There’s a troublesome stereotype that says autistic children don’t play “correctly”. It’s even considered a diagnostic item in some circles. This is usually meant to say that autistic children will line up their toys instead of playing with them “the right way” – like playing […]
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’ve wanted to write this post for a while and I’ve put it off because I really wanted to do this topic justice. So I’m doing it now and hopefully I’m doing it well. Growing up autistic, especially not knowing it, was really hard. Navigating […]
As you know if you’ve been keeping up with my work stress lately, in all the upheaval of COVID-19 I have been moved from my usual no-contact-with-people information synthesis duties and instead put on phones. PHONES. Luckily, I’m not answering them – a decade in […]
As the saying goes, clothes make the man – or woman. As autistic adults, we can use this idea to our advantage to give us more confidence in social or overwhelming situations. When we feel good, we can cope better. When we feel at ease, […]
One of the reasons that women on the spectrum are not readily diagnosed is that we are better at camouflaging ourselves among other women. Part of this has to do with the fact that autistic girls’ special interests are often “normal“ girlish interests like horses […]
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 […]
