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Barefoot Rambling

barefootrambling@autistics.life

<p>Wandering the forested paths of the PNW. I&#39;m a mid-life auDHDer (newly discovered), storyteller, and author (as-yet-unpublished, unless you&#39;re an agent, in which case, can we talk?).</p>

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  • Post #3954912

    Question for my fellow autistics of the fediverse. Do you see EVERYTHING when you walk into a room for the first time? The painting, and the crack in the wall next to it. The plaid chair in the corner, and the dog hair behind the left front leg. The vase and the faces. (in the figure-ground, or Rubin, vase picture) I&#39;m reading Leidy Klotz&#39;s new book, In A Good Place and he&#39;s saying things like, &quot;we all miss most of the details when we enter a space. We see one thing then e...

  • Post #2042908

    Reading about liminality for my current WIP novel and the deeper I go, the more convinced I am that #autistic folx are liminal beings. For some context: I&amp;#39;ve referred to myself as marginalia for 20+ years. In high school I wasn&amp;#39;t IN any clique, but I had &amp;#39;contacts&amp;#39; in most of them so I knew what was going on everywhere. Later, I started adding that I was &amp;quot;just wired&amp;quot; different (only to find out I was right. Literally.) and that explained things...