For over 80% of my life I felt like I was walking alone. Not in the religious sense, but alone in that I had no one around me who understood me. Especially me before I was diagnosed with Asperger’s,

Let’s jump in the Way Back Machine (did anyone catch the…

I recently received an email from a woman who said that she is over 50 and has been dating a man for four months now who is on the spectrum and mentioned that he was very upfront about it right from the beginning.

First off, good for him for owning…

This piece mentions suicide. If that’s a trigger for you, please choose from some pieces that wont be triggering.

It starts with clapping. A couple of moments later, the guitar starts a fast-paced rhythmic thing.

The drums, bass, and turntable come in to round out the sound.

Finally, the late…

We all have goals in life. When it comes to writing for Medium, we definitely have goals.

I joined Medium in September, posted a handful of pieces, but nothing much. Then I took all of November off and picked up again on December 15. …

Once again people are talking about autism being caused by vaccines. Every time people bring this up I scratch my head and wonder how the heck they come to this conclusion.

You see, I’m on the spectrum and thus think very logically. If you look at this logically you can’t…

Am I the only one getting dizzy from looking at the picture?

Dis-abled. Disabled.

What’s the difference? Well, the first one is a verb and is something that is being done to us. We are actively being disabled; usually by the environment we’re in.

The second is an adjective and…

We’ve all failed. Some fails were epic, while others were simply stumbles in the road. I work full time as an autism self-advocate; writing, speaking to groups as large as 4,000, as well as podcasting and live streaming.

I’ve stumbled along the way and some of my failures were hardly…

We Learn Something About Our Selves Every Day

Things both good and bad teach us lessons

You live, you learn
You love, you learn
You cry, you learn
You lose, you learn
You bleed, you learn
You scream, you learn

Alanis Morrissette

As a fan of singer Alanis Morrissette from as far back as the early 1990s, I…