Alexithymia and Finding Refuge in Romance
I mostly operate in this very even, neutral space of mind. But under the surface I know that there’s lots going on. That perhaps things are building up until they reach a tipping point and come spilling over. I’m in that place today. The tipping over place. Where emotions come crashing over me like a broken dam. But it’s not just one predominate emotion, it’s a confluence of many disconnected from a specific context or moment. There’s no making sense of it or finding meaning in this flood emotion, it just demands to be felt all at once.
Writing the Happily Ever After Autistic Women Deserve
The storylines written about autistic people in TV and film turn us into flat one-dimensional stereotypes. If those characters have a central role in the story, they are almost always white men. Women and particularly women of color are left out of the storyline or reduced to a minor supporting role.
But then there are novels.
How an autism + ADHD diagnosis helped me reclaim my love of writing
I’ve always known I wanted to be a writer. What I didn’t understand is that all the traditional advice about how to discipline yourself to write consistently and produce new work would never work for me. So, for years I struggled to finish even a short piece of work. I could not understand how I could have moments of hyperfocus when I completed a project usually when there was an external deadline involved and yet when it came to other projects I would start with a burst of excitement and inspiration and then my motivation would take dive off a steep cliff into a bottomless pit never to be seen again.