How to unmask, and where.
Unmasking is not one act. It is years of small choices about which parts of yourself you will stop hiding, in which...
Category:Experience
Unmasking is not one act. It is years of small choices about which parts of yourself you will stop hiding, in which...
Masking is the work of pretending to be a non-Autistic person. The eye contact you maintain, the voice you modulate, the laugh on...
A letter to the younger me. The exhaustion was not moral. The seam in the sock was real. Stims were the body...
Most diagnostic tools were built on observations of boys. Why so many Autistic women are diagnosed late, after years of wrong...
The world arrives at us differently. Not more, not less. The fluorescent light, the seam in the sock, the perfume three rows...
A shutdown is the nervous system going quiet from the inside. Why it gets missed, why it can be worse than a meltdown, what...
A meltdown is a nervous system in emergency, not a tantrum with a goal. Why the difference matters. What helps if you are...