Tag: autism
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The Light: Lessons from a Year with EDS
(image of sunlight shining through trees) A year ago this week I was told the answer to the questions I have been asking my entire life. A year ago this week, my mother found out why she had a floppy baby, and that she was right all along. A year ago this week, I was…
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In Which The Government Simultaneously Tries to Kill Me and Keep Me Alive
(image of a giant Sequoia tree.) So I almost died this summer. Or at least, I came closer to dying than I ever have before. It was very unpleasant. I don’t recommend it. Here’s what happened. I had been having a worsening stomach ache all day. Not nausea. It just felt like somebody was punching…
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The Things They Don’t Tell You: Part Two
(Image of an open arch shaped green door in a stone wall with greenery showing on both sides.) 5. Things. They don’t tell you about things. I had a pair of gray ballet flats. I wore them all over DC all those years ago and to the wedding and they went so well with everything.…
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The Things They Don’t Tell You: Part One
(black and white image of an old fashioned key lying on a piece of printed something) I don’t know how you do it, someone said to me the other day. The truth is that I don’t either. All I know is that I get up in the morning and I swallow the pills, I…
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That Little Girl Who Cries in My Dreams
I am friends with a half-dozen people on facebook from what I term my childhood: before I turned 18. The other day, one of these women, who I haven’t seen in over a dozen years, had posted something and someone else replied, and I looked at the name, and my heart stopped beating for just…
I Know This Rose Will Open 