A Time Capsule for Hindsight: The Value of Voice

If I could time-travel, but only use it once to go to a different time and once to go back, I would go back to August 31st, 1994, to a couple spending the first full day with their daughter. I would bring with me printed pages from this blog, along with everything I've ever written…

The Drive to Drive: A Brief Discussion

Last week, just a month short of 24, I got my driver's license. It's an exciting time for me. In the past few days I've been getting used to familiar routes from a new perspective; I can buy groceries without having to wait for my parents to be ready, I can make distances I usually…

The Other (other) A Word

I will go off-road for a moment to say that I normally do not advocate usage of terms like "high-functioning" and "low-functioning" for people. They oversimplify symptoms and difficulties that come with them, and attempt to sort people into boxes that almost no Autistic person can perfectly fit. But tonight I will use one, simply…

The Independent Experience 2

Camp, part 2: I attended Camp Akeela for three years, which is a large amount of time to compress into so many words. So for part 2, I wanted to write a sort of “Greatest Hits” summary – my favorite parts about being at camp, but also the parts that helped me grow in ways…

The Independent Experience: Part 1

So for the next few posts, I'm doing something a little different. Instead of covering my experiences in a general Autism-related topic, I'm going to be revisiting some old memories of mine and reflect on them from the perspective of an Autistic adult looking back on her childhood. I'm calling it the Independent Experience, because…