Being an Autistic Web Designer & Content Creator requires unmasking in ways that simultaneously have me healing multitudes of past trauma.
A behind the scenes of how I combat the urge to MASK in my own work as a Content Creator and how I stay on track with my own authentic, unmasked voice when creating. (P.S. it is hard, but possible).
Hello friends! If you are new to my blog, I have been writing about my late realized Neurodivergence journey for almost two years now. But I have been writing on the internet (predating Vocal and Medium) for two decades. Dating back to being a Newspaper Columnist in Community College and even thriving in Journalism class in High School enough to get recognition.
I LOVE WRITING and I do it sometimes even easier than breathing ( hello Autistic gasping). I am prefacing with all of this to say that every piece of writing I have ever published was evidence of my Autism and ADHD, but I did not even know it.
I have no family other than my husbands’ small family and our kids. I am no contact with my abusive parents for 16 years now, as well as cut off from all relatives on both their sides. It is hard for me to get stories from my family about my childhood through teen years in order to piece together my Autistic identity. I can only work with what I have ever done regarding…