I had to apply to work at a call center again, I dreaded that job the first time I did it but I really need the money 
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The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery
2025-08-22
Sol Smith/gain the skills to function and flourish as an autistic adult
This resource describes who the Empath is and how Empaths can take care of themselves.
Staying Present Through Difficult Times
2025-07-22
When autistic struggles are upsetting, lean into the struggles and don't avoid them.
Self-Advocacy Guide for Cancer Patients
series of videos for the newly diagnosed
Reframing Autism’s ‘Welcome Pack’
2024-04-17
An empowering resource to support those who discover they are Autistic later in life.
Masking
2024-04-05
article, National Autism Society UK,
Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024
2024-03-28
online series of talks on different aspects of neurodiversity
Latest blog entries
As I lie awake unable to sleep. Pain dripping over the right side of my body. I say dripping because it feels like my body has been drenched in a vat of corroded battery acid. You know that burning feeling your skin gets when you touch it? The pain that goes to your bone if you hang onto it...
🌈 What Neurodiversity Means to Me
Neurodiversity isn’t just a concept I believe in—it’s the lens through which I now see the world. It’s the rhythm of my son’s footsteps as he paces to self-soothe. It’s the way he lines up his toys with precision, creating order in a world that often feels...
Lay awake. Head pounding from the pressurr.in my brain. Unable to sleep. A tilt of my head and the pressure send a violent pain through my head and a black cloud into my eyes. What to watch? For some reason I find comfort in watching shows on serial killers. Maybe atleast I escaped my predator...
I recently started EMDR. Many years I have heard of this treatment through my therapist. Thinking to myself, it seemed a bit hokey to me. So I researched. Finally, after my speech had been lost from a brain injury and my right side of my body impaired it was suggested that to fix all my...
To start off. I am feeling quite a bit better. Though I have a hard fight ahead.
This fight is me ending my suppression of my own psychosis and other things like my emotions and thoughts. I have to just let go. But also face my thoughts and feelings. Not run from them. And I have been trying...
I forget. Constantly. I forget. He is gone. I tried to call my daddy the other day., more than once. To me he isnt gone. He is still here. I keep calling him and asking for him. Everytime I shut my eyes it is a reset and I think he is alive again. I never said goodbye to him. He is here. Asking...
Adoration
To lean gently upon him awhile
To take his hand, his counsel
To rest one happy moment with him
To release a hundred meaningless concerns
To be still and to be quiet
To listen into the Void
To learn of a thousand things
Never heard before
Legion
There is a part of me that identifies with Legion. Like me on my pathway of becoming, Legion also becomes someone else, something both less and also more. After Legion is set free, is made healthy and whole, Legion is in his right mind. Legion’s internal and personal, demonic tormenters...
Being Is A Noun
Doing is work.
Doing is a verb.
Being is a noun.
Being is not doing.
Being requires no effort.
Being requires no exertion.
Being requires nothing.
Being just is.
But it’s really not.
Because
Being is a noun
Not an is.
What’s interesting is
A human being----see?
This thing about...
Autism and Social Relationships
I used to think certain people were my friends, even though the only time they ever communicated with me was when they wanted me to do something for them. It took me a really long time to understand that I wasn't really a friend to them...just a means to an end...
Latest profile posts
Being tired from work is almost refreshing compared to fatigue from mental stuff. This is very strange; it is a gentle stressfree rest that is not like fatigue.
The line between good and evil runs through the human heart. -Aleksandr Solzhenistiyn, Soviet dissident (greatly paraphrased)
There is something infinitely exciting about getting a planner for the new year. I love how it sits there on my bookshelf and reminds me that at least a few parts of life are ordered and settled.
Been bisy a bee working on my Etsy page The Awkward Elephant Craft Studio. Looking for some insight and constructive feedback so if you're bored, maybe have a shop of your own and want to check it out https://theawkwardelephant.etsy.com Been trying to busy my brain away from the pain from my TBI and keep the focus on positive things like sewing 
