Category: Society

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Stop Trying to Be Consistent — Business Advice for Autistic & AuDHD Business Owners

“Just be consistent!” might be the worst business advice for Autistic & AuDHD entrepreneurs. Here’s why.

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How to Build a Burnout-Resistant Business as a self-employed Autistic/AuDHD

If you’re an Autistic or AuDHD self-employed/solopreneur/freelancer who’s exhausted from trying to make standard business advice work for a brain it wasn’t designed for—there’s another way.

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Learn how subtle daily messages like “just try harder” and “you’re too sensitive” are forms of internalized neuro-ableism that neurodivergent people, especially Autistics, absorb and turn against themselves.

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Internalized Ableism for Autistics: Workshop & Assessment

Learn how to spot and start dismantling internalized ableism in your adult Autistic or AuDHD life—including the ways you’ve been trained not to notice you’re discriminating against yourself.

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How My Van’s Water System Works – Unique Setup

I share how I deconstructed the core of what’s actually needed in a simple water plumbing system.

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Making Things Better Is Too Big A Goal

Aiming to make things better can be overwhelming and frustrating. It can feel like the only options are trying to do everything or giving up and doing nothing. But there’s another option.

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Autistic Pride Day

It’s Autistic Pride Day and I’ve been thinking lately about what pride means in this context, and what I’m proud of.

What Culture Says about Strength Isn’t True

We often view our culture as “the way things are,” and this is especially true when it comes to displays of strength, but culture isn’t always right.

Practical Tips for Disclosing Your Autism

How to approach the “I’m Autistic” conversation so it goes better, and coping when it doesn’t.

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Four Mental Health Myths That Are Unhealthy

A few comments about four mental health myths that I’ve seen play out pretty consistently over the years.

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My Thoughts on Accountability Partners

Accountability partners is a popular concept, designed to keep us accountable to someone else in order to create motivation to get things done, but I have a different opinion.