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As I am getting older in life and life becomes more real, I am slowly understanding what the term adulting… READ MORE
Being an autistic adult, you can have all coping skills at your disposal, but until your brain gets the signal… READ MORE
Throughout life living in my parents’ home, I can remember being told to have a sense of pride and ownership… READ MORE
In recent weeks, with the systems and the world resuming some state of normalcy in my neck of the woods,… READ MORE
Being an autistic adult in my late-thirties, it can be hard to realize just that. Oftentimes, I want to bring… READ MORE
One of the hardest things when it comes to living my life is having to do things that adults do.… READ MORE
As an autistic person who spent a great deal of their adulthood living under the same roof as their parents,… READ MORE
A few weeks ago, while watching TV, I discovered the term deflection. It is a defense mechanism that people use… READ MORE
As I am learning more and more what is the culprit of my being autistic, I am learning that things… READ MORE
For a majority of my life I have had periods of ruminating thoughts enter my headspace. Like last week’s adulting… READ MORE
Having the comorbidity of Anxiety alongside being autistic can provide many challenges for me. One of those challenges I constantly… READ MORE
Being an autistic adult, it can be hard to recognize that you have to know how you are regulating your… READ MORE
For the majority of my life, I could never see the positive of a situation. No matter what was presumed… READ MORE
I had always practiced what is known today as masking for autistic individuals before the term was coined in modern… READ MORE
Being an adult means that there are obligations in life that must be endured. Whether or not, there are just… READ MORE
One of my biggest struggles that I have had in my time being on my own is when I have… READ MORE
One common trait of autism is the fact that many thrive off of routine and some can be very rigid… READ MORE
As any adult, there are responsibilities that must be endured if you want to survive. Granted, if you are autistic… READ MORE
I am not surprised that I haven’t written about having a purpose as the topic for the weekly adulting post… READ MORE
I am accepting and learning that in order to stop feeling so miserable about my life that I need to… READ MORE
“It can be easy to act on our emotions but there can also be a sense of pride when we are brave and do what we need to get through the challenges we face.”
~Dustin
Home to the writings of an autisitc man that has had his share of life experiences over four decades but has bounced back greatly from adverisity to live an everyday independent life.
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