International Badass Activists

Category: Autistic History

Journal: Brace

Standing against the wind with a friend. We hold each other’s shoulder, brace and laugh as leaves nick our skin.

April 10, 2014
Art Therapy: First Fashion Plate Gal

Finding peace in art therapy.

April 7, 2014
Pregnancy Journal: My Unborn Child, Now 21 | Circa April 2, 1993

April 2, 1993 (8 months pregnant/31 weeks 45 in ) Things You Do Before You Were Born I can’t rest my arms or lean against the counter without getting a big kick. This morning I leaned back to wash the shampoo out of my hair, my tummy touched the shower wall and you gave me…

April 6, 2014
Urban559: Moon Chaser Series

Chasing the moon in downtown Fresno circa January, 2014. Photos: Eve Hinson

March 29, 2014
Teen Angst Retrospective: The Ballad of Mr. Gaines

(Written from my desk in math class in 1988 — Madera High, Madera, CA) He stares at us with his penetrating gaze. No matter how hard we try not to, we laugh if off. So what if he disapproves of our attitude? Do you think we care? Of course not. He wonders where the good…

March 26, 2014
Each Mind Matters: Sharing A Story Goes Full Circle

Sharing your story about mental health challenges can help others. I know listening today as professionals and consumers from seven counties talked about successes, and to consider future collaboration as those talks went on, made me feel hope for many in the future. Telling my story for the first time last month during the Each Mind…

March 10, 2014
Snippet From the Stanford Behavioral Ward Journal

In the ward I’ve seen haggard, pale and lost faces wandering the halls as the days go, in our new routines, detoxing from the meds the other doctors who didn’t understand how to help, popped down our gullets and created dependent, addicted crazy people. Well, as society would tell you, we were already crazy, but…

February 26, 2014