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  • Transitions

    I'm back in Chicago. The bus rides back were somewhat eventful, but it was okay. The biggest snafu was that after I arrived in Chicago, I waited for the Lincoln bus for forty minutes before suspecting that there might be…

  • What Disability Looks Like In Me

    I was talking to my therapist last week about my memory impairments and then I thought, No way, my memory's not that bad. And a couple days later at work I was thinking about it again, trying to pay attention to the mome…

  • Because, Y'know, I am Autistic After All

    I haven't written much lately about my sensory issues or even my social issues. Part of that is that they just haven't been bothering me the way they used to. These days, I do not have so much of the sensation of overwhe…

  • Trip to Brookfield Zoo

    Benjy and I rode the 82 to the 77 to the 331 to Brookfield Zoo. That took an hour and a half, and cost two dollars. Danny had asked to go with as we were walking out the door but I said no. I felt a little guilty about …

  • I turned in all of my schoolwork and I didn't do excellently but I did it, and that counts. One of my grades is in but I'll wait for the other two to talk about how my quarter went. I went and talked to my endocrinologi…

  • Getting Ready for Autreat

    Yesterday I went to the greyhound station downtown and bought a ticket to Bradford, Pennsylvania for 65 dollars. For some bizarre reason, the ticket that is called a 14 day advance ticket stops being available more like …

  • Getting Excited at a GRASP Meeting

    There's a squirrel in my apartment. It woke me up Saturday morning, running accross the pipe that runs right above my head. Poor scared squirrel. It looks weird, and young and small. My mother thinks its pregnant but I a…

  • Kids Songs

    For my education class, I volunteered to bring in songs for two class periods. This was the first one, and the songs were a hit (they always are). I brought in songs I'd gotten free downloads of (I only download songs wh…

  • I got a brochure in the mail from ANI about this summer's autreat. If I figure a free ride there from friends, staying for 3 days at as an adult without a full time job who is already an ANI member, subtracting food cost…

  • My mother says that when I was a baby I had lots of facial expressions that babies don't usually have. She says that she and my father thought it was very cute. I still have a lot of facial expressions that don't have mu…

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