The picture above was found on Unsplash, after I entered “autism” in the search menu, and looks nothing like me, as I am a 40 year old woman. But somehow it manages to capture exactly what I felt like as a child, struggling with my undiagnosed nuerodiversity, lonely, eager for…

I wish I could forget it. It started like a normal day, a normal Monday. I had lots of work to do, a busy schedule, not much time to think. Each day, I have to see and write the date several times. As a teacher, I see the date on…

Grief is unpredictable. Yesterday was a productive, frustrating day. The workday just kept throwing me curveballs. First I missed a page when copying assignments at the printer, leading to confusion for my students. Then everyone needed something during my 5 minute break and I couldn’t get to the bathroom, then…

She didn’t like cleaning, or letting others use common spaces. What could go wrong? It’s late May, 2018, and I need a place to live, ASAP. Since my marriage had fallen apart, I had been renting a room in a house with some friends, but it was only temporary, they…

Sometimes it’s the little things that wake us up. When was the moment you knew your marriage couldn’t continue? That the circumstances between you and your spouse were so dire, you couldn’t stay married. Another writer on medium coined the term “Latte Moment” when she realized her husband would never…

It only took 19 years. April, 2019. The morning light shinned in the corner windows. The white walls reflected the stark classroom. I had decoracted them with home-made posters and student artwork, but the classroom was still big with huge, white walls that craved color. The old one-piece desks were…

He doesn’t want her to meet my niece. I love my family. I love them a lot. Growing up, I often got the feeling I didn’t necessarily fully belong in the area I was growing up. As the youngest, I always felt like I was in somebody’s shadow. Everyone knew…