Follow All Your Passions

People always tell us, or at least they always tell me, to follow my passion. Singular form: passion. They sound like there is just one path, one thing that will really make us happy and all we have to do is find the one thing that makes us truly happy. Like it’s all you need to do, then the world …

Not Quite a Bad Day

We all know those bad days that come out of nowhere and catch you unaware. Those days are common enough, but mainly we just tend to remember them very well. Good days are somehow less memorable, even though I wish it was the other way around. Don’t we all? There are some days I dislike more than the bad days …

Surviving Our Expectations

What is life really like on the spectrum? Sometimes I think the key to a happy life, when we’ve been diagnosed with something like autism spectrum disorder, is more about how we manage our expectations than anything else. When I was a child I remember sitting in the back of a car with a classmate, we were about 8 I …