neurodivergence
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A brief observation on how people sometimes meet an older version of you, and the moment when recognition finally catches up.
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After burnout forced a pause, I began to rebuild, choosing university, choosing creation, choosing myself. This is the story of how my voice returned.
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Beauty begins the moment comparison turns off. Confidence isn’t a competition but a presence, a feeling that moves through you when you simply exist, unmeasured, expressive, and seen.
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Notes From a Time Traveller! Belgium, from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.The classroom moved too fast for the girl near the window. When numbers flooded the blackboard, she could not hold onto them. Instructions arrived layered upon instructions: divide, copy, listen, hurry. A race she already knew she could not win. Fluorescent lights…
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The Case of Gentleman Jack When the archaeologist holds the remains of past ages, what stories pass through their fingers?The time traveller must borrow archaisms if she is to be heard at all, to prevent time from editing meaning into misread stories, so that others might hear what she heard. She took to a gambol…
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Having an autistic burnout, and then relapsing into another while still in it, feels like standing outside of life. Everything is moving.You can see it, feel it, smell it.But you are not in it. You are not part of it. Time keeps passing, but every step forward feels like falling deeper into an abyss. It…
Notes from a Time Traveller by Elke Stevens 