This is a special blog post on behalf of Autism Acceptance & Autistic Appreciation Month. I’m autistic. Openly autistic and proud. Yes, like anyone else I have my good days […]
This is a special blog post on behalf of Autism Acceptance & Autistic Appreciation Month. I’m autistic. Openly autistic and proud. Yes, like anyone else I have my good days […]
“I will call you when there are any upcoming hours.” I was put back to an on-call position at my workplace of eight years. This was a devastating loss for […]
… the bragger and feeding my ego Conscience vs Ego! Pick a side! When I volunteered back in 2012 with a youth basketball league I would hear the head coach […]
First love almost always equals also experiencing your first heartbreak. I thought I would marry my first love, I wanted my first relationship to be with someone who I thought […]
I never thought that I would actually travel in 2019. I was asked by my friend who is like a second mom to me if I wanted to go to […]
Skinny is overrated. The media puts so much pressure on many young girls and women. You have to be skinny to be attractive. You have to lift itty bitty one, […]
I was a big girl, well as a kid I was skinny until I was 11 years old and I gained a ton of weight over the summer. I would […]
One thing that many autistic people have had to learn is boundaries. This is something that doesn’t come naturally to us. No, it’s not that we don’t want to learn, […]
They say learning a language has many benefits. Languages – I was exempt from learning French in school and have always hated the language as it got shoved down my […]
I’m THAT kind of person… That woman, that woman that has to come to you instead of you coming to me. JUST THE THOUGHT of a man approaching me makes […]
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