’ve come to enjoy the sound of my own voice…

Understanding how & why takes me stumbling down a deep rabbit hole…
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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

No apology. No justification. No lecture. No discussion. No education. No enlightenment…

Here’s the experience of autistic sensory overload.More

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

The issue isn’t age, education, or IQ… Autistics vary just like neurotypical humans…

But intensity…? We got that covered like stink on shiznit.More