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Autism: A Love Story
Autism: A LoveĀ Story
It has been a long semester guys, the most writing-heavy one so far. And as you all can see, it has caused a huge disruption in my posting schedule. However, for my Feature Journalism class, I was given an opportunity to write a paper that ended up turning into a profile of my relationship with Jess, through the lens of autism. Iām really proud of the way it turned out, and my professor lovedā¦
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7 Awesome Things About the Pupper Being 1
7 Awesome Things About the Pupper BeingĀ 1
Nothing can prepare you for a puppy. Iām an obsessive researcher, I thought I knew everything there was to know and that I was totally prepared to be a dog parent.
Let me admit right now how arrogantly wrong I was.
Winnie was 12 pounds of crazy. Potty training, teething, exercise, all of this was frustrating and exhausting, and on top of it all, the pupper didnāt even seem to like me that much.ā¦
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The Pain Scale
āAnd can you rate your pain on a scale of 1-10?ā
I donāt know about you, but for me, this scale is not useful AT ALL. Iāve gotta tell you that the yellow face looks more constipated than in pain, and the utter horrible face seems more like heās upset that his flight got canceled and heās going to have to eat at Chileās.
Iāve been thinking about pain a lot recently, mostly because Iāve beenā¦
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5 Things That Determine Your Professionalism (apparently)
5 Things That Determine Your ProfessionalismĀ (apparently)
It seems to be a torturous right of passage to make college students go to a job fair. It is my worst nightmare to have to talk to people who could affect my education while they judge me as a person and as an employee from a 3-minute discussion.
Iāve found that for the most part, my classmates donāt really agree with me. The anxious kids are generally on my side, and sometimes otherā¦
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Ready, Set, Goals!
For most of my life, āgoalsā has been a 4 letter word. Now, I am fully aware that āgoalsā has 5 letters, but it might as well have been āfuckā or āshitā or ātwat-waffleā (which also doesnāt have 4 letters) because goal setting is not something that I have the ability to do.
I donāt know about you, but in every grade from middle school up, the school provided a planner, which we were justā¦
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6 ASL Signs For Autistic Folks
6 ASL Signs For AutisticĀ Folks
Because Jess and I really need one more thing to do *sarcasm* weāre learning American Sign Language (ASL) together. When you think about it, itās very practical. When Iām having a nonverbal moment, or hour, or day, we can communicate like usual. We also wonāt know for a few years if my hearing loss will progress, so learning ASL now is ideal.
I will say right up front, that signing is definitelyā¦
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5 Summer Reading Books
5 Summer ReadingĀ Books
One of the great things about living in the future is that you donāt ever have to leave the house if you donāt want to. I can log my summer reading books online, and I can even report my participation in the libraryās reading challenges!
(the library systems here make summer reading more interesting by giving extra prizes by doing things like reading books by authors whose race, gender, or sexualā¦
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Itās The Little Things
Itās The LittleĀ Things
Theory of Mind is a weird thing. A couple of years ago, I didnāt even know it was a thing at all, and now I see it everywhere. This is mostly a good thing. Pre-autism diagnosis, I wasā¦letās call it āconfusedā a lot. Mostly because people kept doing things that seemed completely irrational. It surprises a lot of people, but it never even occurred to me that other people might think or feelā¦
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10 Quotes From My Notebook
10 Quotes From MyĀ Notebook
I like to think of myself as a child of the digital age. I was born alongside the home computer and came of age with the internet. Damnit, I could type before I could write!
Thereās no arguing though, I am old fashioned about some stuff, most of them involving reading and writing. I have a Kindle, and I love it, mostly because it means I can get library books from the couch in my PJs. Yet, if Iā¦
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How Autism Fucked With My Mental Health
How Autism Fucked With My MentalĀ Health
Announcement: I was in a really bad mood when I came up with this title. Iāve been turning an idea over in my head. I wanted to write about the intersection between autism and mental health and how itās affected me personally. It sounded like a professional topic. And then I had to get pissed off and name it something petty.
Pettiness asideā¦
My therapist and I are taking this summer to do a bitā¦
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6 Essential Self Care Things
6 Essential Self CareĀ Things
It seems as though I never think about doing self-care until itās too late. Let me explain, at this point in my life I find the act of self-care pretty instinctual, and when Iām doing alright, I rarely have to think about it. Itās when my mood starts creeping downwards and my anxiety heckles raise, aka the exact time when I need self-care, I forget to do it.
Luckily, over the years Iāve developedā¦
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Why Am I Here?
Why Am IĀ Here?
No seriously, do you know why Iām in the kitchen? Because I donāt.
I may joke about a lot about being old, itās mostly a product of having spent the past few years mostly surrounded by people who are 5+ years younger than me. On one hand, this is great, I get to keep up with whatās new and popular, but on the other hand, people tend to assume that Iām about 22. Itās flattering (I think).
I knowā¦
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5 Summer Hacks For Autistic Folks
5 Summer Hacks For AutisticĀ Folks
Summer is here! The exclamation point is less about excitement and more about alarm. Donāt get me wrong, there are good things about summer, like smores and fresh berries and corn on the cob (how have I never noticed that my favorite parts of summer are food?) But at least to me, the downsides of summer outweigh the good stuff.
Iāve spent 30 summers on this earth so far, and I like to think thatā¦
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Bored Equals Crabby
Jess visibly cringes every time I utter the words āIām boredā. Iām not positive if itās an autism thing or not, but being bored makes me downright crabby. And if Iām suffering, everyone ends up suffering (this makes me sound evil, I promise Iām not).
Iām out of school for the summer. I didnāt end up taking summer classes because a: there werenāt any that were super useful for my graduation plan,ā¦
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7 Recent Pictures and 1 Video
7 Recent Pictures and 1Ā Video
In the era of smartphones that have better lenses from my old Nikon, I, like many other millennials have a phone jam packed full of pictures. And for me at least, there are usually like 5 shots that areĀ almost the same but not quite.
Since I have approximately 1200 pictures on my person at any given time, I made an effort to go in periodically and clean the copies out. In doing this I get toā¦
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T. T. Testosterone
About a year ago (almost exactly), I made a big announcement here, do yāall remember?
If not, hereās a brief recap: I very excitedly revealed that because of the gender dysphoria that I had been experiencing, I was making the big decision to have Gender Affirming Surgery, aka Top Surgery. I think I said something like āholy shit, no more titsā. That sounds like something I would do, right?
Well,ā¦
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5 things I learned from ACT therapy
5 things I learned from ACTĀ therapy
Once upon a time, there was a human named Meesh, who didnāt know that ignoring their mental health could end in disaster. They hid their worsening issues from everyone, including themselves.
The details arenāt important, but needless to say, they ended up in a place that was so unstable, they couldnāt fix it themselves, and ended up in something called Higher Level Care, which involved spendingā¦
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