Just 1 Voice

I am just 1 voice among many..

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I need to tell you something and I need you to stay with me even if your first instinct is to get defensive. Because I'm not coming at you. I'm not coming at anyone. I'm coming from the middle of something that I think is breaking the autism community apart in ways that are actively hurting the kids everyone claims to be fighting for. Here's my particular position in this conversation: I am autistic. I am also the parent of an autistic child. I am, simultaneously, the adult that some parents dismiss as "not like my child" and the parent navigating the exact #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/autism/dear-autism-parents-the-autistic-adults-youre-arguing-with-online-are-your-childs-future-maybe-listen-to-them/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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A few weeks ago, a client of mine forwarded me an email with one line: "Can you look into this?" Attached was a letter that looked, at first glance, like something you'd want to take seriously. It cited a California statute. It had #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on August 7th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/08/vivek-shah-cipa-demand-letter-how-i-spent-weeks-investigating-it-and-everything-i-found/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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Let me describe someone to you. They're smart — often very smart. Socially perceptive in ways that surprise people. Creative. Funny. When things are good, they're genuinely magnetic. And then a demand enters the picture. Not a big demand. Sometimes the smallest thing — put your shoes on, it's time to eat, can you just— and something shifts. The resistance that comes up isn't attitude. It isn't stubbornness. It isn't a power play. From the inside, it feels like every cell in their body is recoiling. Like their nervous system has slammed a door. Like compliance — #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/pda-is-not-a-behavior-problem-stop-treating-it-like-one/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I use video games as a tool for dealing with the stresses of real life, except modern games are becoming grayer and a source of stress themselves. #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on July 19th, 2015 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2015/07/video-game-escapism-the-best-medication-for-anxiety/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I want to tell you about a specific feeling. Not the Friday-night-with-nowhere-to-be kind of lonely. Not the moved-to-a-new-city-and-don't-know-anyone kind. Those kinds of loneliness are real and they're hard, but they at least make sense to other people when you describe them. Someone can look at your situation and understand why you'd feel that way. The loneliness I'm talking about doesn't make sense on paper. It lives inside full lives. Inside long marriages and close families and friendships that have lasted decades. It shows up in the middle of birthday #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/autism-loneliness-and-depression/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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Someone asked me recently what my favorite movie was. Simple question. The kind people ask at parties, on first dates, in the awkward silences between more important conversations. The kind that has an easy answer if you're a person who knows yourself. I didn't have one. And it wasn't that I couldn't think of one in the moment, or that I'd seen too many to pick. It was that when I actually sat with the question — really sat with it, tried to locate an honest answer somewhere in myself — I realized I'd spent so #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/who-were-you-before-you-learned-to-disappear-autism-masking-and-the-long-work-of-finding-yourself/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I want to start this post by saying something that might seem counterproductive coming from a web designer: Don't let big companies fool you into thinking a website automatically costs $5,000. I mean it. I have this on my own website. I will say it to your face in a free consultation without flinching. Because I think the most valuable thing I can do for #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on July 17th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/07/your-website-does-not-cost-5000-heres-an-honest-breakdown-of-what-websites-actually-cost-and-why/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I had a very specific idea of what an advocate looked like. Confident. Articulate in the moment — not just in their head on the drive home. Organized. Not visibly afraid. The kind of person who could walk into a room full of people who disagreed with them, say the thing that needed to be said, and hold the floor without their voice shaking.Someone who had, at some point, figured it out. Who had processed enough of the hard stuff to be able to talk about it from a place of solid ground instead of from the middle of the #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/i-used-to-think-advocacy-was-for-people-who-had-it-together/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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Need to delete WordPress CRON job in PHP, so do I use wp_unschedule_hook, wp_clear_scheduled_hook, or wp_unschedule_event? Find out here! #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on February 16th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/02/wp_unschedule_hook-vs-wp_clear_scheduled_hook-vs-wp_unschedule_event/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I'm going to tell you something that will make this topic make more sense than any legal compliance framing ever has: About 1 in 4 adults in the United States has some kind of disability. Many of those disabilities affect how people interact with the internet. If your website isn't accessible, you are excluding roughly 25% of your potential audience. Not intentionally. Not maliciously. But effectively. That's not a small margin. In what other context #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on July 2nd, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/07/the-quiet-way-your-website-is-excluding-people-why-website-accessibility-is-good-for-business/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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America is turning 250 years old. Two hundred and fifty years of being a country. Two hundred and fifty years of the founding story — the one where a group of people looked at a king, looked at each other, and collectively decided: no. Not here. Not us. Not anymore. It's a good story. I genuinely like parts of it. The audacity of it. The nerve it took to put certain words on paper and then sign your actual name to them. The problem — and there is always a problem when you look at American history honestly — is that the freedom story was never meant for #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/advocacy/no-kings-then-no-kings-now-what-americas-250th-birthday-means-when-youre-the-person-theyre-legislating-against/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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Okay, I'm going to talk to a very specific person right now and that's The Neurodivergent Business Owner's. You're running your own business. You're doing it while also managing a brain that works a little differently from the one most business advice seems to be written for. The executive function challenges are real. The inconsistent energy is real. The "I was on top of everything last week and this week I cannot open my laptop" cycle is real. And somewhere in the #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on June 23rd, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/06/the-neurodivergent-business-owners-guide-to-having-a-website-that-doesnt-exhaust-you-to-maintain/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I want to preface this by acknowledging the deeply ridiculous nature of what I'm about to say. I am a web developer. Building websites is literally what I do for a living. I have been doing it for over a decade. I have opinions about WordPress plugins the way some people have opinions about sports teams and I once spent an afternoon genuinely excited about a #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on June 12th, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/06/when-to-hire-a-web-designer/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I want to be careful here, because this could easily turn into a sales pitch, and that's not what this is. The honest truth is that for some people, Wix or Squarespace is the right call. A brand new solo freelancer with tight cash flow and a limited set of needs can get something functional up fast without spending money they don't have, and that's legitimate. But for a lot of small business owners, the math on DIY web building is quietly terrible. It just doesn't look terrible at #WordPressExpert #RepublishedAutomatically Originally published on June 3rd, 2026 https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2026/06/no-website-in-2026-heres-exactly-what-youre-losing-without-knowing-it/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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I need you to try something with me for a second. Imagine you're in a restaurant. Decent place. Not too loud. You're having a conversation with someone you like, and the food is good. Normal evening. Now imagine that at the same volume you're speaking to your friend, you can also hear — equally clearly, equally loudly — every conversation at every table within twenty feet. The kitchen. The music overhead. The person three tables over chewing. The hum of the lighting. The specific creak the server's shoes make on the #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/autism/autism-sensory-processing-explained-sensory-overload-autism-what-sensory-sensitivity-feels-like-autistic-sensory-experience-sensory-processing-disorder-autism-why-autistic-people-cant-ignore-sen/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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We have always praised children who make adults comfortable. The ones who sat still. Who didn't make a fuss. Who said "please" and "thank you" without being reminded. They never caused a scene and were, in the language adults used for children they prefer, good. Good. What a thing to reduce a child to. What an absence of everything that #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/autism-misconceptions-you-dont-look-autistic-people-pleasing-roots-high-masking-autism-late-autism-diagnosis-adult-autism-and-intelligence-neurodivergent-experience-autism-microaggressions/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive

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Stop thinking about the autistic person's observable behavior and start thinking about their cognition in this presentation by Oswin Latimer. #RepublishedAutomatically https://just1voice.com/neurodiversity/understanding-autistic-cognition/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=revive