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Autism Acceptance Month: A Guide to Saying the Wrong Thing (Featuring Me)

Autism Acceptance Month: A Guide to Saying the ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month, which is a beautiful, meaningful, and—if I’m being completely honest—slightly terrifying time of year. Somewhere along the way, I learned that autism is deeply and...

Autism Acceptance Month: A Guide to Saying the ...

April is Autism Acceptance Month, which is a beautiful, meaningful, and—if I’m being completely honest—slightly terrifying time of year. Somewhere along the way, I learned that autism is deeply and...

The Extremely Awkward Art of Promoting Yourself (When Your Soul Would Prefer to Hide Behind the Couch

The Extremely Awkward Art of Promoting Yourself...

Let me tell you a secret about running a small business for me, as an autistic woman. The hardest part is not designing products.It’s not pricing them.It’s not packaging them.It’s...

The Extremely Awkward Art of Promoting Yourself...

Let me tell you a secret about running a small business for me, as an autistic woman. The hardest part is not designing products.It’s not pricing them.It’s not packaging them.It’s...

Death and Other Super Chill Stuff

Death and Other Super Chill Stuff

Hi. It’s me. Thinking about death again in a very practical, autistic way. Like: We’re all going to die. Everyone who has ever existed before us? Dead. Billions of people. All...

Death and Other Super Chill Stuff

Hi. It’s me. Thinking about death again in a very practical, autistic way. Like: We’re all going to die. Everyone who has ever existed before us? Dead. Billions of people. All...

My Weird Little Secret Ritual

My Weird Little Secret Ritual

Let’s talk about something incredibly niche, deeply satisfying, slightly embarrassing, and absolutely essential to my daily functioning as an autistic person: Cutting off my split ends. I have other stims,...

My Weird Little Secret Ritual

Let’s talk about something incredibly niche, deeply satisfying, slightly embarrassing, and absolutely essential to my daily functioning as an autistic person: Cutting off my split ends. I have other stims,...

The Year I Quit my Day Job and Accidentally Learned About my Nervous System (and Shame)

The Year I Quit my Day Job and Accidentally Lea...

I am a middle-aged woman who was diagnosed with autism late in life, which means I spent decades thinking I was just “bad at being a person.” Loud places made...

The Year I Quit my Day Job and Accidentally Lea...

I am a middle-aged woman who was diagnosed with autism late in life, which means I spent decades thinking I was just “bad at being a person.” Loud places made...

Perimenopause: Or, How My Autism Suddenly Turned the Volume to 11

Perimenopause: Or, How My Autism Suddenly Turne...

Perimenopause: Or, How My Autism Suddenly Turned the Volume to 11 I used to think I was coping reasonably well with life. Sure, I was autistic (unknowingly at the time),...

Perimenopause: Or, How My Autism Suddenly Turne...

Perimenopause: Or, How My Autism Suddenly Turned the Volume to 11 I used to think I was coping reasonably well with life. Sure, I was autistic (unknowingly at the time),...