It’s common for autistic people to want to have a script or general guidelines for potential interactions. One might ask our partners ahead of time how they would like for us to respond in the event that a particular social dynamic manifests itself so that we aren’t caught off guard with a scenario that we…

After a day of feeling really good I got panicked when I went to the grocery store and a girl flirted with me.

Today I almost cried just going to the pet store because I don’t know how to human anymore

it’s been over a month since I got my shit from M’s place. It’s all sat in boxes and in the back of my car until today. This is the first time I could actually start putting my clothes away. I’m not going to act like there’s no emotion to it. It hurts seeing two…

Therapy session from 7/9/23

Hey there, it’s a bit odd; me writing after a month of basically zero contract with M. During that time I’ve been trying to figure out who I am as a person and obsessively analyzing what happened in the breakdown of our relationship. This letter is intended to serve two purposes. The first is to…

I can’t shake the feeling that I’m failing my community by not getting over this breakup. It’s been a month and I’m still fixated on the way the breakup happened and the fact that M won’t communicate with me when all of this could have been avoided if she’d just communicated with me openly and…

For the majority of my life my autism has been the thing I hide to get along in the “normal” world. I’ve been so good at hiding is that people don’t believe me when I tell them that I’m autistic. On the surface this may seen like a good thing. The unfortunate result many times…

This is the 7/4 therapy session. We were supposed to have a session today (7/6) but there was a scheduling conflict that came up so we pushed it to Saturday.