Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
@julialeebarclay.bsky.social
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
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All of You is Welcome Here
You are invited to take off your mask, kick up your feet or rock side to side—the water's fine.
julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com
hey I started a Substack called Songs for The Unadapted Ones! it's for all of us with unadapted bodyminds - voluntary or involuntary... writing on autism, neurodiversity, long COVID and tools for living...join me! julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com/p/all-of-you...
Yay Catholic Bishops! Not a statement I expect to make often but this is great. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Yay Catholic Bishops! Not a statement I expect to make often but this is great. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Reposted by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
This is the most important Substack I have written so far, challenging the now fashionable idea of separating types of autistics and further challenging the tragedy narrative of what is now being referred to as “profound” autism-questioning why we value what we do.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
"How could we make ourselves water in their eyes?"
An inquiry into the real reasons motivating the desire to separate Autistics into categories and an invitation to re-consider so-called "profound" autism outside of the tragedy narrative.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is the most important Substack I have written so far, challenging the now fashionable idea of separating types of autistics and further challenging the tragedy narrative of what is now being referred to as “profound” autism-questioning why we value what we do.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
The only reason @schumer.senate.gov is voting no tonight on the total Senate cave is because @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won, and he knows he could not show his face in NYC if he caved.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The only reason @schumer.senate.gov is voting no tonight on the total Senate cave is because @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won, and he knows he could not show his face in NYC if he caved.
This is the most important Substack I have written so far, challenging the now fashionable idea of separating types of autistics and further challenging the tragedy narrative of what is now being referred to as “profound” autism-questioning why we value what we do.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
"How could we make ourselves water in their eyes?"
An inquiry into the real reasons motivating the desire to separate Autistics into categories and an invitation to re-consider so-called "profound" autism outside of the tragedy narrative.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is the most important Substack I have written so far, challenging the now fashionable idea of separating types of autistics and further challenging the tragedy narrative of what is now being referred to as “profound” autism-questioning why we value what we do.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
For the many friends of mine experiencing loss now...I wrote this about such a period of time. Reposting it now in honor of the ground glass loneliness of your grief.
Grief is a private island by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton – BURNING HOUSE PRESS share.google/h6T1y9wIBhbs...
Grief is a private island by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton – BURNING HOUSE PRESS share.google/h6T1y9wIBhbs...
Grief is a private island by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
Grief is a private island. You can only wave to people from it. Even people who have lived on that island, who may understand where you are, can only wave back. And yet the island is invisible so u…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For the many friends of mine experiencing loss now...I wrote this about such a period of time. Reposting it now in honor of the ground glass loneliness of your grief.
Grief is a private island by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton – BURNING HOUSE PRESS share.google/h6T1y9wIBhbs...
Grief is a private island by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton – BURNING HOUSE PRESS share.google/h6T1y9wIBhbs...
Had the most extraordinary experience tonight of uniting my memoir in progress with speaking about liberating autistic syntax ending with exercises from my theater practice. I'm so filled with joy and having one of those rare and beautiful moments in life when you see All of your life come together.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Had the most extraordinary experience tonight of uniting my memoir in progress with speaking about liberating autistic syntax ending with exercises from my theater practice. I'm so filled with joy and having one of those rare and beautiful moments in life when you see All of your life come together.
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An announcement about a free presentation on Liberating Autistic Syntax and also that I will send 20% of all new subscriber revenue to City Harvest until SNAP benefits are fully restored. I live on disability but am not hungry and no one should be. It's a disgrace.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Liberating Autistic Syntax this Friday and 20% of new subscriptions to City Harvest
Offerings for subscribers and ways to help hungry people until SNAP is fully restored
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
An announcement about a free presentation on Liberating Autistic Syntax and also that I will send 20% of all new subscriber revenue to City Harvest until SNAP benefits are fully restored. I live on disability but am not hungry and no one should be. It's a disgrace.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
An announcement about a free presentation on Liberating Autistic Syntax and also that I will send 20% of all new subscriber revenue to City Harvest until SNAP benefits are fully restored. I live on disability but am not hungry and no one should be. It's a disgrace.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Liberating Autistic Syntax this Friday and 20% of new subscriptions to City Harvest
Offerings for subscribers and ways to help hungry people until SNAP is fully restored
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
An announcement about a free presentation on Liberating Autistic Syntax and also that I will send 20% of all new subscriber revenue to City Harvest until SNAP benefits are fully restored. I live on disability but am not hungry and no one should be. It's a disgrace.
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
for those of you from out of town, Mamdani's win was fueled by an army of over 90K volunteers who knocked on over 3 million doors in the Whole city. It sure wasn't money. It was passion. Most of those volunteers were GenZ. The kids are alright. 🧡💙
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
for those of you from out of town, Mamdani's win was fueled by an army of over 90K volunteers who knocked on over 3 million doors in the Whole city. It sure wasn't money. It was passion. Most of those volunteers were GenZ. The kids are alright. 🧡💙
He won!!! Yeasss! Hope for NYC Congrats @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
He won!!! Yeasss! Hope for NYC Congrats @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Go vote for Mamdani my NYC friends! Last chance to vote is today! We need this change to get our city back! It's so exciting to have someone to Vote For. Don't fall for the billionaire propaganda machine against him. The only thing we have to lose is our rent increases!
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Go vote for Mamdani my NYC friends! Last chance to vote is today! We need this change to get our city back! It's so exciting to have someone to Vote For. Don't fall for the billionaire propaganda machine against him. The only thing we have to lose is our rent increases!
Go vote for Mamdani my NYC friends! Last chance to vote is today! We need this change to get our city back! It's so exciting to have someone to Vote For. Don't fall for the billionaire propaganda machine against him. The only thing we have to lose is our rent increases!
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Go vote for Mamdani my NYC friends! Last chance to vote is today! We need this change to get our city back! It's so exciting to have someone to Vote For. Don't fall for the billionaire propaganda machine against him. The only thing we have to lose is our rent increases!
If this doesn't make you vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social I honestly don't know what will.
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
If this doesn't make you vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social I honestly don't know what will.
In relation to my latest post about a way I found healing outside the norm...what experiences have you had with healing that perhaps arrived unexpectedly or in a way no one prescribes? I think this may be a more common experience than we realize. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Out of Trauma/Out of Time
essay excerpted from lyrical, researched memoir-in-progress
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In relation to my latest post about a way I found healing outside the norm...what experiences have you had with healing that perhaps arrived unexpectedly or in a way no one prescribes? I think this may be a more common experience than we realize. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Always happy to make the Substack Literature leaderboard! Would be delighted if you would check out Songs for the Unadapted Ones. Writing and tools for living from and for all the unadapted bodyminds out there from a very late diagnosed #autistic with #longcovid julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Always happy to make the Substack Literature leaderboard! Would be delighted if you would check out Songs for the Unadapted Ones. Writing and tools for living from and for all the unadapted bodyminds out there from a very late diagnosed #autistic with #longcovid julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com
In relation to my latest post about a way I found healing outside the norm...what experiences have you had with healing that perhaps arrived unexpectedly or in a way no one prescribes? I think this may be a more common experience than we realize. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Out of Trauma/Out of Time
essay excerpted from lyrical, researched memoir-in-progress
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In relation to my latest post about a way I found healing outside the norm...what experiences have you had with healing that perhaps arrived unexpectedly or in a way no one prescribes? I think this may be a more common experience than we realize. open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Reposted by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton
...When I let go of the neurotypical idea of what I'm meant to be connected to aka people...I let myself feel the connection to the world of grass and creatures and water. Which led to connecting to myself, and this aching emptiness disappeared like a mirage...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Out of Trauma/Out of Time
essay excerpted from lyrical, researched memoir-in-progress
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
...When I let go of the neurotypical idea of what I'm meant to be connected to aka people...I let myself feel the connection to the world of grass and creatures and water. Which led to connecting to myself, and this aching emptiness disappeared like a mirage...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
...When I let go of the neurotypical idea of what I'm meant to be connected to aka people...I let myself feel the connection to the world of grass and creatures and water. Which led to connecting to myself, and this aching emptiness disappeared like a mirage...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
Out of Trauma/Out of Time
essay excerpted from lyrical, researched memoir-in-progress
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
...When I let go of the neurotypical idea of what I'm meant to be connected to aka people...I let myself feel the connection to the world of grass and creatures and water. Which led to connecting to myself, and this aching emptiness disappeared like a mirage...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
open.substack.com/pub/julialee...
So the actual destruction of the White House is a little on the nose.
FFS
FFS
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
So the actual destruction of the White House is a little on the nose.
FFS
FFS
I know DFW is problematic for a lot of you but for real Infinite Jest is now a documentary not a work of dystopian fiction.
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I know DFW is problematic for a lot of you but for real Infinite Jest is now a documentary not a work of dystopian fiction.
Exactly, Jason! Good on you. I could not agree more.
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Exactly, Jason! Good on you. I could not agree more.
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I have never seen such a perfect image
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I have never seen such a perfect image