Some Chick

(My) autism and (my) relationship

Against a smoky-looking background that shades from gray on the left to pink on the right, a woman (right) in a white, short-sleeved shirt and jeans, with her dark hair pulled into a low ponytail, accepts a long-stemmed red carnation from a gray and silver robot arm (left) — not the humanoid kind, just a robotic arm with a pincer hand and, for some reason, a flower. The woman is humanoid. It’s just the robot arm that isn’t.

A common assumption/stereotype/fear around autistic people is that we’ll never be able to maintain a romantic relationship. And it is true that the social challenges many of us face can make it difficult to initiate and sustain relationships, whether the partner is autistic or neurotypical. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Yes, maybe they’re aContinue reading “(My) autism and (my) relationship”

Autism Speaks, and NPR + Autism Speaks

Before I begin, I want to emphasize that everything in this post is accurate to my knowledge, but don’t take it as gospel because my knowledge isn’t comprehensive or impeccable. Moving on: NPR is sponsored by Autism Speaks. (That, I know to be accurate with 100-percent certainty.) I don’t know how long this has beenContinue reading “Autism Speaks, and NPR + Autism Speaks”

Shit Some Autistic Chicks Say

Okay, specifically, it’s shit Some Autistic Chick says (IYMOAPYMOAP), because there are things I find myself saying a lot. And I’ve always said them. It’s just only (relatively) recently that I’ve understood why I’ve always beens saying them. As with so many things in my life, these are things I didn’t understand until I gotContinue reading “Shit Some Autistic Chicks Say”

How I beat the autism quizzes

Ha! Suck it, online quizzes! I win! Okay, no, I didn’t actually beat the online “Am I autistic?” quizzes. What would be the point of taking the time to take the quizzes while trying to game them? Honestly, I didn’t beat them so much as I took them and found the results unexpectedly lukewarm. TheContinue reading “How I beat the autism quizzes”

“Everyone’s a little autistic.”

… I mean, every autistic person is autistic. And not just a little bit. Just to start: A little autistic isn’t a thing. Autism is, technically, a pervasive developmental disorder, so there’s no such thing as having that “just a little.” Now, every autistic person experiences their autism in their own way (I feel likeContinue reading ““Everyone’s a little autistic.””

Autistic traits you don’t see on the teevee

If we know anything about autistic people, it’s that they’re stone-faced, genius, antisocial assholes who are really good at math and see numbers and diagrams floating in the air every time they need to solve a problem. If they’re not that, they don’t talk or make eye contact and just walk around flapping their handsContinue reading “Autistic traits you don’t see on the teevee”

So I started a blog, or whatever.

I did. I started a blog about being autistic. I suppose it would be great to say that I want the world to better understand the everyday life of an autistic person, or something, but the truth is, I just have things to say from time to time and nowhere to say them. All thoseContinue reading “So I started a blog, or whatever.”