Curate, connect, and discover
my dad just came back from shopping within autism hours where they don't play music or announcements and dim the lights at the local mall and he said it was the best shopping experience he'd had in a while.
Now I know people who aren't autistic also benefit from a non-overstimulating environment. But when I tell you I got a vivid flashback to me telling my therapist I might be autistic and since there's a genetic component maybe one of my parents is and she was like "and which parent do you thinn exhibits these [autistic] behaviours?" and I said my dad and she said "Yes that's also what I thought."
Everyday I rue the one therapy session my dad went to when he was younger and he sat there in silence for one hour. Dad you could've changed my life.
will there ever be something as wrecking to me as characters crying for their moms. like seriously. give me a perfectly stable adult character, make them say "I want my mom" in a moment of vulnerability and watch me unzip my skin to use it as a tissue.