#Medium readers... If your family history feels like a knot of secrets & pain, you’re not alone.

I’m an autistic elder born in 1953. That's 7 decades of American history twisting my own neurodivergent family. Here's one refuge I found...

Check out ‘Slouching toward Montauk’ and see if it lands for you: text, illustrations, video, and podcast in one place.

• https://medium.com/artfullyautistic/autistic-elder-on-this-moment-slouching-toward-montauk-00b199d21d7f

American history… is complex. Never more glaringly obvious than this moment.

American family histories are twisted, braided, intertwined… sometimes strangled by that history.

This piece offers no fixes or safe moves. But it sheds a kind of light… a kind of refuge….

If you watch, I’d love to know: does any part of this echo in your own family story?

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