Tag Archives: neurodiversity

Is it autism fatigue… or something else?

Posted on June 14, 2025 by C. M. Condo

Precious few believed me when I said my body wasn’t right, that I wasn’t supposed to be like this. Doctors blamed it on my medications, my hormones, vitamins, diet, my pillow, exercising, not exercising, all couched with the suspicion that I was exaggerating or making it up. What’s worse is on some level, I believed them. Continue reading →

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laziness, autism version

Posted on February 12, 2025 by C. M. Condo

A popular news magazine just published an article on child psychopathy and what is being done to treat it. Studies had revealed differences in these children’s brain development as young as three or four years old. As I was a … Continue reading →

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Aspergers-like

Posted on January 4, 2025 by C. M. Condo

This is not far off from those ridiculous lists of jobs that people on the spectrum should be good at, based on stereotypical tendencies. Such tendencies are just trimmings of our autism and do not give any idea what an autistic’s life is really like. Inevitably, the people who make these lists are not autistic. Continue reading →

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doctors, autism, anxiety & assumptions

Posted on December 26, 2024 by C. M. Condo

The word “autism” never crossed the doctor’s lips. He didn’t even argue about it; he just acted as if it didn’t exist. Continue reading →

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restraint

Posted on May 23, 2024 by C. M. Condo

Autistic people are experts on what is good for them personally. What is needed, however, is not necessarily what non-autistics would expect. But when I do not have enough spoons to deal with another human, I am way past the point of having enough to explain why. Continue reading →

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