#ActuallyAutistic folks on #Spotify…
I’m 73, still chasing dreams I may never catch. Especially that gut-deep need to matter as an autistic elder.
This 41-sec clip is a taste. Click for the full Walmart-to-rage-to-hope story:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pXnubNKBWCkiparH9xJ06?si=Tqyjci5wRPCKJcAMLZrf7w
At 73, I'm still chasing dreams I'll never fully reach. The biggest? That gut-wrenching need to matter… So what’s left if I finally let that go?
This 55-sec clip is from my new piece “Letting Go.” For the full story… the Walmart moment that sparked it, the deep trauma & the rage-to-hope ending…
Head to #ApplePodcasts.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #SpokenWord #DisabilityPoetry #AutisticElder #Neurodivergent #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
hmmm...
Age first?
Person first?
Identity first?
I could use your input. I am planning... Or getting my mojo up for...
My first livestream on subStack. Something like "Ask an [Old Autistic Fart Anything]"...
What's proper... for an #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticElder
@Susan60 @BernieDoesIt @olena @actuallyautistic
I shutdown often. As a survival strategy it is safer than meltdown.
Behind the calm persona I present is cacophony & unrelenting chaos. Trying to describe what it’s like - living with amplified & unfiltered sensory experience, made survivable by hyperlexia, ott pattern recognition & careful routines - to someone who doesn’t perceive & resonate with it immediately is just too hurtful. It’s often frightening & lonely in here. Sometimes joyous. Always intense.
Imagine if we all learned to recognise differences & respect consent. We don’t need to understand someone’s experience in order to respect their choices.
It’s ok being us.
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 #AutisticElder
Anyone who experiences sensory sensitivities or lives with someone who does, please read this piece by the lovely Bec Shaw.
The distress she describes has been my experience all my life also. My triggers are certain high frequencies - from radio (the transistor radios of my childhood are THE WORST!), tv (ads!), music (electric guitar! brass! violin!), machinery (metal on metal!) - even at volumes so low as to be inaudible to everyone else these sounds are absolute torture to me. My response to them is uncontrollable. I will do Anything to escape. (This happens with fragrances also. It’s so fun being me. Never embarrassing 🙈.)
I don’t call it misophonia. (Sounds like fear of miso & that is just silly.) I see it as a sensory sensitivity that sits within the wide range of what it is to be human.
I want us to be able to safely name these things, & then to respect & accomodate each other’s experiences.
This is a start.
@actuallyautistic #SensorySensitivities #Misophonia #AutisticElder #neurodiversity
My colleague Marion Hersh joined Doug Blecher on his #Autism Stories podcast to recount the history of our #CalmSpaces project - by and for #AutisticElders -, the importance of the sensory environment and also her other project about recommender systems for #blind, partially sighted and #Autistic people.
#Podcast
https://www.autismpersonalcoach.com/autismstories/episode/2cf93776/autism-stories-marion-hersh
Calm Spaces website & forum
https://calmspaces.org
#ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #AutisticElder #AutisticOver50 @actuallyautistic
We already have #AutisticOver50 and #AutisticElder /info
wtf is the name of that autistic group on here?
And was it a profile bot thing or a hashtag?
It's a group thing you tag (somehow!) that then @s the rest of the people following it?
(Do I count as an #AutisticElder if I'm over 30 years old?)
bwahahahah tis ActuallyAutistic, of both!
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