The Veil [autistic poetry]

(My favorite day of the year is Samhain/Halloween, and my favorite place is an open road, especially somewhere in the …

#MeToo ~ Chapter 2: The ‘Boyfriend’

Wow. ❤ ❤  First, I want to say a deep, heartfelt Thank You to everyone who has written about their …

#MeToo ~ Chapter 1

I have the feeling that I should issue the usual Content Advisories for obvious reasons.  If you’re feeling vulnerable right …

Autism and mirroring

I was learning how to be a doctor.  I was steeped in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, clinical diagnosis, physical diagnosis, pediatrics, …

Another face [autistic poetry]

(I wrote this in the summer of 1995, while listening to the soothing contemporary sounds of Canadian artist Mae More; …

The Silent Wave news and updates 😁

I’m here!  All is well, although I have little time and just a few energy units left for the day, …

Blog claim on BL, round 2

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’m not spamming y’all, I promise. I’m not nagging anybody to follow me there. I’m …

Claiming my blog on Bloglovin’

Follow my blog with Bloglovin OK, here we go again  🙂   Of course, it was my fault that I’m going …

I was dead wrong about #Bloglovin’…

Follow my blog with Bloglovin (Sheepishly: yeah, you read that right.  I’ll explain…) (Deep breath…) OK.  Here goes.  Late last …

Feathers [autistic poetry]

I wrote this 19 years ago today, during a reflection upon a summer crush I had that year.  It turns …

I thought Bloglovin’ was an unauthorized duplicator of this blog [PSA]

I discovered tonight that this entire blog has been sucked into BL, copied verbatim on their own site, with no …

Autism, irony, and the Self-Esteem Movement

This is something that has always bothered me, even as a then-unknown autistic person.  The difference between then and now, …