How did I find out I am autistic?
When I started to look into the possibility of getting an autism diagnosis, I came across many accounts of AFAB (assigned female at birth) people who had been assessed for ASD later in life. I say AFAB here as it’s more inclusive; I myself identify as non-binary (as do many autistic people) and so beingContinue reading “How did I find out I am autistic?”
Time for an infodump
Who wants a rabbit related infodump?
executive dysfunction: the musical
I am writing this sitting on my sofa in my pyjamas at 7pm on a Monday evening. I have not gotten dressed today. I have not ticked off any of my tasks today. I have alternated between scrolling through tiktok and Instagram all day with some periodic wall-staring-into-the-middle-distance to spice things up a little. IContinue reading “executive dysfunction: the musical”
‘But you’re high-functioning, right?’
High-functioning autism is a misnomer. But where does it come from? What does autism as a spectrum really mean for autistic people?
Autism and Death
Up until this year, I had been fortunate not to have been touched by death. Yes, there is a dead rabbit buried in my landlord’s garden (I will tell her at some point), and that was incredibly difficult, but human deaths are different. Family and found-family deaths, particularly right now under Covid, are the oneContinue reading “Autism and Death”
Why will no one pay me to read fantasy fiction, and other questions I want to ask this government
I guess one of the stereotypical tropes about Autism is special interests. As I say to almost everyone in my process of ‘coming out’ as autistic, people tend to imagine someone with autism as a little boy who is obsessed with trains. It took me a long time to realise that my own ‘special interests’Continue reading “Why will no one pay me to read fantasy fiction, and other questions I want to ask this government”
Hyperlexia and the Art of “Suttlety”
So like many “high functioning” autistic people (I’ll talk about why I hate that term at some point) I am hyperlexic. This essentially means that I learned how to read before I learned how to speak. Autistic brains love patterns and words are some of the most well-known patterns there are. Whilst spoken words oftenContinue reading “Hyperlexia and the Art of “Suttlety””
How to help your friendly neighbourhood autistic come out of lockdown
How to support an autistic person coming out of lockdown
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