Today’s Adulting For Autistics topic is one of the most overwhelming and scary parts of adult life: filing your taxes! Taxes are overwhelming and confusing for pretty much everyone, NT or otherwise. Many people pay lots of money to have someone else handle their taxes, […]
One of the hallmarks of autism is asynchronous development – also known as the Spiky Profile or “islands of skill”. All this means is that some of our skills are very well-developed and others are much lower, so that a graph of our test scores […]
I want to clear something up today. Lots of people draw distinctions between speaking and non-speaking autistics, as if that matters. And the people who make these distinctions don’t seem to realize that it’s not as simple as “verbal” vs. “non-verbal”. Like so much of […]
Happy New Year! As we put 2020 in the rearview mirror (finally), we all need a bit of safe celebration. So, since this year felt more like a decade, I give you ten more of my favorite stimmy songs for the new year! Air on […]
Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone! This is going to be a short post, as I’m sure everyone has better things to be doing on Christmas Eve than reading my ramblings. It’s a weird Christmas, that’s for sure. Being separated from family, friends, and all […]
Recent events like the backlash to a trailer for a film I won’t mention here have brought up that perennial blister of the autistic community – why Autism Speaks is such a problem. For many people outside the autistic community or those new to the […]
Today I’m reveling in my holiday traditions of baking, cooking, and watching my favorite Christmas movies. Everybody has those things that make us say “it’s just not the holidays without _______!” We call them traditions, but I think it’s more than that. For me, and […]
Autistic people stim in lots of ways – we jump, rock, use weighted blankets, touch favorite textures, etc. One of my favorite ways to stim is verbally. I like playing with words, with the sounds of them and the feel of them in my mouth, […]
It’s Thanksgiving here in the US, so for the holiday, I’m giving you a quick list of ten of my favorite stimmy songs. Now, most of my life revolves around music – I’m a dancer, my mind can’t be allowed to run around unsupervised – […]
I speak in movie quotes, tv references, and lines out of books and plays. Honestly, it’s one of my biggest obstacles to clear communication because the lines I reference can be kind of obscure, but when I find people who get it, I know we’ll […]
