symptoms of being neurotypical

  • you have immobile, frozen hands that do not fidget
  • your interests are shallow
  • you read into phrases past their actual meanings
  • you are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people’s eyeballs
  • you do not notice patterns in numbers and objects even when they are logically connected
  • you don’t mind doing things without planning them out first
  • instead of saying exactly what you think, you expect others to infer it based on subjective social rules

Do not be discouraged if you are neurotypical. if you work hard, you too can be decent at math and accomplish the same things autistic people can!

you just need to work hard with an expert on neurotypicalism. to reduce those problem behaviours like your meaningless social rituals. Every time you avoid small talk or resist a fashion trend you will get a lovely sticker. “I heart someone with neurotypicalism!”

Remember you can succeed despite the entire way your brain works! <3

winter

cold and beautiful and there’s nobody out. That means the doggo can run free

Huskies just look 20% more handsome in the snow

success?

I have struggled with depression and autism and everything in between for the larger part of the last 30 years.. but I always found ways to move on. Be it unorthodox and radical but I did and I made an effort.

so.. around christmas I had a moody moment and I told my children that I just hope no one ever finds out that I am in fact two 12-year-olds in a trenchcoat with money.

source

so they looked at me and were “you don’t own a trenchcoat – but if you did, we would actually suspect”

I think I did everything right at this point <3

Japan

there are always two approaches to a problem. While I appreciate the “design over function” approach, I also like the “there will be a way” approach :D

Paris with doggo

so travelling to paris with 2 teenagers and a husky is possible!

Had to upgrade the car a little bit but she really can do long drives with occasional breaks to stretch her legs.

I had to adjust to a different lifestyle, mainly sitting in bars and waiting for the kids to come back from museums and palaces drinking wine and eating croissant… but I can get used to that.

What Grace likes

Baguette
Frenchmen
hotel beds

What Grace doesn’t like

public transport in Paris
tourism
not being served in a cafe