The art world is Social (not mine! brilliant post by Sonia Boue — reblogged)

Originally posted on The other side:
The title for this blog post is a quote which comes from an article published by Shape Arts called How to Get an Exhibition. It’s an article “adapted to suit disabled artists and sit alongside Shape’s own resources…” I’ll quote a fuller excerpt, “The art world is Social and…

Restructuring

Meltdowns can build up over time or happen seemingly out of nowhere going from zero to 100 in a second. This is about the ‘build up over time’ — over months, type of meltdown, and I struggled to put this into words. Since originally posting, months after it happened, recent conversations with autistic friends, not directly……

The Playing Field

The girl stood on the edge of the playing field, alone. Always on the edge. Always alone. Always watching, even when it looked as if she wasn’t. Someone might come up behind her, might speak to her, expecting a reply, and she would feel compelled to utter some kind of sound, to express herself, to……

mute — from Dutch smelten to melt, make fluid

‘Misconstrued’ My words are glass and mirrors in your presence.   Might they fall in love — with not speaking? Hiding words away in desks under chairs behind doors in classrooms until they are broken?   Raw words Leak Spill Drip, bloody through cupped hands.   And boundaries? Mine are air and mist Unconsidered You assume And……

Interviewing Autistic Individuals

Originally posted on Everyday Asperger's:
? 1. When being interviewed for a potential job, adults on the autistic spectrum may appear as one of two extremes: 1) overly confident with an almost false persona or 2) extremely nervous and apologetic. 2. Rarely, during an interview, is an autistic jobseeker feeling at ease and content,…

unrequited love

Wanting To be like you   Another lead balloon Hangs in the air between us   Waiting   You carry on regardless   We chat Laugh   Wondering You make it look so easy Seeing Hearing Feeling Touching Thinking   While Transparent Hearing colour Touching sound Feeling words Seeing thought   Until you stop   Waiting  ……

diversity and a piece of white plastic

Autistic senses are tuned to pick up things, notice things, that others do not, as Rhi@OutFoxgloved wonderfully describes in this post ‘The day my autism saved my daughters life.’  Delicate antennae that are tuned into everything can result in overload and not picking up on things that might seem obvious to neurotypical people — like realising……