After a long time of not really seeing anyone outside of immediate family, we went out to dinner and beers with a friend this evening. This is someone from the band, so prior to the pandemic, I would get a chance to visit with him weekly at practice, give or take. Now I think I've …
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The Best Advice I Ever Heard
There are definitely times I have struggled over the last year to keep writing. I am consistently plagued by voices in my head saying that I'm not contributing to society as I said I wanted to, or that there are so many people already writing more eloquently about autism, or simply that blogging is so …
Screw Mindfulness
Mindfulness = the program through which the established societal consensus convinces laypeople that the discomfort they are feeling is internally caused, and can be solved by focusing more on internal resolve than fighting for real righteous change that threatens the power structure. Mindfulness is all the rage these days, can't stop hearing about it. Everyone …
The Web of Humanity
Here it is, 2am again, and my mind is racing. I got a text from a friend last night which led to an hour long "catching up" conversation. I think I pretty much dominated the talk time; fortunately for me, this friend is a great listener who I trust would tell me to STFU if …
How to amplify your own happiness, even in dark times
People seem to believe that true happiness is something you have to seek out and find or that someone else has to give to you as a gift. But those theories are not true. Happiness can only be cultivated, farmed, created, if you will, on one's own, internally. However, it is fleeting and must be …
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2AM
2am is not a normal time to be awake, and yet I am more often than not. I don't work the graveyard shift or anything... Typical day job for this lady. And yet. And still. Some nights I just don't feel tired and I end up working or writing or reading, completely losing track of …
Pandemic Revelations
I am starting to see some patterns in some of the "normal" white people I follow on Twitter and elsewhere. The narrative goes something like 'Has anyone else started to feel a little guilty about XYZ?' These statements reflect recent revelations about race, gender/pay inequities, or even autism. Like it NEVER occurred to these people …
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 …
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 …
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