One-(wo)man army

Last year was what I felt as a year of “Firsts”.  My “first” airplane flight, my “first” conference, my “first” …

The second video is live! :)

Howdy everybody!  I did indeed make–and upload!–the second video tonight!  😁 This one is somewhat longer than the first one. …

Autism, emotions, and self-expression

Hollywood and the media would have people believe that autistic people are “robots”. (I know, right?) But those of us …

Autism is my code-key

Growing up, I heard the word “weird” frequently.  So frequently, in fact, that I used its finger to point at …

Barometers

Common on the Asperger’s/autism spectrum is the occurrence of Alexithymia, or the difficulty with identifying and expressing emotions.  During the …

Of machine and human

There was a time, over half my life ago, that I wanted to be machine. Not a machine, necessarily, but …

My Asperger’s / autism and (my need for) self-defense [Mental Health Monday]

Still peeling the onion.  Asperger’s/autism discovery as an adult, for me, has been a never-ending–yet unpredictable–cycle of unpacking and reframing. …

How it feels to find my island

Roughly a year ago, I wrote about how it felt to find a personal circle of fellow Asperger’s/autistic peeps, a …

They thought I was ‘intense’…when I was actually autistic

All my life, the word “intense” has crept into the conversation, usually in reference to my personality or my behavior …

Letting go

Another topic that in hindsight didn’t get its due coverage (during the early days of my Asperger’s/autism spectrum discovery) is …

Autistic retrospect

A year and five months later, I’ve come to realize that I shouldn’t have put off starting this blog.  When …

Echoes

So many autistic people have spoken.  Spoken up, spoken out, spoken like a boss.  Spoken as though they know what …