almost everybody encounters us regularly. most get annoyed or ignore us. this is how to deal with us in a way that is conducive to a healthy relationship we would otherwise miss out on.
South England, the 3rd July. Summer fills the town with sunrays and midsummer rain, when Iris moves to the so called "Rainbow Home" for disabled teenagers. While she starts to get used to life in the Rainbow Home, her flatmates still deal with their own problems... Hating to see them having so many problems, Iris tr...
"I wasn't normal and it was all right. I wasn't normal and it was encouraged. I wasn't normal and it was celebrated." A short slam poem about the daily life of a teen on the autism spectrum, about the roles we are all forced to take and what happens when we choose to break away from them.
Just some poems about autism and everyday life as a "high fucktioning" (see what I did there?) autistic.
A collection of enlightening perspectives from a very neurologically different person.
Join the cast of Thousand Dollar Friend in an anthology of short stories exploring friendship, disability, and the complicated process of growing up. NOTES: These stories are generally PG. The discussion space is meant to be friendly and safe for minors. Hate towards people with disabilities, any letter in the LGBTQIA...
This is just a collection of things about myself, I'm not sure how else to explain it. Enjoy, I guess.
"Make friends with my daughter, and I'll pay you a thousand dollars." Tara's junior year of high school is turned upside down after she collides into the life of Aurora Rosenberg, the autistic teenage heiress to Rosenberg Technologies. Mr. Rosenberg's offer feels wrong... but he says his daughter has no real friends...
Cover image description: A taupe "awareness" ribbon with googly eyes glued on it. The taupe symbolizes the toned-down sensory and emotional experiences of people who suffer from allism, and the eyes represent the obsessive need for eye contact in allistic individuals. Please note: This is entirely sarcastic. I litera...
Talking about Autism and hoping to raise awareness of it. It is not a disability. It is a feature that makes us who we are.
My mind is dark. Very dark. Sometimes, the darkness is so dark it drowns me. Sometimes I succumb to it and sink in it even deeper. And everything gets darker, yet darker. My mind is colourful. Very colourful. Sometimes, the colours are bright, but not so bright that they blind me. Sometimes they are dark, but not so...
Hello! My name is Josefine, and i'm from Denmark. I have Autism. My kindergarten teachers found me acting differently than the other children when i was a child, so they told my parents, and they got someone to check me, and then they found out i have Autism. I was only 2-3 years old (wich makes me really lucky, since...
