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The Challenge Ahead…

March 12, 2018 / QueerlyAutistic / Leave a comment

The next week (or so) has been bequeathed from hell to challenge me. 

Merry Christm-Aspie

December 26, 2017December 26, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / Leave a comment

I have a strange and wonderful and terrible and contentious relationship with this time of year. 

Quiet Carriages are an Autistic lifeline. Please don’t take them away.

December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / 3 Comments

Quiet carriages are absolutely a lifeline for disabled people like myself. Some days they are the only reason I have the emotional energy to succeed at work.

Blech (or “I’m not very good at being ill”)

November 23, 2017November 23, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / 1 Comment

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

When Anxiety Gets Angry

October 23, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / 1 Comment

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

Emotion as a sensory experience

June 29, 2017June 29, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / 1 Comment

I can feel it physically: hear it, taste it, smell it, see it. Emotional overload is no different to me than sensory overload.

Thor: Dog of Thunder

May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / Leave a comment

He is my beautiful, brave, loving, silly, pathetic, cowardly, loyal, protective, fabulous boy. Sometimes, I love him so much I could cry.

The Inevitable Fidget Spinner Post

May 18, 2017May 18, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / Leave a comment

For every person who complains about how annoying they find this new fad, I will shoot back that it's a lot less annoying than a twenty-five year old woman descending into meltdown in a public space.

The cold always bothered me anyway…

May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 / QueerlyAutistic / Leave a comment

I've always known I feel the cold. I had just never thought about in terms of those wonderful labels that started clicking into place once I got my diagnosis.

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