Society does not treat disabled people with the compassion, respect or listening ear with which it treats our abusers.
actually autistic
Johnny Partridge’s Stripped: Inspiring Me To #TakeTheMaskOff
After the dim spiral I had been on in the previous months, which I now recognise as a mixture of depression, and anxiety, and the last sputterings of autistic burnout, this show was exactly what I needed to see.
‘Autistic’ Is Not An Insult
I will not stand by and watch the bastardisation of a word that is part of my very definition.
New Year, Same Me
I'm still nervous about the global political climate, I'm still full of emotional turmoil, and I'm still going to be blogging about both of those things.
Autistic ‘Success’: Redefining The Neurotypical Narrative
The definition of success seems to depend very much on the frame that you're looking at it through. And the frame of my 'success' is the neurotypical gaze.
My Autistic Headcanons (and why I prefer them to most ‘actually autistic’ characters)
These characters were my very own line-up of autistic headcanons. And I identified more with them than I did with the very few characters who were written as 'autistic' from the beginning.
