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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 my passions and achievements in grade school, followed by when I was living on my own in College post legally Emancipating from said abusive parents at 17 years old. That is painful for me because it reminds me of how alone I was, not just alienated socially often but at home due to hiding away from the domestic violence and drug use that went on all those years in my parents’ (separate) homes.
So when I think about my late realized neurodivergence, it is like a rebirthing process. A deep one. Where I get to surf back through memories and hold onto the only things that ever brought me happiness. My art. My writing. My late night hyper-fixations hiding alone in my room as an only child with completely reckless parents.
I think about the passion I had for writing in the school paper, how I got featured in People Magazine (link in footer) for my blogging passions (which featured me talking about the trauma and abuse from childhood). I…
