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  The long road of love

  Blogging, personal development

  adhd, asd, autism, love, marriage, mental health, music, neurodiverse relationships, neurodiversity, psychology, spirituality

  “There was a girl I knewShe said she cared about meShe tried to make my worldThe way she thought it should be Yeah, we were desperate thenTo have each other to holdBut loveIs a long, long roadYeah, loveIs a long, long road” -Tom Petty Ohhhh TommyP TommyP TommyP. 😍What I wouldn’t have given to share…

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  When what it LOOKS like isn’t what it IS

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  adhd, asd, friendship, love, marriage, mixed neurotype relationship, movies, neurodivergence, neuroscience, psychology, relationships, writing

  I have an imaginary husband. This is a running joke of many people I grew up around. I stop short of using the word friends to indicate that while those who amuse themselves with this anecdote are certainly friends in the schoolmate historical sense of the word, we remain friends merely in the genuinely happy…

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  My son at 20, autism, and being “normal”

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  asd, autism, autistic, love, mental health, mindfulness, neurodiversity, pain, understanding

  Bear with me because I know parents always say this, but I can’t believe my little boy is 20. In picture 1 you will see my smiling, clear-eyed, neurotypically developing and verbal 11 and a half month old. Picture 2, taken shortly after his 1st birthday, shows my son beginning to drift off in his…