Latest articles: Being autistic
The latest articles for this subsite.
- Autism and identity
- We live in a world that was made for extroverted personalities, and for autistic people trying to fit into this world is exhausting.
- Mental illness and suicide
- Many autistic people have depression and anxiety. Please do not assume people are okay and dismiss it with platitudes.
- Autistic burnout
- This article is an illustration of how autistic burnout can escalate to chronic burnout if we don't have right perspective of what we are doing that is contributing to this happening.
- Autistic response to change
- Many autistic people try to control their environment because surprises are not a welcomed friend.
- Ableism
- It doesn’t matter how much research non autistic people do and then call themselves experts, we as autistic people are the experts, so we need to encourage people to talk to us.
- Autism assessment
- How I prepared for my autism assessment. It may help others considering a formal diagnosis.
- Changing hearts and minds
- We often hear from autistic people that the world wasn’t made for us. The world was made to include and except all neurotypes.
- Autism and trauma
- Autistic trauma is real, often overlooked, and deeply tied to lifelong exclusion.
- Partners with autism
- This article is about romantic relationships between two autistic people, but it can and does apply to other relationships such as family and friendships with people who are also autistic.
- Conscious solitude
- Conscious solitude nurtures our true essence, and is the only real way of hearing what our hearts are trying to tell us.