Ghost Among Us…
Generally, people think of disabilities as being characterized by physical attributes, like someone in a wheelchair or with Downs. However, there are many that live with invisible disabilities, ghosts among the fully-abled. One in five have mental illness, few diagnosed and many undiagnosed – suffering in silence, not understanding the war within their minds. Autistic suffer much the same, ghosts walking within society sharing spaces with the unwilling compromise of the neurotypical.
Love: Learning and Allowing
Emotions are a strange labyrinth within a rabbit hole for Aspies. Often, we struggle with the interpretation of social cues, missing jokes as the room fills with laughter.
The Digital Contagion
I have been reading about the effects of social media and digital technology on people, and it reminds me of the cultural climate after World War I. In no way, am I making light of the brutal reality and deaths of World War I. Like many Aspies (code of someone with Aspergers), I think in pictures, but many times my mind relates to artwork…