Archive for January 2014

What I Cannot Change   Leave a comment

This time is difficult for me.
It roars
with ghosts
that I am not allowed
To mourn

Posted January 27, 2014 by itsbridgetsword in autism, autistic families, depression

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Always a Girl, part two (Guest post at NeuroQueer)   1 comment

Three completely unrelated facts:
I am autistic.
I am queer.
I was consistently misgendered as a child.

Growing up, these three facts were treated as one pathological whole. Girls are soft and warm. They communicate with others. They show affection easily. If only they could make me more feminine, the rest would fall into place. Meltdowns were viewed as acts of aggression; violent masculine behavior. Surely if they could not curtail the masculine behavior it would irreparably damage my development…(read more)

Posted January 9, 2014 by itsbridgetsword in autism, autistic families, lgbtq

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