Listening to journalists try to make any kind of sense out of Trump's erratic, unjust, and self-centered actions is strangely reminiscent of an abused person trying to make their abuser's actions fit into some kind of neat box of explanation. It won't. That's part of why it is toxic.

People enjoy parties? They don't get immediately overwhelmed and over-stimulated? They can concentrate on one conversation even though five others are happening six inches away? They don't need a sensory deprivation chamber to recover after? #actuallyautistic #howdoipeople #laterinlifeselfdiagnosed

Didn't watch TV for a week: went to bed earlier, spent more time outside, and read more. This week's challenge: no eating out. Gotta pack those lunches and make yummy drinks at home! I think this will be harder than no TV. Just curious about tweaking things in my life, seeing what happens.

Days are a little longer, temps climb into the mild low to mid 50s, early flowers start poking through the dirt, and the feel of Spring (finally!) being on the way is palpable. It makes me want to twirl with my arms out, frolic in the sunshine and DO ALL THE THINGS! #pnwspring #gooutside #grateful

Walking some dogs, I pass by teenagers kissing in the rain and I wonder how they can stand having the water splash them directly in the face like that. I want new silverware but need to be able to feel it first. Can't handle the constraining feeling of a bra. #autisticproblems #sensorysensitivity

How do you know if you've actually processed trauma? My therapist describes it as putting the descriptor words, emotions, and body sensations that go with an event together so that it is no longer all disconnected and disjointed in your body & psyche (my summary of her words). #trauma #healing

Just finished #Younger (obsessed!!!) on Netflix. I'm going do a TV cleanse for a week to reset my palate and to see what I do with that time (maybe I have more of it, time that is, than I thought). Also no overwhelmed news scrolling, just #BreakingPoints and #WeCanDoHardThings, to keep it balanced.

I've been thinking about making period blood art for a while. I'm in the last few years of menstruating and it feels like a powerful thing to do. The idea same to me and I can't quite seem to shake it, so there's something there for sure. Will I actually do it? We'll see....

Micro-dosing shamanic grade psilocybin has shifting things for me in subtle yet huge ways. Example: I realized a few weeks ago in a session with my therapist that I've been living in fight or flight for YEARS. Decades. Maybe my whole life. How wild that I didn't know that! And now I do. What's next?

I saw a friend today that I hadn't seen in a long time. She's a single mom who, in 2021, lost her son (to an overdose) and her thriving business (thanks pandemic). And she amazes me with her desire to not just keep going, but to truly thrive and stay open to life and what it still has to offer her ✨️

Does anyone else experience what could be called profound shifts while being really sick? Like the heat of the fever burns away things that have been clouding my perspective and helps distill what's truly important. Yep, having one of those moments this week.