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10:25pm June 18, 2014
Anonymous asked: Hey, I just wanted you to know that your little history lesson about "cousins" and AC as a concept was so so important to me. I have mental illnesses, sensory issues, and I guess atypical ways of thinking and being in the world that I'm just starting to realize are not how most people are, and that the older I get the more visible my behaviors and needs become. I don't know if I'm autistic, but until I read what you wrote I think I was terrified to even ask the question.

[cont’d: (same anon) But there isn’t a hard line is there? I feel so much kinship with autistic people in my life, who I meet, and people who write on the internet, and I see many of my experiences and feelings reflected there. And I can be a cousin and that is enough. Diagnosing and having a label is not important to me at this time but asking questions is and I was afraid to do even that. I’m still afraid, but I’m at least starting to write about it, think out loud in my head. Anyway, thank you.]

I am really really happy that the cousin concept is good for you.  That’s what it’s for.  It gives people room to breathe, without having to worry about where to draw the line.  It gives people room to just be who they are.