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

New Year, who dis?

New Year, who dis?

Happy New Year. My brain is telling me that logically nothing has changed since yesterday. This isn’t a magical reset day. We don’t exist in the Star Trek Voyager universe and maybe that’s for the best? Imagine being Harry Kim for 7 years. Yikes! Anywho just a

Seasons Greetings

Seasons Greetings

Seasons Greetings. To borrow a message from a user on a Discord I’m on. You are wonderful. It’s the Christmas season. It’s complex. I’m writing this on the Winter Solstice. Yesterday was the longest night. Today marks the time when the nights get shorter and the

Christmasticle - It's a Christmas Listicle

Christmasticle - It's a Christmas Listicle

Since my dad died 4 years ago I’ve accidentally become a fan of Nordic Christmas. In Iceland in 2017 we drank Tuborg Julebryg for New Year and watched the fireworks outside the Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavík. I love their liquorice infused chocolate. I treat myself to a bar of

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Hello there. How are you? Please be ok and remember that it’s ok if you’re not ok. I am… mulls not ok. One of the things I like about writing is using it to process my thoughts. It helps to write about something instead of over-thinking and worrying.

Avoiding triggers with Twitter mute filters

hello computer Merry December and a happy next Thursday? How are you? I’m trying to be ok. I just wrote 1,000 words. Deleted them and made a coffee. Why? I was getting more and more upset with each sentence. I couldn’t pin point why exactly and that

Christmas. It's complex.

hello computer Christmas. What is Christmas? Webster’s dictionary defines it as; a Christian feast on December 25 or among some Eastern Orthodox Christians on January 7 that commemorates the birth of Christ and is usually observed as a legal holiday I was raised Catholic but I found religion to

Video Games and anxiety revisited

hello computer Back in August I was having some trouble with anxiety and I wondered if gaming could help? There are all sorts of therapies that people find helpful these days. Art, music, ceramics, drawing, getting out into nature and wild swimming. But gaming? This week various media outlets reported