Autism
It's a weird roller coaster. Some days, I feel very competent. I handle everything thrown my way. I get more done than I expected to, or complete something that's been hanging out there forever. Even things that normally give me trouble I can handle just fine,
Writing
I used to write letters to people. Way back when, before mail went electronic, before we had computers in our pockets, I would put pen to paper and write letters to my friends. These were people whom I used to be close with, who were now far away from me.
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I'm in Chicago to celebrate New Year's before New Year's. Every year for nearly 20 years, a group of my college friends have gathered, even as we've grown and spread across the country. Most of us started in the Midwest, and Chicago
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These are the shortest days of the year. You get up before the sun, which sets before you're done with work. But they feel so long, filled with an unending series of tasks, so many things clamoring for your attention. I took Friday off to watch the boys
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I hit a stumbling block with the piece I was trying to write about the first year of living with my diagnosis. While for the most part, the experience has been positive, I started pushing back at myself when it felt like, to me, that I was focusing on the
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Last weekend, my mother came to Des Moines to visit us, and on Sunday, we decided to go to the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden to wander around a bit, and then have lunch at Trellis, the cafe in the Garden that overlooks the river. Every winter, Kate tries to
Autism
Nothing bad is going to happen. You seriously need to relax. I was sort of thinking that this anxiety thing was just an excuse for slacking, for getting drunk, but it's real, I stress about things a lot, I just bury it, try to forget about it, try