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A Liminal Space
This post has been a long time coming. My writing to date has been an attempt to bring some order to the chaos following Oranguette's...
May 6, 20242 min read
Collaborative Problem Solving with ASD and PDA
In a previous post, I highlighted the paradigm shifts and approaches that have been helpful for me in navigating the day-to-day with a...
Apr 3, 202410 min read
School
There is no end to what could be written about schooling. School, regardless of what form that takes or doesn't, makes up a huge part of...
Mar 20, 20248 min read
Some Thoughts on Crisis Care
Not too long ago, I mused here about some my institutional encounters while trying to access mental health care for Oranguette. Since...
Mar 13, 20246 min read
What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum
by Annie Kotowicz I recently downloaded and read this book for no other reason than I saw it advertised for free as an e-book. I had no...
Mar 7, 20243 min read
Pathological Demand Avoidance in Practice: A Few Thoughts
I would like to begin this post with an honest confession: I cannot keep up with the growing body of knowledge concerning Pathological...
Feb 29, 20247 min read
Values
At one point in our travels, we took part in a family session on values. An exercise on values sounded a bit dull to me. Moralistic,...
Feb 23, 20242 min read
Institutional Experiences
Our journey has taken us through a variety of settings, including several that I will just refer to vaguely as institutional settings,...
Feb 14, 20248 min read
Autistic Burnout
I first mentioned autistic burnout here where I emphasized its importance without any explanation. I have come back to the idea in...
Feb 7, 20243 min read
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
by Devon Price, PhD This book stands as the most impactful work on the subject of neurodiversity that I have read. I was first made...
Jan 29, 20244 min read
An Eating Disorder
Eating disorders appear to be frightfully common among autistic females and those AFAB (which is not to minimize the many affected and...
Jan 24, 20246 min read
Alexithymia: Some More Words About a Very Useful Word
If anxiety is a troublesome word, alexithymia is a supremely useful word. It was a word Mr. Orangutan and I first discovered within...
Jan 11, 20245 min read
Anxiety: A Lot of Words About a Troublesome Word
This has been a tricky post to write. I have been endeavouring for a long time to convey these ideas, and I can never seem to get my...
Jan 9, 20243 min read
Pathological Demand Avoidance
Pathological Demand Avoidance, or PDA, strikes me as a strange label, especially in the context of neurodiverse-affirming approaches. It...
Dec 18, 20233 min read
A Bridgerton Story
While scrolling aimlessly through social media yesterday, I was excited to see the Bridgerton Series 3 release date announced, even if...
Dec 13, 20233 min read
Neurodiverse-Affirming Mantras
In my last two posts, I've talked about some of the things that, to me, define an ND-affirming perspective. I've also come to associate...
Dec 11, 20234 min read
Uniquely Human
by Barry M. Prizant, PhD This was the first autism book recommended to me at the time of Oranguette's diagnosis. It is both highly...
Dec 6, 20235 min read
Philosophies and Therapy Approaches
If there is one single thing I wish I had known a lot sooner, it is this: there are wildly divergent philosophies regarding autism...
Dec 4, 20233 min read
Missing Road Maps?
A person (or orangutan) does not need to look too far to find examples of autistic girls and women. Some like Greta Thunberg are well...
Dec 1, 20233 min read
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams My last two blog posts have been concerned with autism diagnoses. There is another thing I'd like to say on the...
Nov 28, 20234 min read
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