The thing I found online pertaining to ADHD (which I almost certainly have) is there isn't this thing called friendship degradation. We pick up on a friendship at the point we left off regardless of how much time has passed. For me that also means obsessing over close...
Great post on communication for those of us on the autistic spectrum. People have accused me of being too direct which I believe is fine but NT's don't.
From an NYTimes article on Autistic burnout: Autistic adults are also more likely to feel suicidal; a 2018 study published in Molecular Autism found that 72 percent of autistic adults scored highly for suicide risk, compared to 33 percent of the general population....
For me being someone far from privilege I think it is so important to find spaces that are actually meritocratic (in my case making family videos and writing poetry) because the general world prejudice is going to rule.
From 6 Ways To Be A Better Friend To A Disabled Person: It may sometimes seem like disabled people make awkward situations worse by always interpreting people’s words and actions negatively. It may be tempting to think that you can improve a disabled friend or...
People don't realize I no longer much have that feeling where I have good feelings to cap off something challenging I did. For example I don't have that clean feeling after taking a shower. And when I do hard volunteer work I often don't have the feeling of...
People don't understand that if you don't teach the unwritten rules people (especially those of us on the spectrum) are going to learn them the hard way. The more of a struggle learning something the more you retain and obsess over it. If someone had gently told me...
Adelle has a song "Someone Like You" that has the line "And that you'd be reminded that for me, it isn't over". That song is her not being able to get over a guy but I think it applies to people like me who don't have the machinery to forgive. I like to say time heals...
I'm starting to see why some people can be Christian while others can't. I think a lot of it comes down to brain power. Brain power is something separate from intelligence, brain power is more about how you can organize your mind to get what you want out of it,...
Below is a list of autism books reviewed by Sarah from The Realistic Autistic https://bookshop.org/wishlists/b56125663808587297e04ec30fa73fe90ec2418e