disability

Now that you’ve got a clearer picture, hopefully, of what autism looks like in my life and the mechanisms involved, I want to explain a bit about why I, personally, would not want my autism “cured,” were I offered the choice. Maybe you think that it sounds awful. Being frequently assaulted by unfriendly sensory stimuli, not understanding the unspoken social rules, feeling distress at small changes that you feel you really shouldn’t mind, losing communities because you just can’t let go of things that no… Read More »I Wouldn’t Change It