Reflections
Essays from Kristy Forbes exploring PDA, autistic experience, parenting, identity, care, systems and the ordinary moments that shape family life.
You don't like the soup?
(ETA: This is not about being against therapy. It is a piece on the problematic nature of generic frameworks thrown at autistic people, rather than a consideration of the individual needs, wants, preferences and if there...
Yesterday, someone trolled me on social media.
Yesterday, someone trolled me on social media.
That in itself isn’t the thing. That happens to autistic folks who joyfully resist the disorder narrative all the time.
It’s threatening to some, to read my writings or he...
Hypermobility
Long story short.
Oh, I love the fantasy of the "long story short" right there for me, an ADHDer.
But I'll try.
Last year, I laid on a surgery table, unresponsive, in hypertensive crisis.
I was not responding to me
...Stop looking away from intersectionality
What happens when you say "No."
Failed relationships & neurodivergence
Ahh, the wonderful weekend. I hope you're having a brilliant one so far.
This week, for something different, the team and I decided we'd share a conversation with community from my Facebook page this past week.
We touc...
I'd rather stab my eye than do this... (spoiler: it's group work)
This is Me.
My Dreaming Life
I remember every single name, every single humiliation.
At fifteen years old, I left school midway through Year Nine and went into the workforce.
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I vehemently expressed that I would not return to school and with that, my mother said if I was not returning, I needed to get...