April is, as I’m sure you’ve been told repeatedly since February, Autism Awareness/Acceptance/Appreciation Month. What you may not know is that April is also National Poetry Month. So this April, I’m going to spread Autism…all the things….through poetry. I’ll link the poems below as I write them. Poem 1: Unhappy Hands Poem 2: I Know… Continue reading Autism Acceptance Poetry Month Masterlist
Several really awesome advocates in the autistic community have come up with a content creation challenge centering around the hashtag #TakeTheMaskOff. The content that is created during the challenge will (hopefully) better explain what the “Mask” is and why we seek to “Take It Off” (and why we’re wearing it in the first place), but,… Continue reading #TakeTheMaskOff Masterpost
Someone posted this ausome list of post/blog topics for Autistic Acceptance Month (which starts today!) on a Facebook Group that I’m in: Autistic Acceptance Month 20 Days of Acceptance And Appreciation Day 1: Intro Post [a.k.a. the post you’re looking at now] Day 2: What I Love About Being Autistic Is… Day 3: My Diagnosis… Continue reading Autistic Acceptance Month Day 1: Intro and Article List
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When someone close to us dies of self-inflicted means, we’re often left to ask ourselves if we showed them enough love. Should our last words to them have been kinder and gentler? Should we have kept them on the phone a little longer, reached out to them a little more, smiled at them and hugged… Continue reading You Can’t Love Someone Out Of Suicide
One of my biggest fears with coming out as nonbinary is that the people I care the most about would either laugh it off or tell me that it isn’t “a real thing.” It’s one thing if I can’t get the conservatives and elders in my family to use “they/them” pronouns — it’d be nice, but it’s meh, whatever. “She” is fine. But I very much don’t want to be disbelieved, belittled, made to feel like I don’t know what I’m talking about or that I’m “making things difficult.”
It’s hard to feel particularly proud of being who you are when you wake up from a dream about having a meltdown in a state of frazzle…and then proceed to have a meltdown over getting yourself and your fiancé ready for the day. It does not inspire much pride when you’ve been in a state… Continue reading Autistic Pride (For The Drained and Dismal)
To the parents, siblings, and family members who see their children in a new light, who choose to see the beauty, value, and worth not in spite of the autism but because of it, who allow their autistic children to be authentically autistic, To the educators who push aside the paradigm and make their classrooms… Continue reading AAM Poem #30: Thank You
I don’t know what tomorrow brings What new studies will tell About what causes this or that About new ways to be well, I don’t know what tomorrow brings What new things will we see And how soon we can come to see The way a child may be; I don’t know what tomorrow brings… Continue reading AAM Poem #29: I Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings
An echo resonates throughout the mind An echo resonates throughout the mind An echo resonates An echo resonates An echo resonates An echo An echo An echo An echo An echo replays and replays and replays An echo replays and replays and replays An echo resonates and replays and replays An echo resonates and replays… Continue reading AAM Poem #28: Repetitive Thoughts
If my child is autistic too, I will make sure there are safe spaces, silent spaces, in our home Where they can throw themselves down and throw off the dysregulation and overwhelm And not be stared at, shouted down, or fretted over; Worry I will, I’m sure, but I will give them pockets of isolation… Continue reading AAM #27: If My Child Is Autistic Too
Life is exhausting When everything overwhelms And it never stops; Life is exhausting And dizzying and painful And worth all of it.
Please visit autisticadvocacy.org/stoptheshock to learn more about what you can do to urge the FDA to release the ban on GED devices that they approved three years ago and finally, after way too long, #StopTheShock Electric pads on fragile skin Shock the nerves from deep within A backpack you must always wear While eyes are… Continue reading AAM Poem #25: Judge Rotenberg
The lights were loud When driving by The cars so fast The poles so high; The lights were loud In the exam room But there I sat To comfort you; The lights were loud When in the store We looked around Then looked some more; The lights were loud When driving back With lights blaring … Continue reading AAM Poem #24: On Being Romantic While Being Autistic
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