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?
Alexithymia has never been so thoroughly or thoughtfully defined in all the ways it affects a person who can’t feel exactly how it affects them.
Aspergian contributors offer advice on how to deal with your autistic tween’s explosive emotions.
When the crushing weight of life far exceeds the strength of your executive function, autistic burnout happens. This is a view of how that looks.
I remember the acrid smell of something broken. Salty, sour, it permeated the Gulf Coast air like the scent of some fading electrical fire or
Autistic people experience emotions differently from neurotypicals, and what they experience as emotions others see as ideas. Here’s how.
Myth: Autistics don’t feel emotions. Bzzzzt. Wrong. As someone with Asperger’s, I can testify to the fact of that being 100% false. My emotions are
The media paints a picture of Aspies that is incorrect. We are thought to be disruptive, burdensome, and downright dangerous. That’s what outsiders want you
I don’t easily arrive at an emotional connection, but once I let my guard down and allow that connection to flourish, it is hard and
If you haven’t already, click here to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. I look back at all of this
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