Autism makes for strange holidays
It's the end of the year again. Everyone's meeting up with their families, and I'm no exception. As important as it is to be interested in and interact with people,…
Autistic Political Correctness
I made a mistake today spending five minutes looking through Twitter and quickly found people arguing about whether autistic people should be referred to as people with autism or vice…
Autism is like noise-cancelling headphones for society
And being unable to hear all the noise Society is full of noise. Not actual noise you can hear, but rather social etiquettes and dress codes, as well as hierarchies…
Obligation to write
Forever as draft I've come to realise that writing because I feel like I have some kind of obligation to is a terrible motivation for writing. For the last few…
Thoughts on Autism – Masking
Preface I know not everyone can mask, but this is about my experience, and I can mask.Many people who write about autism have the tendency to try and speak for…
Some thoughts on Extraordinary Attorney Woo
There will be spoilers, please do not read if you want to avoid being spoiled. Irony? In the previous post, I discussed how fiction is just fiction and should be…
More thoughts on autism
This first part goes into the portrayal of autism and how it's typically perceived by others.
Autism doesn’t mean you can behave however you want
This post/rant goes into how certain autistic individuals have given autism a bad name.
Unsurprising news (ASD)
A change in approach For the longest time, I used to think that the way I thought about the world was as normal as it could get, and that all…