Autistic and overwhelmed

I’m 1,350 miles away from home.  I’m surrounded by 1,300 people, practically all of them neurotypical, from uppity posh socioeconomic …

The great divide

It has been nearly two weeks since a Grand Canyon formed within the autism spectrum community on social media, namely …

Exclusion, inclusion, and … the autism spectrum

When someone tells me they have good news and bad news and they ask me which one I’d prefer to …

The beauty in the gray

An INTJ-A* (Myers-Briggs type) Aspie (that’s me) is about as “black and white” as it gets. Something either is, or …

Star-shaped peg in a square-pegged world – Part 1: Curing out of convenience

A quick note before I begin…Please understand that this post is not meant to brow-beat the good allistic parents/friends/significant others …