Secure Alone
What is loneliness and what purpose does it serve? What is it like to never be lonely? An Autistic point of view.
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Letting Him Out
IÂ had a boy nobody knew about: a feeble autistic child. I was barely an adult myself when I put him away. I had no options. And I told no one what I did.
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Secure Alone
What is loneliness and what purpose does it serve? What is it like to never be lonely? An Autistic point of view.
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Hello Again
Read my commitment to writing again for Living Amongst Humans.
I discuss the hiatus, my return, and what to expect from me in the future.
I will continue to focus on Autism, bringing into the conversation what I have learned over the years while living amongst humans.
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Infographic - The Autism Epidemic
Autism is often identified as an epidemic. This graphic looks at the reality behind the autism epidemic and not just the hype.
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Holding On For Life
Doug was my voice.
He was my heart.
I was his mind.
He was brave and brash.
I figured things out.
I held him when he took his life.
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In Memoriam
Sherell Jacobson. November 3, 1928 - July 23, 2017
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A Conversation with a Friend
Jim, I just finished reading "Letting Him Out." I'm sorry you've suffered for decades, protecting that little autistic boy inside you. But I'm glad you're considering letting him out of that walled prison you've kept him in all these years. I like knowing the real you.
Thank you, but I don't get enough credit for how well I've done without him. I've accomplished a lot — so much that people don't recognize the sacrifices I've made. They can't see my deep scars. It is so tirin
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What a Shame
I have cursed myself, as a matter of survival. As a child, walking past a table of classmates in the cafeteria, and hearing their mocking laughter, I avoided emotional collapse only by — paradoxically — supporting the claims of my tormentors. I distracted myself from their words by doubling down with internal, vile self-indictment. Somehow my uncontrollable mind screams were able to mask the external cruelty.
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The Passing of a Generation
Passing had a bad rap. The autistic survivors of lost generations need a different message: be proud. You passed to survive.
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A Mind Apart
As a child, I needed three skills to effectively communicate with humans. First was the physical capacity to vocalize. Check. The next requirement was a reasonable vocabulary. Roger. The last ability was putting my voice together with the right language to express myself. Two out of three ain’t bad.
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Infographic - What Causes Autism?
People have been searching for the cause of autism for decades.
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Hello Again
Read my commitment to writing again for Living Amongst Humans.
I discuss the hiatus, my return, and what to expect from me in the future.
I will continue to focus on Autism, bringing into the conversation what I have learned over the years while living amongst humans.
3 min read
The Telling of the Land and the People
When the People did not exist, when the Land did not exist, when all there was was starlight, it was enough. And so it existed before time started. Timeless, the Stars sang to each other without beat, without rhythm. It was enough.
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Boundary Issues
I study humans as a matter of survival. I need to understand how humans work, because I live in a world full of them. I notice things about them that they don’t recognize themselves. For example, humans define boundaries. It's how they make sense of the world, how they organize it, how they pigeonhole all of its myriad bits.
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