Geeky Science Mom
@geekysciencemom
I also write the blog, Autism Unfurling that can be found at http://autismunfurling.wordpress.com.
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My newest blog! There is a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson - “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” #ActuallyAutistic #ASD #Healing #Community #Belonging autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/fig…
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Fighting to be Authentic and Finding Ways to Belong
We live in a world where people are expected to fit into certain boxes. If you are born with certain body parts, then you are expected to fit a certain role. If you are born with a different set of…
Do you know what a "Wendy" is? Here is my story of how I became one and how I am healing. #wendysyndrome #ActuallyAutistic #trauma #healing #peterpansyndrome autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/lea…
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Learning Not to Be a “Wendy”
There once was a girl who felt that she needed to fix everything. Not cars, or houses, but emotions. She felt she needed to make people feel better. This was how she created safety around her, help…
My newest blog! “True emotional healing doesn’t happen without feeling. The only way out is through.” – Jessica Moore #ActuallyAutistic #ComplexPTSD #MentalHealth #Therapy #Trauma autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2024/06/16/the…
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The Girl in the Tunnel
(Content Warning: Mentions Suicidal ideation.) “True emotional healing doesn’t happen without feeling. The only way out is through.” – Jessica Moore There once was a girl so terrified, so vigilant,…
My newest blog! " That rarely talked about next step is providing space to feel the emotional memories. Allowing yourself to sit with those feelings without judgement involves experiencing grief and sadness." #ActuallyAutistic #trauma #healing #recovery autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/a-d…
My newest blog! "Over the years, whenever I find myself at this high level of stress, a song begins to play in my head, but not the whole song, just a portion. #ActuallyAutistic #Trauma #Healing #Grief #EltonJohn autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2023/09/08/goo…
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
When you think about what grief looks like and how it feels, what comes to mind? Do you picture someone crying? Maybe sitting alone looking out a window? Maybe looking distraught at a funeral and e…
My newest blog! "Emotions can be messy and difficult to manage. Emotions aren’t bad or good or right or wrong, emotions just are. They exist as a messaging system to our minds and bodies." #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #trauma #grief #grieving #enmeshment autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2023/07/16/bei…
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Being Enmeshed Versus Being Fused
Content Warning: Discussion about trauma, abuse and grief. Emotions can be messy and difficult to manage. Emotions aren’t bad or good or right or wrong, emotions just are. They exist as a messaging…
Newest blog! This was a tough piece to write. Keep holding on! #ActuallyAutistic #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #ComplexPTSD #Healing autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/a-l…
Newest blog! I feel like I am living on borrowed time. #ActuallyAutistic #Stress #Depression #Anxiety #Suicide #ComplexPTSD #ASD autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2023/05/08/bor…
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Borrowed Time
I am living on borrowed time. What do I mean by that? I wrote an blog back in 2018 titled, To Those Who Still Don’t Understand, and it focused on how people with autism died an average of 16 years …
My newest blog! "Grief is hard. Grieving is even harder. I need to let my grief flow out away from me like ripples on a pond, but I don’t seem to be able to. I am stuck in my grief, unable to grieve." #ActuallyAutistic #Grief #Grieving autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/fin…
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Finding a Way to Grieve
Ripples in a pool of water gliding across the surface growing wider and wider apart. Rain drops gently falling from the sky. The smell of freshness in the air. The world being cleansed by a gentle …
This writing is a product of using the process of storytelling to explain a recent trauma therapy session I had. This particular session was a big eye opener for me. #ActuallyAutistic #Trauma #Therapy autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/fin…
Finding Myself Newest blog! “This writing is a product of using the process of storytelling to explain a recent trauma therapy session I had. This particular session was a big eye opener for me. Even though it was very difficult to get... tmblr.co/ZqWG7udJPTNpCq…
Struggling My husband clued into something last night that really hit the mark. I am not running on fumes after burnout set in, I am running on the inertia left over from running out of fumes all together. I am that disconnected from my own... tmblr.co/ZqWG7ud84ma-OW…
My newest blog! "I had been running a race, keeping myself in front of the burnout, but just one more extra stress tipped the scales and burnout caught up and tackled me to the ground." #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticBurnout autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/aut…
Autistic Burnout – Here we go again! My newest blog! “I really thought I had been holding the line. I recognized the warning signs and was practicing my mindfulness strategies, taking time to rest (when I could), exercising, working with my... tmblr.co/ZqWG7ucyUg1Sya…
"I want to break certain rules while also wanting to yell at people for breaking other rules. This is a contradiction. How could both realities exist simultaneously?" #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Trauma #ComplexPTSD #Rules autismunfurling.wordpress.com/2022/09/11/rul…
Rules and the Need to Break Them My newest blog! “Rules are important, at least that is how I was taught. Rules are put there for a reason and must be followed … except when the rules don’t make any sense, except when the rules end up hurting... tmblr.co/ZqWG7ucbbMn00m…
"I need to stop trying to answer the question of what I want to do with my life with an answer that I think I am supposed to say and just answer from the heart." #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Life #Struggles autismunfurling.wordpress.com/?p=2624&previe…
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