I am a diagnosed autism and proud of it. My blog encourages neurotypicals to accept us for who we are and for other autistics to embrace what is wrongly labled a “disease” from certain people.
Gonna share these rap lyics I just wrote with my therapist tomorrow. I think she’ll be very proud. I know I am: “I won’t turn the other cheek I won’t accept that I’m a freak I won’t let u bring me down I won’t turn my fucking frown upside down I won’t respect crookedness I […]
Yesterday I had yet another very productive and insightful session with my therapist. It started out with me once again venting about how I am constantly stressing over being 30 instead of 20 and how depression has stole over a decade of my life. It then turned into her reassuring me that it was very […]
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Every week I have a very productive appointment with my therapist. The 45 minutes go by so fast but I always leave feeling different than when I came in. Sometimes happier, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes angry. The second and third ones I mentioned have nothing to do with my therapist keep in mind. She is still […]
There is so much work to be done when it comes to ending the stigma. One of the reasons for this is that some people are very resistant to any kind of change regarding how we view mental health. While this may come across as generalizing, and maybe it is, there is indeed a huge […]
Up until I was eight years old, my family lived in a semi-community type suburban street. I lived across from and near where friends at my elementary school lived. The house me and my parents lived in was actually a duplex that was owned by the family that lived upstairs from us. But from the […]
“So this has been on my mind a little bit lately. I keep seeing on the news about how Americans are moving further to the left and Trump supporters are decreasing. Good thing right? Absolutely. And I am happy about that. But does it change how people like me with autism get treated or more-so […]
