Time won't heal you. Apologies won't heal you. Closure won't heal you. Coping won't heal you. Numbing won't heal you. Running away won't heal you. Validation won't heal you. Eating, drinking, drugging, smoking, or fucking your pain away won't heal you. Only YOU will heal you.

Read a novel where the main characters described herself as a child as 'naive, obsessive and boyish' and I whispered 'autistic?'

Fireworks are bad, bad, bad for my brain.

I just watched Wil Wheaton on celebrity Jeopardy talk openly about his childhood abuse and struggles with the effects of CPTSD. I hope we get more celebrities talk about their trauma and mental health work. #mentalhealth #cptsd

I'm so tired of attending training sessions on autism in children only and done by non-autistic people. Autistic kids grow up into autistic adults. Autism is not only about how it looks but how it feels. Please stop with the 'my son is autistic'so I can teach people about autism

I just did a whole week of psilocybin retreat /treatment because my legitimate trauma triggers cause me to parent in ways i don't like and that I find unacceptable. Yall stop using trauma as an excuse to be mean. Seek healing and stop making others victims of your own triggers.

I can’t help but think (frequently) about all the NeuroDivergent People who have no idea they are NeuroDivergent, and may never know before they leave this world.

On one hand I'm a bit frustrated that NO ONE during my psychology studies noticed I had autistic traits (that would have helped me being at peace sooner) but on the other hand.. even people working in the field are not educated enough on the matter.

WE. NEED. MORE. EDUCATION

When it comes to CPTSD and neurodivergence, what comes first?

Happy Neurodiversity Celebration Week 🍀Let’s spend this week embracing the people in our lives with unique brains that make our lives more enjoyable, entertaining, meaningful and fun. 🧡
#MondayMotivation #Neurodiversity CelebrationWeek2023 #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent

Neurodiversity celebration week!

The #neurodiversity movement is part of the #disability rights movement.

Neurodivergent ppl can be disabled by a society not designed for their thriving. But they can and should expect societal barriers to be fixed & their human rights upheld.

📚NEW BOOK REVIEW📚 The ever talented @chelseawallis_ has kindly written another book review for us, this time sharing her thoughts on Joanne Limburg's wonderful book 'Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism, Feminism and Motherhood'!♥️

Read it here:
neurodiversityoxford.web.ox.ac.uk/article/letter…

Do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades meditate or practice mindfulness?

#AskingAutistics

I just got home and changed my socks to the 'good pair' and I can breathe again. My autistic brain is petty and I can't argue with it

I have a visceral reaction to throat-clearing because it reminds me of a person who harmed me and probably because I'm autistic and hyperfocus on stuff. Using some meditation techniques helps, unless I lose it before I get to use them. It's difficult

I live on an autistic spectrum between deep loneliness and total overwhelm.

I have an advance copy of new Samantha Irby book, 'Quietly Hostile,' sitting on my Kindle right now and it just might compensate for my underpaid, dead-end librarian job I have

'Babel' by R. F. Kuang is so good! Literary, dark academia, propulsive fantasy worth taking a weekend off just to read

My lips are chapped, my hands are dry, my cat refuses to leave my lap. I will take any season but winter