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Inside Autistic Minds

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Inside Autistics Minds is my new blog for neurodivergent people of all ages and backgrounds to share their unique voices, through art, writing, photography, sculpture, even awesome things they have built with Lego.

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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Something I wrote yesterday in loving memory of my magically mum.
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For those with Eyes to See….
Magick exists everywhere.  For those with eyes to see!
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#asd #socialanxiety #anxiety #disability #autism
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Battling Anxiety…
I woke up in a cold sweat, terrified. Will I go through with it? Won’t I? I honestly don’t know.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Being kind costs nothing. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent
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Accomodations cost nothing.
In most instances providing accommodations for autistic and neurodivergent people costs nothing.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#asd #birthday #autism #autistic
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It’s my birthday…..
It’s 7.30am on the 22nd February 2025, and it’s my birthday.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#autism #disability
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Why Invisible Disability makes me feel Invisible.
No matter how hard I try. No matter how much effort I exert. The real me. The authentic me, buried under layers of masking, and faking being ‘normal’…. that me…. will always…
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
100 word challenge poem I wrote this morning. Enjoy. #asd #autistic #poetry #poem #writing.
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Sit with me in Darkness…
If you can’t sit with me in darkness,  you don’t deserve my light.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
My deathly fear of ever asking for assistance. #asd #autism #rsd #anxiety #mentalhealth #autistic
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Fate worst than Death!
Asking for help is literally a fate worst than death.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I am an autistic person. I am NOT a person with autism. #asd #autism #autistic #IFL
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Identity first Language..
When you use the term ‘person with autism’, it suggests that I am an allistic person but with an added feature called autism. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Autism and social anxiety. #asd #autism #anxiety #socialanxiety #mentalhealth
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Making easy things Hard.
Something as simple as an invite to have coffee has turned into an anxiety filled nightmare. Such is autism.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Bone tired today. #asd #autism #autistic #burnout #neurodivergent #mentalhealth
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Autistic Burnout…
Burnout is one of the less fun things about autism. An ever present companion in my life.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I'm not sure how many people would spend days playing with wasps, but I have certainly enjoyed myself. #photography #macro #insect #wasp #asd #autism
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It’s the Little Things….
Do you have to be autistic to spend weeks communing with yellow wasps…. NO. But it sure helps 🤣
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Time for a photo share.... #animals #wildlife #nature #photography #asd #autism #neurodiversity.
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I get the best visitors….
As soon as I discovered that I had this special little guy at my back door, naturally I grabbed for my camera and went out to play with him.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Whilst there is a lot about autism that is a struggle, I wouldn't change it for the world. It's WHO I am. Not something I have. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent
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I DON’T need a cure!!!!
We don’t need the world to save us…. we are here to save the world!
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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The End, pt 3
You lose so much more than a shared past when a marriage ends. You lose the future you had dreamed of, counted on, prepared for. The happily growing old together.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We need to stop assessing people's intelligence or level of functioning capacity based on their ability to speak or not. #asd #autism #nonverbal #autistic #blog #neurodivergent #speech
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Speaking is NOT a superior form of communication.
Just because someone isn’t speaking in words, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a lot of very interesting things to ‘say’.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Well I had a fun time last night.
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It’s only a matter of time…..
As long as there are people who insist on driving drunk, or drugged, or just too fucking fast for the conditions…. it’s only a matter of time.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#divorce #marriage #relationships #infidelity #cheating #disability
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The End, pt2
As women we are taught to nurture. We are taught to fix emotional things. Feelings.  Family issues. Relationships.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Latest excerpt from Divorce on the Spectrum written in 2023. #asd #autism #autistic #divorce #relationships #infidelity #marriage
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The End, pt1
The only thing I know for absolute certainty is that in the first week of what was to become the longest, coldest, wettest winter in living memory, I found myself completely alone for the first tim…
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I created this blog so that any autistic or neurodivergent person could have their voices heard. #asd #autism #autistic #selfexpression #blog #neurodivergent
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ALL Autistic voices Matter!!
It doesn’t matter if I agree with you, or disagree with you. I’m here to help you share your voice.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Amazing guest blogger post from Simon Vujnovic. If you would like to be a guest blogger, or just want to share your art or photography or whatever, please let me know. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #disability #blog #blogger
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Breaking Free from the Mental Health Establishment’s View of Autism
Choose beliefs that serve your highest potential, and remember that your story is yours to write.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Please stop using the totally offensive puzzle piece to represent autism. #asd #autism #autistic #puzzlepiece #infinitysymbol
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Stop the Puzzle Piece…
The infinity symbol is one of inclusion. The puzzle piece is a symbol of exclusion and being somehow broken or defective.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Being labeled a fussy eater my entire, it was such a relief to learn about ARFID and that many autistics have the same issues with sensory sensitivities around food. #asd #autism #autistic #food #arfid #sensorysensitivities #sensoryissues #diet #neurodivergent
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Fussy eater, or AFRID?
Let me know if you suffer from AFRID or have any sensory sensitivities around food. I can’t tell you how life affirming it is to know that it’s not just me.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
How do you like to stim? I'm currently obsessed with crochet. #asd #autistic #autism #craft #crochet #knitting #yarn #wool #mindfulness
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Crochet as Stimming…
How do you like to stim? I think craft is a wonderful because not only is it socially acceptable, but you end up with something to keep at the end of it.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Last instalment from a chapter of my 'never to be finished' book 🤣 #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #marriage #divorce #cheating #relationships #blog
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The Beginning of the End, pt3
So now armed with every conceivable red flag, what choice did I make?  Naturally I dived in heart first, loudly and proudly declaring, “sign me up”
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Welcome to my second guest blogger, Vanessa Brown who writes on the importance of self advocacy for adult autistics. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #advocacy #blogger #blogging #diversity
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Embracing Neurodiversity in Adulthood: Finding Your Voice
Self-advocacy is a vital tool for every autistic adult, allowing us to create a world where we can live authentically and thrive.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
#asd #autistic #blog #relationships #divorce #autism #adoption #blog #anxiety #mentalhealth
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The Beginning of the End, Pt2
Perhaps one of these persona’s would stick.  Perhaps this next one would turn out to be the authentic me.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Excerpt from the book I wrote that I will never finish. Sometimes autism's a bitch. #asd #autism #writing #autistic #neurodiversity #book #author #unpublished #divorce #marriage #relationships
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The Beginning of the End, pt1
Looking back I can now see how my autism diagnosis spelled the beginning of the end of my marriage.  That’s not to say that it was a match made in heaven.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2025... a year for fairytale endings. #asd #autism #autistic #photography #swan #nature #wildlife #animals #signet
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New Year…. New ME!!!
So on this new day of a new year, feeling like a brand new me, I thought I would share a couple of pics of baby black swan signets, because today feels an awful lot like an Ugly Duckling fairytale …
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
WANTED!! Looking for guest neurodivergent bloggers to share their writing, art, photography, whatever you want to share with the neurodivergent community. #asd #autistic #autism #neurodivergent #blogging
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inside autistic minds
where guest bloggers are not only welcome, but encouraged
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Comparing New Years eve 2023 to this year. #asd #autism #autistic #newyear #blog #neurodivergent
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New Years Eve…
After the past couple of years of complete upheaval and torment and heartbreak, peace and safety seem like pretty worthy goals to have.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Autistic people put SO much effort into masking and making NT's feel comfortable but it is never reciprocated. And yet we are the one's with the 'reciprocity' issue. Gimme a break. #asd #autism #autistic #disability #friendship #neurodivergent
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The Great Divide…
Is it too much to ask that the people in my life show a little interest in autism? Apparently. It is!
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I actually do believe we are the next evolution, but that doesn't mean I'm not disabled. There are simply SO many things I can't do, have never been able to do, and pay a heavy price for trying to do, simply to fit in and appear 'normal' to everyone else. #asd #autism #disability #disabled
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The moment I realised I was actually disabled. 😳 #asd #autistic #disability #disabled #autism #neurodivergent #chronicpain
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Living as a newly diagnosed Autie, pt3
Not only did I now have a newly forged label of ‘autistic’ but I also found myself having to come to terms with society’s label of ‘disabled’.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
So happy to share our first guest blogger on my website. Hopefully the first of many. Thanks so much @ozmorrhiza.bsky.social for being willing to share. #ADHD #autism #christmas #holidays #blog #burnout #covid
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The Art of Hanging On
Welcome to our First Guest Blogger, Cicely Robin Laing.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
#asd #autistic #autism #neurodivergent #blog #mentalhealth #socialmedia
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Living as a newly diagnosed Autie, pt2
It’s one thing to know that there are others out there, it’s another to be able to converse with them and share our common experiences.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
After finally getting my formal diagnosis, NO ONE was happy for me. But I was happy. Very Happy. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #formaldiagnosis #community #family #friends
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Living as a newly diagnosed Autie, pt1
I was now a member of a large and growing community of people who could not only understand my experience but also share in it, in a way that was never previously conceived of.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
To all you fellow Grinch's out there, good luck today. 🤞 #asd #autism #autistic #christmas #neurodivergent #holidays #anxiety #socialanxiety #stress #mentalhealth
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Happy Christmas…
So to those who love this time of year I say, Happy Christmas to you. And to those who dread it, like me…. I hope you survive OK.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I wanted to share something I wrote on Christmas Eve last year, since it's Christmas Eve here in Oz. Whilst I won't be spending this Christmas alone, part of me still wishes I was. On a rural property such as this, one is never truly alone. #asd #christmas #autism #grinch #autistic #blog
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Last Christmas Eve…
The moment I released myself from the societal expectation of what Christmas ‘should’ look like, was the moment any sadness, any loneliness, and any trace of depression left my psyche.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Finally at 55 years old, I got my formal ASD diagnosis. #asd #autistm #autistic #blog #neurodivergent #formaldiagnosis #psychologist #disability
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Formal Diagnosis
For the first time in my life, I was being told that it was OK to be who I was. I wasn’t a broken neuro-normative person, I was a perfectly fine, autistic person
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Finally the answer I had been searching for, for 55 years. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #Instagram #YouTube #socialmedia #mentalhealth #anxiety #depression #HSP #LGBTQIA
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Genuinely Late Diagnosis, pt3
If you are not picked up as autistic as a young child, it can be an uphill battle to obtain any form of formally recognised diagnosis.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The Light Bulb moment I realised I might be autistic. #asd #autism #autistic #anxiety #depression #ptsd #therapy #psychology #neurodivergent #YouTube
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Genuinely Late Diagnosed, pt2
From that second on I began devouring every YouTube video I could find on female autism.  These incredible women were describing my entire life experience in exquisite detail.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Genuinely Late Diagnosed, pt1… I still had no idea what autism was, let alone the fact that I myself was autistic.  I’m embarrassed to say that I lacked a basic or even stereotypical view of ASD.
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Genuinely Late Diagnosed, pt1…
I still had no idea what autism was, let alone the fact that I myself was autistic.  I’m embarrassed to say that I lacked a basic or even stereotypical view of ASD.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Question???? Your feedback and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have much to share. Just trying to sort out the best way to achieve this.
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Question????
Your feedback and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have much to share. Just trying to sort out the best way to achieve this.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Being Autistic before Autism existed, pt3. Being an undiagnosed autistic adult is hard. I preferred the company of my kids friends to other adults.
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Being Autistic before Autism existed, pt3.
Being an undiagnosed autistic adult is hard. I preferred the company of my kids friends to other adults.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Being Autistic before Autism Existed, pt2… I learned to mold my personality to mirror that of those I admired most, becoming an amalgamation of TV characters and further losing any sense of true identity. 
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Being Autistic before Autism Existed, pt2…
I learned to mold my personality to mirror that of those I admired most, becoming an amalgamation of TV characters and further losing any sense of true identity. 
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Growing up autistic before autism existed. #asd #autism #neurodivergent #newborn #autistic #mother #motherhood #adoption #adopted
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Being Autistic before Autism Existed, pt1…
Had autism been in the collective consciousness in the mid 60’s it would have been blatantly obvious that I was an autistic child.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
When our pets are more than just pets... they are life savers. #asd #autism #animals #cat #pets #rescue #suicidalideation #disability #autistic #blog
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Who saved who?
I picked her up, and she instantly curled up into a tiny ball, snuggling between my breasts and began to purr. It was as if to say, “I’m home now”.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A little introduction into my walk contradiction. #asd #autism #autistic #neurodivergent #weird #blog #sciencefiction #animals #notbroken
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I am Weird…
First thing you need to know about me is…I AM WEIRD. Always have been. I feel like I am a walking contradiction of conflicting character traits and flaws.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Maintaining friendships as an introverted autistic can be really hard. #asd #autism #friendship #autistic #neurodivergent #anxiety
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Navigating Friendships
I knew what was happening.  But as is always the case with people such as these, inevitably they cross a line, a chasm, so great that no way back exists.
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Inside Autistic Minds @insideautieminds.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I am a fully committed 'single forever', choosing a life of authenticity, and complete freedom and bucking the societal conditioning that says we are incomplete without a partner. I call total BS. #marriage #relationship #single #society #B4 #B4movement #freedom #authenticity #happy
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Single by Choice…
Marriage is on the decline worldwide.  Statistics from right across the globe show an ever increasing trend of couples deciding to either delay marriage or forgo it altogether.
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