Life is rarely perfect, but it can be blandly normal. I admit that 2024 wasn’t easy. It ended badly. At least it wasn’t quite like how eventful 2023 was, with an ICU visit I’d rather not repeat. For now, I am attempting to accept the bland normalcy of life in…
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General topics.
Teavana was one of my favorite mall-based stores. I loved walking into a Teavana, sampling the two or three brews they had on display, and browsing the store. I have a heavy, jade-green Asian-style teapot and a plastic loose-leaf tea infuser from Teavana. My favorite teas were purchased at Teavana…
Sock seams, shirt tags, tight watch bands, and high collars. These are a few of autistics least favorite things. The tag-less t-shirt wasn’t a new invention, since tags were added long after shirts were first made or sold, but I’m so glad they are the norm today. I cannot recall…
People like to control their spaces. We like to make our bedrooms “ours” as children. As college students, we decorate our dorm rooms or first apartments for our comfort and to signal our personalities and preferences to others. Cultures consider spaces important, too. Feng Shui or geomancy are cultural beliefs…
Please, during this holiday season, remember to respect every child’s or adult’s preferences: DO NOT: Force someone to hug other people, even family members. Insist on “sitting still” in stressful situations. Demand silence when the individual is trying to communicate stress. Refuse to excuse anyone from a crowded, noisy, overloaded…
Moving isn’t easy for anyone. It is one of the most stressful life events we experience, yet people move several times during their lives. We know that moving depends on many factors, and some of those are also stressful. We move to… Pursue our career goals. Remain employed when transferred. Attend…
The Autistic Me has been silent for much of 2019 because so many things are happening (mainly good things) that I don’t believe are appropriate to share until those things are finalized. We’ve been parents since October 2015. It became official this year, when the adoption of our daughters was…
We rely a lot on the reliability of various Internet service providers. We expect our broadband service to function at a reasonable speed every minute of every day. We expect any “essential” services for our businesses to be online and functioning. When Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or any other…
Time for my annual rejection of Autism Awareness Day and Month. No thank you, we’re all overly “aware” of autism. There are puzzle-piece car magnets and bumper stickers in the parking lot I use at the university. Local businesses have the “light it up blue” posters in their windows. Local…
I love the crime drama Vincent, a tightly-written series that ran on ITV in 2005 and 2006. There’s talk of a revival of the series, which is performing well on Amazon Prime and other streaming services. I recommended the series to friends after watching the first two episodes. Following episode three,…