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  • Spring has sprung
    The world is so green and bright right now! We’ve been doing our best to spend as much time as possible in nature. Everything is glorious and the sun is…More
  • Pasta
    For the last few weeks, pasta has been both a samefood and a celebratory food. We recently started being able to spend money again, after having successfully saved up for…More
  • Being Autistic and the dentist
    It’s no secret that I have a lot of trauma with the NHS, and that interaction with them is incredibly stressful for me. This very much carries across to the…More
  • Being autistic in an allistic world
    Sometimes I feel like I’m loved *despite* my autism, and not because of it. I feel like people enjoy me as long as I hide the vast majority of my…More
  • Retreating
    I found this article recently, where an autistic PhD student did a small study (of 16 autistic adults) into why autistic people need alone time. I thought it was a…More
  • Big cats
    I posted these two here when they were teeny little kittens…so it’s only fair I share them now, as giant hulking adolescents 🤣 They still bring so much happiness to…More
  • Merry Christmas!
    Happy holidays everyone, and I hope they’re as sensory friendly as possible! 😁🎄 Christmas can be very overwhelming due to all the extra social pressure and sensory input. Don’t feel…More
  • Tired
    I have a dozen almost-completed blog posts sitting in my drafts. But I just don’t have the energy to finish them up and post them. The world is wearing me…More
  • Stress & samefoods
    During times of immense stress…I kinda break as a human 😅 I lose the ability to sleep. I lose the ability to identify thirst and hunger, at all. The latter…More
  • Kittens make everything better, who knew?
    I’ve been having an especially tough time for about a month now…a collission of multiple (BIG) medical stressors, an agonising pain flare, fighting bullshit bureaucracy, and more has meant that…More

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