Tag: autistic adults
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Not Tolerated
In a world that treats me like I just wandered in from nowhere, “a bit off” but tolerated…. When I first read this quote by Dr. Hendricks, my heart screamed YES, but as an adult I don’t feel tolerated by most. NOT including the ‘online world’ I am just here. I’m ignored, which is often…
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Do no harm
Trigger warning: medical trauma (I don’t usually do trigger warnings on here for a couple of reasons: 1. I don’t think about it because this is an obviously personal blog that is not about recipes and rainbows. 2. From personal experience, I know anything can be traumatic and I can’t do a warning for everything.…
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Neurodivergent – Not just a buzz word
Well, it is for many and it’s so annoying. This can happen to anything. Dress things up by saying neurodivergent. Not autistic. You are neurodivergent. Let me be clear the people who created and started using ND before 2010 or 2015 aren’t to “blame.” Even I wouldn’t have guessed that this would happen. But I…
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Can’t Ride a Bicycle
They are living in poverty and in jobs that they are constantly on the edge of losing due to coworker conflict and social blindness. Their nerves are frayed, but they can’t afford time off to recover from burnout. The demands of daily life and caring for families, combined with a grueling work schedule, lead them…
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It’s Not You…It’s Them
From Autistic Adults are Not Okay by Victoria Lin Tanner When getting any kind of assessment for mental health – while being autistic. …That you failed to demonstrate the full range of your struggles over a short window of observation, or that the anxiety building up to this moment temporarily blocked you from expressing what…
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You Don’t Want This
Where do I start? It depends on the day. We have enough people who are willing to talk about kids eating lunch, dogs getting adopted and other common things. There’s not enough being done in every state or country of the world, but enough people CARE. People don’t care about disabled people (especially when it’s…
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