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Alexithymia: How Emotional Blindness Can Affect Every Aspect of Your Life

How alexithymia feels and manifests, and what can be done about it.

Dec 3, 2024

Alexithymia: How Emotional Blindness Can Affect Every Aspect of Your Life

Dec 3, 2024

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I Am Autistic, and I Want A “Cure”

In my personal experience, autism is a very painful condition that I would gladly have treated.

Nov 22, 2024

Artificially generated image that looks like a realistic depiction of a big empty beach, the sea and a blue sky with some white clouds. On the beach is a big glass jar closed with a lid, and a woman with long hair, a tank top and shorts is sitting inside. She is looking up at the sky.

Nov 22, 2024

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Autistic People Are Dying From Suicide. Does Anyone Care?

September is suicide prevention month. How can the suicide of autistic people be prevented?

Sep 8, 2024

Image saying “September is suicide prevention awareness month” in white writing onto a horizontally divided purple and blue background (with purple on the upper half). On the right side, there is a blue and purple ribbon.

Sep 8, 2024

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Society’s Taboo With Silence Is Destroying My Autistic Brain

Neurotypical society has a real phobia of silence, and autistic people pay a price for it.

Sep 5, 2024

Drawing of two people in black ink against white background. One is telling the other “Why are you so quiet?” The other’s face shows frustration at the question.

Sep 5, 2024

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Where is Race in Discussions About Autism?

Gender is being addressed in relation to autism, but what about race?

Sep 1, 2024

Picture of a sign against the background of the blue sky with some clouds, and a skycraper. The cardboard sign says in black ink: “Racism is a pandemic too”

Sep 1, 2024

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Am I a Person or Am I Just a Brain? On The Importance of Nuance in Neurodiversity

Going beyond the medical “deficit model” to reinstate autistic people as multidimensional subjects.

Aug 25, 2024

Colorful image of a drwaing on light yellow background, representing 5 intertwined faces coming from the same neck — the faces are red, dark blue, purple, light blue and orange, and they are arrangead all around the neck, looking both left and right. The top of the heads is “transparent”, making visible their intricate colorful brains inside — brains are drawn through small intertwined geometrical shapes, suggesting depth, complexity and creativity.

Aug 25, 2024

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Recovering From Autistic Burnout: You Can’t Do It Alone

Why I have taken the step of signing up for a structured burnout recovery program — giving myself the opportunity to get help.

Aug 23, 2024

Comic-style black dialogue box on white background, with the word “HELP!” written inside in red, with black contour.

Aug 23, 2024

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Neurotypical Spectrum Disorder

Diagnostic criteria:

Aug 18, 2024

A male, white, middle-aged doctor and a young white female patient sitting in front of one another around a desk in a bright, white room. The doctor, dressed in white, is showing an x-ray scan to the patient, and explaining the results.

Aug 18, 2024

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Parents of Autistic Kids: We Really Want You To Know This

A message from an autistic person to parents of autistic children.

Aug 18, 2024

A Black father holding a baby inside a house, both looking in the same direction towards the right.

Aug 18, 2024

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As An Autistic Person, I Meet People Who Don’t Believe In My Existence

I went to see a physiotherapist, and I spent the entire session debating the legitmacy of my own existence.

Aug 17, 2024

The top part of a suit, shirt and a tie without a head on green background. Instead of the head, there is a circle, and inside the circle the words (in pink): “Spoiler alert: You don’t exist”.

Aug 17, 2024

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Andrea

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Reflections on the neurodivergent experience and social justice. May contain occasional madness and astral metaphors.

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