Autism

This article was originally posted late 2021 to the autisticinnovator.com autism blog back when I was an employee in an office job. There were a lot of links in the original article, but all the links are 5 years out of date, so I didn’t include them here. If you have been wondering what reasonable […]

This article was originally posted to the autisticinnovator.com autism blog back in early 2021. I learned I’m autistic in December 2019, so when I wrote this article I was still in my first year of autistic self-discovery realizing all the things I do that made me seem socially inept to neurotypicals, are perfectly normal amongst […]

This article was originally posted to the shop.autisticinnovator.com store blog in February 2025. Originally I was going to try making a book about stimming, but then I realized I don’t want to do that. Instead I just put everything I wrote for a book in one article and posted it. The first question we ask […]

Alexithymia is a series of traits where a person cannot recognize or understand their own emotions. People with alexithymia may have difficulties expressing their emotions. Our brains will respond to situations and images the same way a person without alexithymia does, we just cannot recognize that it is an emotion, nor describe what the emotion […]

This article was originally posted to the autisticinnovator.com autism blog back in 2020. I still do some of these things I wrote about 5 years ago. I love my warm colored string lights on when it’s super early and still dark outside. I’ve become an autistic that has a hard time with the feeling of […]

This article was originally posted to the shop.autisticinnovator.com store blog on June 2, 2022. Even though The Autistic Innovator was nearly 2 years old, and the store only 11 months old, I felt like I wasn’t autistic enough because I struggled more with other things like ADHD and mental health issues, so I had a […]

This article was originally posted to the shop.autisticinnovator.com store blog on March 2, 2025. Back then I read a lot of the information out there written by a therapist about the 5 autistic love languages, but I didn’t relate to any of them, so I made my own 5 love languages. I knew it would […]

This article was originally posted to the autisticinnovator.com autism blog fall 2020. It was one of the first articles I ever wrote for The Autistic Innovator. I wrote it about my new cat Dinah that I had for a few months at that time (she’s still with me) because she seemed like if she were […]

This article was originally posted to the autisticinnovator.com autism blog summer 2021. I wrote this while I was at my office job since they left me in an office room alone with a door, with my job only taking a couple hours a day to do, so I used it to my advantage. I spent […]