What is the point of communicating if people are going to ignore your message but focus on your “tone,” or tell you they know how you feel better than you do, or that your feelings are a problem? Why speak if they are only going to complain that you echo and script?
Warning: this article has spoilers for the anime Darling in the Franxx. I’m autistic, and I was homeschooled until college by parents who tried to
Autism is misunderstood, as is pica. It takes a long time for some of it to be diagnosed, in my case forty-eight years for autism.
For thirty years, an autistic woman wondered why she was so different from those around her. She realized that her calling was inextricable from why.
For its Power, Magic, & Transcendence Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Anti-autistic editors at Wikipedia have gotten many autistic pages removed from the site because they take issue with the way they learned to communicate. We are republishing the pages in protest.
Creative writing in the form of freeverse poetry. An autistic portrayal of what lies behind the mask.
Resident diva and listmaker extraordinaire Patrick Magpie, unsure in all of his inherent awkwardness, asked some friends about how to approach a crush.
Do you hate me because I have the unique ability to question my surroundings objectively without superstition to cloud my judgement? Do you hate me
Gee didn’t know she was transgender for most of her life. Here are the signs she missed.