Category: Autistic living
Exploring how daily life affects our mental health, wellbeing, and sense of safety.
- Anxiety
- Embracing anxiety allows us to understand what it is teaching us about ourselves, thus accepting it is part of who we are and what we came here to learn from.
- Autism and loneliness
- Many people with autism feel lonely in a world that wasn’t made for them, so when people try to change them being themselves, it only fuels more feelings of isolation.
- Autism and trauma
- Autistic trauma is real, often overlooked, and deeply tied to lifelong exclusion.
- 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.
- Conscious solitude
- Conscious solitude nurtures our true essence, and is the only real way of hearing what our hearts are trying to tell us.
- Getting help
- I am a retired autistic elder with many co-occurring conditions. I worked in the healing and mentoring industry for decades before retiring.
- 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.