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Recently, I asked my son to take his night meds, and his nervous system disability activated his fight-or-flight response. He pushed me, I fell, and then he hit and scratched, leaving red marks on my arms and chest.
Later that night, he texted to start the repair process, but I wasn’t ready. The wounds were too fresh, both on my body and in my heart.
The attack ...
Content note: This essay discusses suicide.
“It’s really dark in here,” my frowning boss told me the moment she came into my office. She knows I’m autistic; I’ve been here for three years. We also work in an industry that claims to know about autism, and to support autistic people.
I could only shrug, too tired and overstimulated to explain. Wha...
A lot of times now when parents of newly identified autistic kids ask me what they should know, the first thing I say is:
“We get tired.”
This is so important. The way we autistics process is often on hyperdrive. The activities that are like strolling for many allistic people are like sprinting for us. We need rest, more frequently and in greate...
Autistic writer Fergus Murray’s Growing Up With Monotropism and Weird Pride is a crucial part of the brand-new autistic non-fiction anthology Someone Like Me. Murray’s chapter is part technical primer, part auto-ethnog...
Note: This article discusses rape and abuse.
I remember the shock when I realized that my ex had raped me. And that it had taken me nearly two years to the day to realize that what had transpired that evening had been rape. I had always been uncomfortable about what had happened. But it’s not like I had said “no” so it couldn’t have been that bad, righ...
