Mental Health
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Where life began
I’ve wanted to write down what led to my mental health crisis in 2019. I’d graduated from college and was working in my second job as an Activities Director. I wasn’t meeting expectations, and going to work every day felt like a constant reminder of how much of a failure I was. I had…
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We Must Do Better
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the generations of those with autism spectrum disorder in my family, myself included. While life has gotten better with each subsequent generation, there is still so much work to do. I can only speak to what it’s like trying to navigate this world as an adult…
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Diagnosis At Last
My path to an autism diagnosis began after a series of mental health challenges caused the upheaval of my professional and private life. A relationship and a job had ended. In the throes of self-loathing and depression, I wanted to understand why I operated in the world the way I did. It had been suggested…
