I'm trying something scary.

I've been stuck in my #writing (again).

I've been stuck in my #art (again).

I've been creatively backed up (again).

I've gotten too deep into my head (again and always and forever, amen).

So I'm trying something: I'm releasing this weird #creative experiment into the world. To challenge myself. To (hopefully? maybe?) help others get "unstuck."

I'd love if anyone out there gave it a look. And I’d be utterly thrilled if you told me about it.

https://fromemily.com/creative-ex-lax-experiment/

@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blogging #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #IndieWeb #MentalHealth #Artist #SmallWeb #FromEmily

I've been thinking a lot lately about how porous our identities are: how we are shaped by every experience, person, bit of information.

How this shaping means losing parts of ourselves...or at least who we would have been without external influences.

It brought to mind a piece I wrote about the drive to retrieve, catalogue & preserve a sense of self amidst this loss of #identity:

https://fromemily.com/recollecting-hailey/

#writing #WritersofMastodon #WritingCommunity #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #FromEmily

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...

But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.

So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.

I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain: https://fromemily.com/open-letter-to-my-body-and-public-apology/

@actuallyautistic

#ChronicIllness #HealthCare #ChronicPain #spoonie #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blog #writing #MentalHealth #FromEmily

I wrote a new thing...

...and it's not what I meant to write...

...but it's what I needed to

https://fromemily.com/every-choice-a-million-deaths/

@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #blogging #SmallWeb
#IndieWeb #grief #FromEmily

I've spent a lifetime making myself smaller for everyone.

Making myself the version of me that was most useful and comfortable for everyone around me.

And I *HAVE* to stop before I disappear.

I wrote about learning to TAKE UP SPACE: https://fromemily.com/space-taking-defiance/

Maybe you've made yourself smaller too? Let's TAKE UP SPACE together.

@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #mentalhealth #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #writing #FromEmily #SmallWeb #writersofmastodon

I want to be in dialogue with my #website my work, and the people who find it. Not have it be just a space where I publish posts and #art, but a living work itself. I want to engage with and collaborate with it. I want to inform it and for it to inform me.

- from my evolving "Website Manifesto": https://fromemily.com/website-manifesto/

#SmallWeb #writing #blogging #mastoart #writing #writingcommunity #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #FromEmily

Hi. I'm terrified.

I've been trying to make my own space on the web for years. And I've been stuck. Badly.

But today is my birthday. And I refuse to let another year pass without putting something—anything—out there

So here it is in all its messy glory. My first post on my barely-there #website: https://fromemily.com/hi-im-terrified/

It's not great. But it's okay...enough

And I hope it means something to someone

@actuallyautistic

#SmallWeb #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #writing #blogging #FromEmily