There’s so much noise in the world today. I’m not just talking about the noise generated by machines, or industry. I’m talking about the number of voices that scramble for our attention. The number of distractions that disconnect us from ourselves. As a person with autism, the world can often be overwhelming. We live inContinue reading “Fare New Horizons”
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Starlight and Sawdust
This post is a continuation of my series on emotion as an autistic INFJ. The aim of which is to raise awareness of the complicated matter of emotion and emotional processing when it comes to individuals like me. I know a lot of people are anxious and afraid right now. We live in times theContinue reading “Starlight and Sawdust”
What is a hero anyway?
Recently, I wrote a piece for this blog that I had been working on to help raise awareness and understanding about emotion, called Through the looking glass, and how dealing with it and processing it can be harder for a person with autism. This post is a continuation of that premise whereby I have triedContinue reading “What is a hero anyway?”
Through the looking glass
This is a piece about emotion, particularly the difficulty I have carrying the emotion and processing it within myself. It’s a common misconception that people with autism don’t have emotions because we may not be able to express them the same as neurotypicals do. As an adult with a more sensory based ASD and aContinue reading “Through the looking glass”