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Just Because I Need Time Doesn’t Make Me Dumb Or A Jerk
I once backed out on a cross-country trip in college that was already paid for, less than a week away, because no one else going on the trip cared to work out the logistics and I wasn’t going to drag my luggage around BART for a whole week, looking up each stop as we went [...]
Autism Friendly Night Out: It Happened!
Remember how a few months ago I mentioned I wanted to plan an event where autistics could go out in a more pleasant setting? I made that happen last night. Well, correction…I made it happen with lots of help from some great people. In the beginning, I wondered how the retailers would respond. After all, [...]
Hemiplegic Migraine and A Few Words on Self-Care
While this isn’t a medical blog really, many of us adults on the spectrum deal with a lot of medical and especially neurological goodness, and self-care is one of the realities of living independently. I woke up this morning with the less desirable of my two types of migraines. Most of my migraines are the [...]
When You Misunderstand and Don’t Know It
It’s one thing to mishear speech as gibberish and get “mumble mumble” instead of distinct words. Or to know that something isn’t sinking in. In that case you can ask a person to repeat or wait for you to process. Another processing difficulty that autistics and those with auditory processing disorder have involves hearing speech [...]