Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Autism, Autistic, Neurodiversity, Neurodivergence - inTune Pathways

Reflections

 

 

 

 

 

Am I more than neurodivergent?

In order to identify as neurodivergent, I have first had to understand what I diverge from.

Most people hear the term neurodivergent and hear that I am diverging from ‘typical’.

Typical...

Continue Reading...

I never want to forget.

This is an image of me, deep in the trenches, around a decade ago.

My husband would message from work each day and ask how 'things' were.

Some days, I couldn't speak. I'd send pictures. This was...

Continue Reading...

Our child is struggling with demand avoidance and cannot complete simple, familiar tasks.

 

I've been reflecting on a powerful concept we discussed in our recent Q&A from inTune with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance).

The art of living in the now, especially when...

Continue Reading...

I will not wait until I’m in my last days.

So many people unconsciously spend (waste) their lives working toward what they hope will be peace, one day.

Work hard, then rest.

Main meal first, then dessert.

Wees first, then poos. (I made that...

Continue Reading...

It never gets easier

It never gets easier, nor am I ever better prepared for the moments my autistic children (and I) are exposed to another parent’s grief stricken story about their autistic child.

I was...

Continue Reading...

I have not yet rebuilt.

Hello, I’m here writing. It isn’t easy, and it isn’t complete.

Be patient with me, please, as I figure out a way to communicate this internalised experience, these thousands of...

Continue Reading...

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,...

Continue Reading...

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...

Continue Reading...

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...

Continue Reading...

Stop looking away from intersectionality

Kristy Forbes - inTune Pathways
Stop looking away from intersectionality
9:06
 
 
 
(Warning: This written content includes discussion around themes of racism, transphobia, homophobia, suicidality.)
.
.
.
.
.
Almost every time I address the topic of...
Continue Reading...
1 2 3 4