I’ve spent many years teaching myself how to pass as a Neurotypical person for at least a few hours a day. While my ability to mask in public has served me well in helping me to hold down jobs and such, it’s also taken a […]
We talk about “masking” a lot in the Autistic community – the strenuous process of pretending to be neurotypical. There’s a lot of discussion around whether masking is healthy or unhealthy, the toll it takes on our mental health, and whether it’s good, bad, or […]
This isn’t a great, well thought out post, but it’s necessary today. If you’ve ever dealt with well-intentioned NTs, I think this situation will be familiar to you and I honestly don’t know how to handle it, so I think we should talk about this. […]
I was recently relieved of my day job, and in the course of deciding on my next path, I’ve been looking into what assistance might be available to me. At one point in this search, I was dealing with a rather pretentious young man in […]
