Identity

Identity

Essays and stories exploring lived experience, asexuality, disability, neurodivergence, and the forces that shape how we see ourselves and others.

Who Takes Care of the Autistic Caretakers?

Society  finally recognizes the benefits of autistic people, but we are saddled  with responsibility at home and at work to the point of breaking. In October, I attended the five day Stanford Neurodiversity

A Body in Motion

“Hey, I thought you said rocking is bad?” The rocking is bad. That’s what I’m conditioned to believe, and what I tell my kid when she’s gone into hour three or four of sitting in her room rocking over and over and over.

Accessible Only

Imagine what would happen if people stopped using platforms that failed to offer integrated accessibility by design. Not the option to turn on image descriptions or closed captioning or text-to-speech reader capabilities, but

Do They Know

She’s just another kid among the hundreds they have to shuffle throughout the year. Walking down the junior high hallways with headphones clamped firmly in place, avoiding contact by hugging the walls