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Different, not less

Thinking in PicturesNeuro Tribes

This has been something that I’ve struggled with, feeling “less” or broken. There are times when it is so frustrating to be me, and I’ve had to work really hard to give myself a break. Nobody can kick me harder than me.

I spent most of my life with a diagnosis of depression, and had built, on my own, this mindset of failure. Every time I got depressed, I had failed. There was something wrong with me, something that only I could fix, but yet again I had failed to do so.

Getting the autism diagnosis allowed me to see that the depressions were a symptom, not the disease. And now I can see that there’s not something wrong with me, there’s something different. Getting to the point where I could accept this took a lot of work, but freeing myself from all of that negative energy has been worth it.

Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Steve Silberman, Avery, New York, New York, 2015.

We Noticed

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already. –Robert Anton Wilson

Should Be My Family’s Motto

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. –William James

Outward Writing Thinking

I’m apparently writing. I ate some food late, and while I was cooking, I was pacing. I was thinking, I was writing. I seem to burning a little brightly right now; that may explain the frustration. I guess. I’m not sure about that, but maybe the burning somehow

Blogapocalypse

It was a long bad day. I was going to write today. It had such promise at the start. Ideas were just bubbling through, and for some reason the wind has shifted. I write all the time, but it’s for me, for my journal. I have to fight to

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We Noticed

Should Be My Family’s Motto

Outward Writing Thinking

Blogapocalypse