Thoughts

The Burden of Masking

Those of us who ‘adapt’ are forcing ourselves to not be ourselves – it’s an act that takes up a lot of cognitive resources for this alone, and also can lead to anxiety, depression, and a loss of identity. The more effectively Autistic people mask, the higher the risk of these developing, and it has a near exponential effect on suicide statistics.

It takes too much time and energy to try and fit in, and you end up burning out. In my case, since no one knew I was autistic, it was treated as depression, and I was treated as someone who just got seasonal depression. Which was frustrating to me because I felt like we never got to why the depressions were happening. They were just waved off as a being a force of nature that could neither be understood nor controlled.

You are not a burden. You have been burdened. – Rory’s Reckons

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