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Happy One Decade to Me!

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 ~ Mamautistic ~ Leave a comment

Ten years ago (in January) my then-boss and still-friend told me that I should look into the possibility of being Autistic. Ten years ago (in March or so) my then-boss/still-friend sent me a link to take the Aspie Quiz and I scored quite high on the being Autistic side of things. And now it has … Continue reading Happy One Decade to Me!

Volunteering, Work, and Self-Care

February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 ~ Mamautistic ~ Leave a comment

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted anything! To start off, here is a brief autism disclosure story because disclosing that I'm Autistic is essential for my wellbeing when I do any sort of work outside of my house: A few years ago I was volunteering at a large event and I told a … Continue reading Volunteering, Work, and Self-Care

Nearly a Month

April 16, 2019April 15, 2019 ~ Mamautistic ~ Leave a comment

I'm still untangling some things, working through some others. My words come and go. April is always a bit rough for awareness reasons. But this April I'm figuring things out, untangling my life. I'm reading so many great books that I need to write reviews for very soon! My interests, family, and friends are constant … Continue reading Nearly a Month

Thank You for Everything

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 ~ Mamautistic ~ 4 Comments

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who kept me on this plane of existence over the last few months. You ALL are priceless to me ❤ Some of you don't even know I exist (Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa, whose podcast Gaslit Nation helped me initially realize that I had been gaslit all … Continue reading Thank You for Everything

Broken But Building Back

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 ~ Mamautistic ~ 2 Comments

My words are starting to return a little bit. It's been months. Goodness only knows how long it'll take for them to be back to any kind of "normal" (for me) level. I think I wrote the quoted bit below about being wordless around a week ago. ____________________________ It's funny how wonky time goes. Buried, … Continue reading Broken But Building Back

Internalized Ableism, Others, and Reassurances

November 17, 2018 ~ Mamautistic ~ 15 Comments

Honestly, I've not given all that much thought to internalized ableism. I've read about it, yes. I've even written a little bit about it, but it has never topped my list of "things I need to personally work on." Until now. It has, rather abruptly, come to my attention that I have internalized way more … Continue reading Internalized Ableism, Others, and Reassurances

Just Do It! Or Not.

October 5, 2018 ~ Mamautistic ~ Leave a comment

There's a lot of motivational speak out there that encourages just doing the thing (usually it's the exercise-related ones I see most often) if you don't want to. Generally speaking, that's probably good advice. I don't often want to do various things around the house or to take care of myself, but life is generally … Continue reading Just Do It! Or Not.

How (Not) to Disappear

June 12, 2018 ~ Mamautistic ~ Leave a comment

Disappearing is a word that is used, primarily by my local circle of friends, to describe when one of us stops communicating for a while and stops visiting social media either mostly or completely. We've all done it from time to time, some more than others and each to varying degrees. So what does this … Continue reading How (Not) to Disappear

Communication is Hard

May 31, 2018June 2, 2018 ~ Mamautistic ~ 3 Comments

In going through my saved links recently for a different post, I came across this post from Cynthia Kim --Echolalia and Scripting: Straddling the Border of Functional Language. I've read it before, of course, that's why it's in my saved links; but today this quote from it felt really familiar. It describes a recent experience … Continue reading Communication is Hard

Emotional Containment Failure

April 17, 2018 ~ Mamautistic ~ 2 Comments

I usually can't name my emotions. This is not an optimal thing, of course, because emotions can affect all kinds of things and it's difficult to control or understand such things when I'm unaware of what they even are. So I somehow developed a containment system over the years. I have this ability to lock … Continue reading Emotional Containment Failure

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Autistically Unschooling

Autistic Adventures in Unschooling!

PEACE I GIVE

A Peaceful Parenting Blog

Verity Reynolds

humans are weird

Semiotic Spectrumite

yarn and pencil

a creative life on the spectrum

canadianautisticeducator.wordpress.com/

Ballastexistenz

Laina's Collection

Sharing Aspergian/Autistic Writing and Perspective

The Participatory Autism Research Collective

A community for people who want to promote autistic involvement in autism research

Finally Knowing Me: An Autistic Life

Counting the Ways

How am I autistic? Let me count the ways

AutieFortyAndFAB

Eclectic Autistic

Days in the life of an adult on the spectrum

lauren smith-donohoe

tired mom person trying to write a book in a house with a baby, toddler, teen, and a menagerie

that Bloody Cat

Love and chaos deep in the Midwest

Blinkie Frustrations

Ramblings in the darkness

The Bullshit Fairy

Neurodivergent Rebel

Rebelling against a culture that values assimilation over individuality.

Soapbox

Social Media Production, Training and Consultation

A Little Off the Mark

the day to day life of an autistic woman

mum2aspergirl goes back to school

Charting the experiences of autistic girls in and out of mainstream education

Faith and Food

The personal reflections and practical discoveries of a diagnosed autistic celiac

Neurodivergent Nicole

Autistic Ultra

The long haul of the spectrum

In So Many Words

Everyday Autistic

Life through the eyes of an autistic

the silent wave

life through one female Asperger's lens

The Misadventures of Mama Pineapple

Social awkwardness, flights of fancy, uncontrollable urges to dance...the life and times of one adult-diagnosed autistic woman.

Yes, That Too

I'm an Autistic mama blogging about memories and life.

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)

Neurodiversity is for Everyone ™

Ollibean

I'm an Autistic mama blogging about memories and life.

Unstrange Mind

I'm an Autistic mama blogging about memories and life.

The other side

Blogging on autism and art.

crippledscholar

Autistic Academic

Musings of an Aspie

one woman's thoughts about life on the spectrum

Autism and Expectations

De-Mystifying Autism

Seventh Voice

Simply my take on living life as a female with Asperger's Syndrome.

Mamautistic

I'm an Autistic mama blogging about memories and life.

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