When you're autistic and you're not okay, you're really not okay.
Sometimes, everything feels bloody hard.
Setting boundaries, carefully sifting through language in order to avoid hurting others in your expression of boundaries, having your character questioned, and then,
We turn on ourselves.
What's...
What I want you to know first and foremost is that I am autistic.
I am an autistic person married to another autistic person, and we have created four perfectly whole autistic children.
We are not broken versions of non autistic people.
We are not second rate human beings.
We are autistic people.
We...
What is it to pathologise a human being?
To describe or understand all of their behaviour, their emotions, their wants and needs, their very being as symptoms of disorder.
Many parents will ask questions such as:
"How do I keep my child calm and stop them from melting down?"
And often, at the centre...
Every day I see memes flow over my socials that place unnecessary pressure on many people who are divergent.
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I know it’s meant to be positive.
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Yep, purpose is great.
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But what **IS** purpose?!
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Is it what you do with your time?
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Is it how much money you make?
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Is it who you are?
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You know what I...
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"Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships, ranging, for example, from difficulties adjusting behaviour to suit various social contexts; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to absence of interest in peers."
Autism diagnostic criteria;
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