Gee’s aunt was killed in a plane crash, and years later, she is still getting to know her aunt and how very much they had in common as she learns to embrace herself as trans and autistic.
Grasping the unique relationship between autistic people and their genders is an essential component of understanding the autistic experience.
I’m a punk. I’m a rebel. I think one of the most badass things you can do is fight the system, and the biggest system there is is the culture of division and the human nature of defensiveness.
A whole family emerges from the wreckage of gay conversion therapy, anti-autistic ABA therapy, and social oppression to find its heart and soul together.
“We have now arrived at the ultimate falsehood of high-functioning autism: what this label really means is that you have high outside functioning. I am excellent at pretending to be someone I am not.”
When Greta Thunberg began to take the stage as an autistic climate change activist, the world took notice. My reaction was one of powerful pride, not just as an autistic adult, but as a former autistic girl. Here was an articulate, passionate, brilliant girl unfocused on fame and fashion, who wasn’t going to let the weight of the NT world crush her or keep her from speaking out!
Be yourself… What does that mean? How do you know when you are not yourself? What are the steps you can take to be yourself?
Gee didn’t know she was transgender for most of her life. Here are the signs she missed.
When DuplexStructure heard the song “Otherside” in 2000, it resonated with her. It took her twenty years of listening to the song to know why.
Gender norms are often at odds with autistic sensory needs. An exploration of the intersection of social expectations, sensory sensitivity, and self-expression.
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