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I have spent my entire life feeling as though I have to earn the right to be here.
Aug 30, 2025
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True Form
It’s so much more than masking, and it’s more than people pleasing.
Aug 28, 2025
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It's Not Us Who Need To Change
When it dawned on me, and I mean really dawned on me, that I'm autistic, and what that meant, I was overwhelmed with a tidal wave of emotions.
Oct 14, 2023
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Reflections of a Late Diagnosed Autistic
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Masking
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Quietly Confident
May 4, 2024
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Touch & Trauma
Oct 26, 2023
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Reflections of a Late Diagnosed Autistic
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Touch & Trauma
(TRIGGER WARNING: INTIMACY/SHUTDOWN/GASLIGHTING/TRAUMA) I’ve never been the most tactile person. Even with the people I have been the closest with, I…
Oct 26, 2023
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(Content Warning: Shame, School Trauma, Anxiety)
May 4, 2024
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Touch & Trauma (Part 2)
Following on from one of my previous posts, I just had to share this video.
Dec 15, 2023
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We Are The Experts - A Poem
Thanks for reading Autistic Hippy!
Dec 1, 2023
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Masking
When you’ve been masking for most of your life, people don’t see the time you spend after each social interaction, overthinking and worrying you’ve said…
Nov 28, 2023
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Sense of Self - A Poem
I used to have a sense of self, but that self was not my own, an unsteady pile of bricks, made with sand, instead of stone For all intents and purposes…
Oct 31, 2023
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Autodidact - A Self Taught Person
Did you know that many autistic people are excellent autodidacts?
Oct 23, 2023
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Friendship
Growing up, like many kids my age, I went through periods of time where I'd have a 'best friend'.
Oct 20, 2023
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