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Autism

Lifting my Gag Order, or Last Year was a Travesty

This is another post that I wrote at the very beginning of the summer. I have edited it significantly for chronological context and ease of reading, but I want my readers to know that my mindset at the time of actually writing this post was months ago. Last year wasn’t a good year. That’s not …
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It’s Dangerous to Compare

We’re all guilty of it. We compare ourselves to everyone, our children to their peers, our spouses to our friends’ spouses. We measure our houses, our cars, our jobs against others’. Everyone gets sucked into “Keeping Up with the Joneses” sometimes. It’s an especially dangerous game to play when you have a high functioning autistic …
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