Tag: autism

When I Blog and Use Social Media, I Write for Myself and My Friends… Though I Have a Wider Audience

January 22, 2021

I’ve been writing about and sharing my life online on-and-off since I first got a LiveJournal account around 20 years ago (sometime in the year 2001). One of the things I liked about LiveJournal was that you could filter your audience because there was an actual community there, and you could learn about others and … More When I Blog and Use Social Media, I Write for Myself and My Friends… Though I Have a Wider Audience

(Polyamorous) Romantic Relationships and Dating While Autistic

September 7, 2017

I spend a decent amount of time thinking about dating and relationships. I don’t know where this stems from – whether it’s society’s effect on my life, suggesting that my value is only as much as what I am to other people/if I’m in a relationship. If it’s because during my adolescence, no one wanted … More (Polyamorous) Romantic Relationships and Dating While Autistic

Three Weeks on the Road, Following My Mum’s Legacy

August 25, 2017

Apart from visiting many members of my extended family in late 2007, to introduce them to my husband and new son (then not-quite-one), I hadn’t really made much effort to connect with them in person (unless I happened to be in Washington DC/Virginia, which wasn’t too far from family I have in Virginia). It wasn’t … More Three Weeks on the Road, Following My Mum’s Legacy