I have lost count of the times a headline has flashed with a tagline that sets my heart racing and none of the details I need to actually understand the situation.
mental health
There’s too much to blog about!
There’s too much to write about, to think about, to be worried about. And it can be so overwhelming that I end up unable to do anything.
Sorry Not Sorry
I feel obliged to give constant apologies for existing as a neurodiverse person in a neurotypical world.
An ode to scarves and survival
In the end, there was simply too much to talk about. So I've decided to talk about scarves.
Leave my crazy pills alone!
It took an internal war before I realised that these pills may be something that I would need for the rest of my life - and that that was okay.
Let’s talk about ‘Quiet Zones’
I don't want to be an interfering busybody lecturing on the rules of the train carriage, but I'd rather be that than the meltdown monster I become when it all gets too much.
‘But what if they’re dead?’ – catastrophisation and the anxiety of loss
Sometimes, when I wake up at night and my dogs are lying around me, I have to reach out and check they are still breathing.
“I won’t be ignored!” – Thank You, Chester Bennington
I wish I could tell him how he took an angry, lonely, confused little queer autistic girl, and gave her the tools she needed to survive.
Owning my fatness…fabulously
I'm fat. This isn't a statement that is up for debate. I am beautiful. I am also fat.
Bees In My Brain – on autism, anxiety and reaching breaking point
Do you ever feel like someone has dropped a box of bees in your brain?
