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Category: Autistic History

  • What Do Seizures Look Like When Caused By Mental Trauma?

    Back in 2012, I believe that’s when this video was taken, I wanted to see what others saw when I had my tics, tremors, face pulls and uncontrolled body movements cause by Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures. Though I wanted to see what others saw, I did it in a format that was easier for me to…

  • What Are The Rights of the Mentally Ill?

    [Facebook comment [[9.10.14]] prompted by this story: Don’t coerce the mentally ill into treatment] The Mental Health Movement has made progress, but there’s so much further to go. I have a mental illness and I have rights. The same Bill of Rights apply equally to all of us. Patient rights, well, I didn’t realize I…

  • Eve Hinson: How I survived brain trauma

    Today my story, my journey with mental illness and the road to recovery was published in The Fresno Bee. You can read it here.    

  • Mental Illness: Journey to Recovery and Inclusion

    What a wondrous feeling — not sure how else to describe it. I took an oath yesterday to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies foreign and domestic. That I would bear true faith and allegiance to both constitutions and I took…

  • Robin Williams' Suicide: Mental Illness Doesn't Discriminate

      Well, I’m going to share because I don’t believe I’m the only one with a mental challenges struggling with Robin Williams’ death. Mental illness doesn’t discriminate, doesn’t care about your pocketbook, popularity or talent. Money won’t cure it. Fame and success, from what I can read in the news, compound it. Access to proper…

  • Journal Retrospective: Stuck

    May 3, 2001 New journal, new pen. This pen writes wicked nice. This is my attempt to get “in touch” with my feelings. So far no feelings have been touched. Working with a doctor to examine my head. I can hear him asking, “So how does that feel?”

  • Teen Angst Retrospective: Suicide

    As she stares into a blank space, she wonders why, how come this happened. I’ve tried my best, where did I go wrong?  She always talked to me about anything. This mother’s roaming thoughts betrayed her ignorance about what her daughter really felt before she made a decision that would forever be permanent. Journal – November, 25,…