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On Autistics and Substance Use During Lockdown

On: April 30, 2020

In: Acceptance, Addiction, Autism, Mental health and trauma

If you’re finding lockdown and quarantine are contributing to an increase in your use of drugs, alcohol, or other unhealthy coping mechanisms, these steps might help you to find some healthier ways to navigate difficult times.

A group of girls, standing outside, bullying a young adult woman by calling her out.

Call-Out Culture and Learned Helplessness

By: ItinerantMystic

On: March 25, 2020

In: Autism, Bullying and abuse, Intersectionality, Mental health and trauma

With: 9 Comments

It is those who seize power and control via their continued privileges who often become the spokespeople of a given minority group. Call-out culture needs to be called out because it has become a tool of oppressors.

Mindfulness in the Spiraling World of COVID-19

By: ItinerantMystic

On: March 22, 2020

In: Autism, Change, Self-Help

With: 0 Comments

The world right now is uncertain, but the truth is that the world has always been uncertain. Our ability to cope with whatever life brings is centered in our own ability to engage in measured and healthy ways.

How Can Autism Affect Your Health?

By: Pete Wharmby

On: December 2, 2019

In: Autism, Living life

With: 9 Comments

Many barriers exist that keep autistic people from maintaining their health and self care best practices, and this can have catastrophic effects on autistic individuals.

Poetry: Four AM Thoughts

By: avouleance

On: October 11, 2019

In: Autism, Mental health and trauma, Poetry

With: 1 Comment

You’d think the world were ending.
With how null-coloured cracks rack the sky.
And razor winds shred the upside down sea overhead,
Into shards of spray.

POETRY: The Moon’s Lunacy

By: vormaen

On: October 5, 2019

In: Autism, Poetry

With: 1 Comment

Too bold and too brazen, set sunlit clouds of envious hues
They form and dither without recollect of heart’s healing

Be Yourself: How Do You Do It?

By: Gee Abraham

On: September 27, 2019

In: Autism, Experiences, Gender and LGBTQIA, Identity, Masking, Mental health and trauma, Perception, Self-Help

With: 0 Comments

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?

Poetry: The Relativity of Necessity

By: stinkyzen

On: August 29, 2019

In: Autism, Mental health and trauma, Poetry

With: 1 Comment

What are we really saying when we say, "Oh well," "nevermind," "I can do without it," or "forget I ever mentioned it. A poetic exploration.

I Wanted to “Cure My Autism,” Too– One Autistic Woman’s Story of Internalized Ableism

By: Jaime A. Heidel - The Articulate Autistic

On: June 10, 2019

In: Autism, Experiences

With: 13 Comments

While reading this brilliant and informative article, Destroying the “Lack of Empathy” Myth in the Wake of Bleach Enemas & Autistic Abuse, I was reminded of the many times in my life that I wanted to “cure my autism,” too, which