Tag: autistic

• Stuck in my Head

  

  I’ve always considered myself to be a reasonably smart, logical, well-balanced, normal kind of person. Everything made sense in my world and I was like most other people in the world (so I thought). Now I question my entire existence. All of those things that made me ME, I now realize are not normal. I…

  Meredith Gallie

  October 26, 2022

  life

  aspergers, autism, autistic, brain fog, chronic fatigue, chronic illness, chronic pain, confidence, depression, disabled, invisible illness, mental health, neurodivergent, self esteem, sjogrens, sjogrens syndrome, spectrum, spoonie

• Spiraling

  

  I feel like I’m on the verge of a mental breakdown. My thoughts are spiraling out of control again. Negative thoughts. Ugly thoughts. Wondering who I really am. Feeling lost. Confused. Not sure who I am. Did I ever know who I was? When I was a teenager I was blissfully unaware of life and…

  Meredith Gallie

  June 12, 2022

  life

  anxiety, aspergers, autism, autistic, chronic illness, chronic pain, depression, failure, invisible illness, loneliness, lonely, mental health, mental illness, negative, negative thoughts, neurodivergent, spiraling, spoonie, suicidal, vent

• A Life of Confusion…

  

  At 40 years old I’ve discovered that I have Autism. There, I said it! I feel ridiculous saying it at all. But it is the truth. It has been my truth all along but I never knew it. This explains why I’ve always had so many problems with myself and why I’ve hated myself for…

  Meredith Gallie

  December 13, 2021

  life

  adult autism, asd, aspergers, aspie, autism, autism mom, autistic, chronic illness, different, disability, disabled, female, invisible illness, mental health, spoonie