Making friends with shadows [autistic poetry]

Perhaps part of my cocooning that I had mentioned in my last post has to do with exploring darkness.  Maybe …

Walk with who you are [belated Mental Health Monday]

Breaking Bad, a show that aired on the US cable TV channel AMC from 2008 until 2013, is essentially about …

Incomplete autism (?)

Sometimes I feel like I’m not exactly a “completely” autistic person, in a way. What does that mean? Well, it’s …

Giving up vices on the Asperger’s / autism spectrum

I’m kind of a mess.  I’m more sedentary than I should be.   I engage in the use of a …

Relief and grief ~ the reality of adult Asperger’s / autism discovery

When one is diagnosed as Asperger’s/autistic (or otherwise realized to be on the spectrum) as an adult, an interesting dichotomy …

It’s looking more and more like EDS…

When one goes through med school, there’s a peculiar phenomenon that occurs when you reach the Pathology courses.  As one …

30 Things I’ve learned since learning that I ‘have’ Asperger’s / autism

(To be clear, when I write words like “I ‘have’” and “people ‘with’”, I’m not trying to advocate or emphasize …

Standing at the Mirror Gate

After seven days of anticipation, the gavel bangs. The report has arrived, an innocuous little PDF file, attached to an …

One Aspie’s “Asperger soundtrack” explained…

I guess I feel like writing semi-odd posts today.  Or maybe if not “odd”, then certainly unusual, a bit outside …

Constructing a Timeline of Life: my Aspie-flavored autobiography, Part 3 of 3

This is the third–and final–installment of my Asperger’s-tinted autobiography.  Once again, as stated in Parts 1 and 2, I’m writing …

One Aspie’s “autism discovery soundtrack”

This post–and indeed, this concept–might seem kind of odd, but to make an incredible understatement, music is a central and …