Okay, so here goes..I don’t know why I feel so nervous writing this out, but I’m just gonna persevere… [This feels scarier than putting my name & face to my previously anonymous blog!] To give a bit of context, most of you who have been here for a while know that I was professionally identified […]| …i am my own experience…
Hope you’re all maintaining some semblance of calm and sanity among this surreal time we’re all living through. As it’s Autism Week, I wrote my first piece for NeuroClastic, offering my brief musings on the difference between “awareness” versus “acceptance”. Check out the blog here: https://neuroclastic.com/2020/03/30/musings-awareness-vs-acceptance/| …i am my own experience…
When you scratch the surface of all autistic advocates, an indelible layer of trauma exists from our early lives, whether we were professionally identified in childhood, adolescence or not until adulthood. Whether the trauma is caused by inadvertent behavioural conditioning from our parents & teachers, abuse in its many varieties (physical, verbal, psychological, etc.), failed […]| …i am my own experience…
Originally posted on Understanding Autistics: I hope my message comes across properly. I spent 20 minutes writing this before going to sleep because I really needed to get it off my chest. Around this time 6 months ago, I was at my student house on my own as everyone else had gone home for Christmas.…| …i am my own experience…
I have a lot to say, but I don’t always know how to say it. I have a lot to say, but I don’t know if you will understand me. I have a lot to say, but I can’t get the words out. I want to scream, but you’ll say that I’m being dramatic, that […]| …i am my own experience…
Originally posted on vennpete: So, last night I watched a great video chat between Kate from the I Am My Own Experience blog and Kieran from The Autistic Advocate blog, about autism, masking and burnout. So I wanted to explore some thoughts around the #TakeTheMaskOff campaign. I think most autistic people would agree that the…| …i am my own experience…
I’ve loved music as long as I can remember… from singing along to “Shout” by Tears for Fears on MTV before I could properly talk to stim-listening to the same Manic Street Preachers song repeatedly, music has featured in my life in one way, shape or form. My first ever concert experience was 25 years […]| …i am my own experience…
Originally posted on Autism & Oughtisms: I just read a post under the irritating title of “Why we’re all on the Autism Spectrum.” I went in expecting something a lot worse than what I found: I thought I was going to encounter someone trying to claim we’re all actually on the autism spectrum to some…| …i am my own experience…
It’s kind of like that saying, “you can’t un-ring a bell.” Once you know you’re autistic, it’s nigh on impossible to go back to what your life was like before having that knowledge. That is why it’…| ...i am my own experience...
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