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As a late-identified autistic adult, I’m late to the table on autism. Even as a graduate student in school for mental health counseling, I learned very little about autism. So when my therapist suggested to me I might be autistic, I did a deep, deep dive on autism.
Turns out, that’s very common for autistics. We want to fully understand and that means researching in our favorite mode of self-education. For me, that’s reading books and listening to podcasts.
We then have to process and integrate that new information in ways that work for us. For me, that means writing. I write a lot about autism (over 150 essays thus far), and there are still so many more things I want to write about autism.
Here are all of the topics I still want to write about:
Healing from a family of unidentified autistics
What exactly do you do as an autistic art therapist?
I’m not an investigative reporter on autism
A letter to hating laundry
Autistic writing - the joy of communicating and being understood
Research and autism
Desperate for something that’s never going to happen
Things needing to be said the right way to click
Common misjudgments of autistic: pissy
Getting characterized as the crazy bitch
Why art therapy for autistics
Do I need to get a diagnosis for autism?
How to know it’s time for therapy when you’re autistic
How therapy can help you see new aspects of your autistic self
The health and well being of an autistic mind
Nest construction
I live by different standards/norms
The trauma of trying
A second chance in life
We can adapt
Trauma can’t be healed until we recognize autism as the source
Giving ourselves some slack as autistics
Not treatment, but understanding
No longer an existential dread
Brutal honesty
Passing for normal
We don’t need 8 hours, redefining productivity
What works best for your biology
You may never hit the same level of productivity again
How autism can impact the holidays
Autistics throw ourselves in because of connection
I’m sharing the experience of being smart and autistic
Are we gifted because we’ve had so much practice masking?
Preparing for travel
Square peg gets damaged trying to fit into round hole
Constellation things
Adaptations or Accommodations people want
Shame of others witnessing detours
Strategies for autism
What I wear as an autistic
My fat list of autism characteristics
Friendships being hard in the middle range
Cultural bullshit: push yourself outside your comfort zone
Cringeworthy autism education
What if it is neurotypicals who need better theory of mind
Let it be multi-layered and complex: what I say does not apply
Autism and level of preference
Why feeling you’re too sensitive is exhausting
When overwhelmed: tell me what to do
Stigma of autism
Anxiety after never being accepted
I am you, just a little more extreme
Autism and being more connected to earth energy
When someone else defines your growth or wellbeing
Stop mandatory participation
“But Everyone Feels That Way” as a form of gaslighting autism
My autistic brain helped me out of religion
What if autistics are meant to be the norm
How do people on the spectrum differ
Autism and shifting narratives
“I can never get it right”
Ways to make life more enjoyable
Autistic services I want
Distress tolerance
How I learned I’m autistic
Letter to accommodations
Things I want to exist
Dislike of cultural sayings
Wait… are all my friends autistic too?
Really intense feeler
Autistic people having lots of diagnoses in the past
My fellow autistics: different and the same
Who should you tell about autism?
Autism means more to my identity than ADHD
Window of tolerance
Don’t tell my autistic mind what to think
Autism is no longer what you think it is
What is listening from an autistic perspective
How do you find friends
What can be fixed and what cannot
Spotify playlist for dealing with difficulties
Gift giving for autistics
A conversation versus many conversations
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