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A weekly newsletter on being different by a non-binary, autistic person with ADHD.

Venice. Tall white buildings stand against a blue sky. The middle one has columns and a cross on top.

Yearly Theme Review

I believe that attempting to force restart your life 6 days after Christmas when you’ve probably got a tax return to start is a bad idea. Setting New Year Resolutions is setting yourself up for anxiety leading to depression. Unless, oddly, that’s your resolution but then if you

Black and white photo. People taking photos from Brooklyn promenade of the Manhattan skyline.

Hello 2023

Word up! It’s 2023! I hope you’re as happy as a sandboy, which is apparently a thing meaning blissfully happy. That sounds like a nice place to be. It goes without saying, which is why I’m writing this, that it’s OK to be as happy as

At dusk a single street light is turned on illuminating the promenade.

Happy Queermas?

Let’s put a pin in Christmas for now. I’m half way through and I’m at the stage all I want for Christmas is not be disabled, able to just do stuff and not suffer from depression. My brain does not make it easy to do anything. I’

Dusk on the banks of the River Mersey. A new moon rises and there's a slight orange glow on the horizon behind the city of Li

Happy Queermas

After spending the last few weeks wondering, “What is Christmas? Why is Christmas? Who is Christmas?” I bumped into a phrase via BBC 6 Music. Queermas. My brain lit up. Queermas! By Jove, they’re onto something. Would it be possible to dump the issues with Christmas and instead celebrate

Stars in the sky above the Liverpool waterfront.

Acceptance

That is all I want for Christmas. Acceptance and whisky. Double up on the acceptance please and thank you.

The Milky Way galaxy floats in a sea of stars above a bay with mountains on the horizon.

Was my camera an early stimming toy?

A few years ago I found some Super 8 mm film footage of me playing with a camera as a young boy. I may have been 4 or 5 at the time. The camera has a range finder like look to it, but I doubt my parents were able to