An Update, For Anyone Curious (Therapy, Living As Nonbinary, Work, Skateboarding)
But I’ll be okay.
And for once, I actually believe it when I tell myself that.
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You Can’t Love Someone Out Of Suicide
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
I’m Nonbinary. Here’s Why That Took Me YEARS To Fully Accept.
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.”
Autistic Pride (For The Drained and Dismal)
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)
AAM Poem #30: Thank You
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
AAM Poem #29: I Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings
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
AAM Poem #28: Repetitive Thoughts
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
AAM #27: If My Child Is Autistic Too
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
AAM Poem #26: Perseverance
Life is exhausting When everything overwhelms And it never stops; Life is exhausting And dizzying and painful And worth all of it.
AAM Poem #25: Judge Rotenberg
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
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