The Autistic Experience of Sensory Overwhelm, Meltdowns, and Shutdowns
2019-12-13
An autistic exploration and breakdown of how sensory overload, meltdowns, and shutdowns feel in the moment and after the fact.
Issues with Addiction Advocacy in the Autistic Community
2019-12-13
Autistic people are often overlooked when it comes to addiction, as if they are too rule-oriented or childlike to become addicted. It's time for that to change.
Depressive Realism
2019-12-07
For me, at least, this, together with the accumulated knowledge, sometimes leads to a deep sadness about the transience of everything that exists and the subjectivity of all our perceptions, assessments and attributions of meaning.
The Long Term Impact of Bullying
2019-11-11
Mike Wise talks about his experience as being fully autistic but before anyone who was speaking could be diagnosed that way. Bullying was treated as a rite of passage and empowered, even by his teachers.
Autistic Meltdowns: From the Inside
2019-10-29
It wasn’t a bad day, in fact it was pretty good. I had worked a little overtime and was bringing some dinner home to my wife.
Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical Narrative
2019-10-29
Anxious people don’t need to be thrown into the metaphorical lion’s den to be cured of their anxiety. What we do need is to be listened to, respected, cared for and about...
Poetry: Four AM Thoughts
2019-10-11
You’d think the world were ending.
With how null-coloured cracks rack the sky.
And razor winds shred the upside down sea overhead,
Into shards of spray.
Why I’m Not a High-Functioning Autistic
2019-10-06
"We have now arrived at the ultimate falsehood of high-functioning autism: what this label really means is that you have high outside functioning. I am excellent at pretending to be someone I am not."
Autism: Healing from Trauma in Nature
2019-10-05
Wolfheart Sanchez connects to nature as a way to reset his sensory systems and find peace and harmony against the familiar and unassuming expanse of nature.
My Autism Diagnosis at Age 25
2019-09-29
I've always known that something was different about me. And not in the I’m-growing-up-and-everyone’s-weird kind of way, either. It’s also very possible — no, very probable — that the people close to me picked up on it, too.