Tag: autistic

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 brain is juggling so many things, and if you throw something else at me without warning, the likelihood is that I’m going to miss it altogether or drop it before its first rotation is complete. 

His phone call to the charity was shared as a courageous exposé. I had to stop watching after three minutes because I was on the edge of a memory-scarred panic attack. 

The horrible cough-and-cold mixture is the ultimate magnification of all the things that push those sensory overload buttons in my brain. 

My journey is my journey alone- but I hope that there are some elements of what I have learned that can help. 

I don’t remember much of my childhood. Is this an ‘autism’ thing, or an ‘everyone else experiences this but I can’t read or replicate their bullshit’ thing?

I have a major personal conundrum: I enjoy spending time with people I like, but I have a severely limited supply of social energy to do so.

When neurotypical people talk about anxiety, they’re not willing to talk about the other, less sympathetic, manifestations.

It was a crushing, overpopulated corner of hell, and I promised myself I would never go into the situation again unarmed.

I often hold my queerness hand in hand with my autism. They are what make me beautiful and unique. They are also what paints a target on my head.

I accept that this isn’t the kind of grandiose statement the great poets of our time will write songs about. But it is a huge, empowering revelation for me.

You claim to be against cruelty. And yet you will stand by and abet the cruelty that neurodiverse people face every day.