Mint does not taste clean to everyone. For a lot of autistic people it burns, and the foam that comes with it feels like too much happening in one small space at once. Add a brush scraping the gums, water pooling at the back of the throat, and the wet-face feeling at the sink, and […]

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It is almost midnight. Your bed is warm, your phone is in your hand, and your toothbrush is sitting ten feet away in the bathroom. You know you should get up, you want clean teeth, and somehow those ten feet feel like a genuinely unreasonable request. If that scene lands a little too hard, you […]

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There is a book on the nightstand with the receipt still tucked in it, somewhere around page thirty-one. Maybe a therapist recommended it. Maybe a coworker did, or a video that felt like it had been made about you specifically. You bought it that same night. It arrived, you got through the introduction and most […]

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Fifty years ago, a parent could bring a child with a disability to the local public school and be turned away at the door. No enrollment, no plan, no services, and nothing illegal about the refusal. In some states, there were laws on the books that kept deaf, blind, or intellectually disabled children out entirely. […]

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You are halfway through explaining a problem out loud when you hear yourself land on the answer. You did not plan the ending. The sentence just arrived, somewhere between “so the thing is” and “oh, wait, that’s it.” If that is how your best thinking tends to show up, especially if you have ADHD, there […]

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Some days your brain acts like every notification is a five-alarm fire. The dishwasher needs to be emptied. A text still needs a reply. Your supervisor sent an email. The dog is staring at an empty food bowl. Laundry is overflowing. You remember you forgot to pay a bill. Suddenly, every unfinished responsibility feels equally […]

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