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Friendship… Interrupted
The truth about having friends in an autistic world. Making friends is supposed to be easy, right? Natural. Normal. It just kinda happens. At least that’s the story we’re told through books, movies, and TV. It was when I was growing up, and what I saw surrounding me as I got older. You meet someone, you “click,” and from there it’s late-night phone calls, inside jokes, matching your energy, and sitting with you during the hard times. By adulthood, you’re expected to have that “best friend” — the Thelma to your Louise, your ride-or-die buddy, your ‘person,’ the one who shows up with ice cream when life falls apart and…
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One Moment Changed the Next 20 Years of My Life
Time is just a blink of an eye and moments can be monumental. A moment can be defined as a snippet of time. It could be a day, a minute, or a second. We’ve got quite a bit of space for anything to happen within the 525,600 minutes in each year (or 31,536,000 seconds if you really want to take a deep dive). And a moment is all it takes for your world to change forever. If you had told me back in 2005 where I would be today, I never would’ve believed you. We don’t always see the potential for the butterfly effect, but it’s pretty cool to open…
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Finding My Voice… Again
Don’t let others silence you. I’ve been a writer my whole life. I just didn’t know it. Not really. The first time I really put pen to paper in a creative way was in first grade. We were tasked with writing a Haiku (yeah, my elementary school was a little on the overachieving side). I silently formed it in my head and scribbled it on some loose-leaf paper with my No. 2 pencil. “Oh, little bluebird. Flying swiftly through the air. Spring is really here.” No idea where that came from, but I felt a shift and a whole new world of words opened up to me in that moment.…
