I'm not going to lie. I have, in some senses, felt relieved by the onset of the pandemic. Without this disruption, my company would not allow me to work from home full time. They stated that this was due to a policy, even though I had been expressing my discomfort to my supervisor and department …
Month: August 2020
Mistakes Were Made
Perfection is short lived, but sadly, it is something I have spent much of my life chasing. Nearly immediately upon my ASD diagnosis, I was finally able to at least put my perfectionist tendencies in perspective and move on, accepting myself, flaws and all. So this is where I made my first blog fubar: accidentally …
Tips and Tricks for Maintaining your Mental Health Through the Pandemic
You are ultimately responsible for your own mental state during the pandemic and you have more control over your mental state than you think. We are all now restricted in ways we did not anticipate. Understanding and REALLY internalizing the fact that in the before-pandemic times, your beliefs about how much control you had over …
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Late Summer = Spider Season
One of my other "super-powers" that I've had since childhood is a powerful attractiveness to any and all biting insects and arachnids. We lived in Minnesota for the first several years of my life and my mother said she used to have to drag me inside in the summers because the enormous horse flies were …
Friendship
I have always found the word "friend" to be overused to the point of being meaningless. Long before Facebook came up with the bright idea to turn everyone you've ever known, from your kid's teacher to your favorite bartender at your local pub, into your friends, I struggled to square my definition of the word …
Wanted: Reader Input
When I started this blog in March of this year, I had many ideas about topics I could speak on and connections I could make between different abstract concepts. My primary goal was to give me something to tend to during the lockdown period, to keep my mind off how bad I knew things would …
Roles and Leadership in the Workplace
One of the ways our society, and specifically our workplaces, have evolved that causes me, as an autistic person, to struggle is the breakdown of the concept of defined roles and responsibilities. It is not that I have "old fashioned" views, like traditional gender roles, far from it. But I do prioritize knowing who is …
Contraction
I feel my soul contracting in parallel with the society and the economy. It is a constant uneasy feeling, as though it is getting harder to move, harder to live fully, harder to feel deeply. So many people, fellow human beings, are finding it hard to breathe. COVID and police violence are forcing the breath …
Stop half-assing life
This title is directed at myself as much as anyone else. But really, everyone, let's collectively STOP. There are way too many situations where we are just all phoning it in and that has to end at some point. Show up, for real. Be real. Take a stand. Believe in something. Make noise. Raise a …
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