The author reflects on the connection between history and storytelling, highlighting a charming anecdote about Abraham Lincoln and an 11-year-old girl, Grace Bedell, who encouraged him to grow a beard for his campaign. This interaction illustrates how small moments in history reveal human connections and inspire the author's passion for writing.
Last Tuesday, a very kind and caring psychologist confirmed what I have known for the last 4 years. I am autistic and have been for the last 48 years. Autism as a condition has been recognized as a condition since 1943. Today, diagnosis comes with levels instead of labels. The old systems of labeling people …
Today, I was asked if I was autistic autistic and since the questioner was a child. I answsered without an ounce of sacrasm; channeling the most patient of teachers, my eighth grade English teacher, a woman who spent 3 hours in a lockdown with 20 kids, I answered. Everyone who is autistic is autistic austistic. …
Photo by Yaroslav Danylchenko on Pexels.com This chapter has been delayed due to illness, try as I might, boosted as I am, COVID took me down again. It also changed the topic of this chapter. Last weekend when I should have been welcoming Mamma home from the hospital, I was buried in covers attempting to …
Autism or Autism Spectrum disorder can be defined by the medical community is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave caused by difference in the brain. Say Autism and some people think of Sheldon on Big Bang Theory or Dr. Shaun Murphy on the Good Doctor. …
Books I Love Since 2012, I have been participating in the Goodreads - Reading Challenge and while I am constantly reading I've only completed it twice officially. A couple of times, I simply forgot to enter the books after I read them (2015, I am looking at you.). Photo by ready made on Pexels.com This …
Everyday is a new chapter in our lives. Today is the first chapter in a new volume of your life. It is time to begin implementing the plans you have making. What is that? You haven't finished those plans. Don't worry you aren't alone. I can't count the number of things that I haven't finished planning or even begun to plan. New Year's reminds me of the beginning of school year. Friends and strangers asked if I am ready and my response is almost always "No, but it is coming, anyway." That is true of the New Year as well.
The knowledge that I have ADHD has transformed my life. Many of the things which I believed were faults were the effects of trying to adapt to a neurotypical world when there was no way to fit my triangle peg in to the octagon hole without glaring gaps. Those gaps are the things which cause …
My doctor is not neurospicy. She has an ego that worries me. On the 6th of the month, I received an email saying that I need to talk to my doctor about getting a blood test due to high blood calcium level. On the 9th, I requested an appointment and by the 10th, I had …
This meme has run across my socials multiple times in the last couple of weeks. In 1994, I thought I knew so much but the evidence was weak. Since then I've learned and unlearned so many things. When I learned that I had ADHD, I had to unlearn shame and guilt. I am forgetful, I …
Lucinda Rose 