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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Too bold and too brazen, set sunlit clouds of envious hues They form and dither without recollect of heart’s healing
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?
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 had absolutely no idea how much I hated myself (or even what internalized ableism was) until I was in my mid-thirties and had a complete nervous breakdown.
On the life-saving power of music for the autistic experience and how music becomes inextricable from the identity.