Working With Alexithymia: How I Made Friends with My Emotions
“It feels like something bad is going to happen,” I told my mother before bed one night. I was around […]
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Personal Stories
Advice That Doesn’t Work for Me As an Autistic Adult
I remember realizing in high school that sometimes the advice from teachers, mentors, and even my parents just didn’t seem
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Why I Left Academia: Lessons From the Tenure Track
When I received a job offer for a tenure track position during my final year of graduate school, I was
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Unmasking My Style: From Control to Creativity
I’ve always enjoyed design, whether combining unexpected elements in a collage as a kid, or decorating my first dorm room.
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5 Autism Accommodation Ideas From My School Days
Disability accommodation doesn’t mean unfair advantage. It removes barriers to learning that shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
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Autistic Pride 2025: Why I Love Being Me
Happy Autistic Pride Day! While there are many challenges to being on the spectrum, there are also so many things
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The Everyday Toll of Autistic Masking
Most people adjust their behavior, appearance, and speech to the people around them in some way, at least subconsciously. It’s
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How Panic Disorder Masked My Autism
In retrospect, it was panic that led me down the road to a diagnosis of autism. But at the same
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Four Powerful Ways I Unknowingly Practiced Autistic Self-Accommodation
I did not wake up one day out of nowhere to ask, “Am I autistic?” In fact, I had been
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