I'm still alive.

For those of you on DW that I converse with - I haven't been ignoring any of you for personal reasons.  And I still will post sometimes.

But I realized something - using words takes a toll on me.  A big toll.  And right now I am studying at University - which means that using words is at the *heart* of many of my duties as a student ( Read more... )

Nov 1st is Autistics Speaking Day!

Since I'm not particularly word-based right now and so much of my experience of autism is the world outside of words (and the connections and joys that go with that),  today is going to be a picture day.
This is a celebration in photos:


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Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet who is living and working now.

( Hedgehog by Paul Muldoon )

Wren and Raven are going to be joining me and my immediate family for thanksgiving.

So I feel like my whole family will be there.

*warmfuzzies*

Spent the evening with Wren (my girlfriend). Life is good.

So, the girl I met on the bus a while back... (damn, she needs a moniker on this blog)...  and I spent this sunday together.  Anyway she met my liege lord, boyfriend, whatever you want to call him and they like eachother.  None of us have any problems with sharing.  So things will eventually work out how they're going to work out, and so far that's ( Read more... )

So much is going right in my life right now.  Raven and I have had the most incredible conversations and we’re very close right now - doors opening that have never been open (at least in words)  I’ve got what’s pretty close to a taste of my dream job in the form of an internship.  I’m (hopefully) going back to college soon. The girl from the bus ( Read more... )

OK : Warning this is going to be a really rough draft.  But I've been thinking about this for years and I'm finally getting to the point where I can sorta-write about it.  I know - I come up with big Ideas, but it can take months/years to say them - it makes for sucky conversation.  And the latest post on SM-F triggered this.  Because I see one ( Read more... )