Month: February 2018

The Liebster Award is designed to encourage connections between bloggers. So let’s get connecting!

Mainstream political concern about mental illness, neurodivergence and the relevant support systems exists only as a cover for calling out white male violence. 

As women, we are taught that we must shoulder the emotional burden of being okay. As autistic women, the burden of okayness becomes even heavier. We are always okay. Except when we aren’t.

My mum is and always has been my safe place to fall. And as I get older, I’m becoming more and more aware that some day I won’t have her there. 

I feel like an imposter in my own neurotype. And, in a room full of people I know I belong with, I find myself thinking: but what if I don’t?