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

The shadows

hello friend It’s Friday. Did you have a good week? I’ve been trying out a mood tracking app called Moodpath to ask me questions randomly throughout the day and track my mood. Most times I say I feel blank. Not empty. Just blank. Devoid of emotion. Today though

The Netherlands

hello friend Happy New Year. Did you have a good time? I hope it is what you needed and not what society expected. We spent a few days post Christmas and pre-New Year in Amsterdam followed by New Year in The Hague. It has been interesting and quite different to

Christmas complexity

hello friend This is the end of a week, month, year and decade. How are you? Was Christmas ok? We spent it in a pocket universe. We normally spend it at my in-laws who live around 350 miles away. Christmas for me is difficult because I’m taken away from

Hugs

hello friend How’s things? You doin ok? I was forced to bed early last night due to a migraine. I spent 12 hrs in bed and feel exhausted. It’s raining outside. It’s cold. I’m stuck inside and I can’t really look at my computer or

Being right

hello friend I was never the cool kid at school. I knew of Oasis and Blur but honestly I had no idea why they were at war. Sonic vs Mario, that I understood. I was the kid who gave a presentation on the USS Enterprise D. When another guy did

Questioning Christmas

hello friend Christmas will soon be upon us. Every year I question it. It’s never been easy for me and I understand that part of those issues is down to being autistic. Christmas food isn’t for me. I don’t do wet food so eating dry overcooked Christmas