I feel autistic joy whenever I connect openly with other autistic people. It usually happens at events such as Autistic Pride Day, at international gatherings I have attended, and in everyday life while working with a neurodivergent team at IMPACTsci. The first example, and still the most memorable, was at an event in Finland organised…
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1. Am I good enough now? This digital painting is about masking and the hardships that I go through everyday to fit into a society which is not accommodating towards disabilities. 2. Crooked Fingers I am also hypermobile, and trying to get a diagnosis to see if I also have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Autistic people have a…
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Watch André’s documentary here: https://vimeo.com/1133145586/83f074014c?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
A #MyAutismJourney story by Tokyo Attard Truthfully, I don’t really remember much of my childhood. I spent most of it locked in my room playing with the same 2 or 3 toys and being alone at school with no friends. I wanted to make friends, but it just never worked out. It’s supposed to be…
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Resilience, perseverance, determination… in other words never give up!
When I was a child, I was often seen as the strange one. At kindergarten and later at school, I did not easily fit in. I could spend hours playing computer games, and social situations often felt confusing or exhausting. From a young age, I regularly saw psychologists, and when I was ten, I was…
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As long as I can remember, I have tried to understand the world by looking for patterns. Rules made sense to me. If someone explained how something worked, I could usually adapt. What I struggled with were the rules that nobody explained. Social expectations, unwritten conventions, and situations where everyone else somehow seemed to know…
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For most of my life, I appeared to be doing well. I studied, built a career, and gradually took on more responsibility. From the outside, my life looked successful. People saw someone who was capable, independent, and productive. I often believed that image myself. What nobody saw was the amount of work it took just…
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