Autism Stories

"Brevity is not my strong suite. I'm the kind of person who writes a lot. I'm hyperlexic, I'm hyperverbal. When I write, I can't just write a simple 500 word article to explain something. I have to wr...

30 Okt 202322min

"For the longest time, I kind of used makeup to hide behind. Hide my face, and hide acne scars, and hide everything else. But then it developed from that into being a creative outlet. I've created elf...

23 Okt 202314min

"I got on the show, but then I quickly realized, yes, I had done a great job preparing for the questions and the mental part. But I had done nothing to prepare for the emotional part. Suddenly, I'm th...

16 Okt 202338min

"I have also learned from the neurodiversity movement, which reframes autism as differences in brain-wiring and it's natural variation in the diversity of human experience, as well as pride in our aut...

2 Okt 202315min

"I don't start my day with a to-do list or a task-list. I start my day deciding what I want to play with! Do I wanna play with nerdy stuff? Do I want to make something? Do I want to do arts and crafts...

25 Sep 202328min

"That's a lot of what I invoked in my character, Nick, in, 'The Brick Builder Challenge.' Nick very much wants to do it his way. Growing up for me too, it was always...it's not that I didn't want to c...

18 Sep 202316min

"Ironically, wanting to do stand up is the thing that got me into public speaking in the first place. Because of stand-up, I am a lot more sociable and more relaxed when meeting new people", says Rian...

14 Sep 202320min

"The really nice thing about Buddhism, which only occurred to me very recently, was that it's so accepting of being solitary, being alone, being quiet, renunciation, and finding quiet spaces. Because ...

11 Sep 202328min