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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

@julialeebarclay.bsky.social

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Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Aug 6

hey I started a Substack called Songs for The Unadapted Ones! it's for all of us with unadapted bodyminds - voluntary or involuntary... writing on autism, neurodiversity, long COVID and tools for living...join me! julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com/p/all-of-you...

All of You is Welcome Here

You are invited to take off your mask, kick up your feet or rock side to side—the water's fine.

julialeebarclaymorton.substack.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 23h

The real deal. So excited as a NYC native that I get to vote for next gen real leadership. Go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 2d

same! At age 57 and am now 62...also 38 years sober.

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 2d

Being autistic is getting told you’re hard to read while literally saying what you mean out loud in english.

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 2d

love this! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A new start after 60: I realised I had autism – and suddenly my life made sense. I have never been so happy

After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 2d

latest substack is a review of @kerryneville.bsky.social 's extraordinary memoir Momma May Be Mad... check it out... open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

Review as essay: Momma May Be Mad

an essay in conversation with Kerry Neville's extraordinary memoir of a harrowing journey to embracing her unadapted bodymind

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 3d

I Want to Be There

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 3d

October....

five leaved plants in various stages of red to green in old growth forest

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 6d

😂😂😂

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 7d

I have decided my new way of introducing myself will be "fashionably late-diagnosed Autistic" 😉😂

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 9d

I think that is for sure possible.

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11d

This is gorgeous and fascinating writing

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Sep 14

About my Autistic thought ancestors most of whom are younger than me...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 10d

oh thank you so much.

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 20d

Want real information about autistic experience? As opposed to the embarrassing clown car episode? Here is a piece of writing that will take you through a journey of the #actuallyautistic writers who have influenced my own thinking and understanding of autism as someone diagnosed at 57...

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 23d

you can get a good start with these writers I mention here open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 20d

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 23d

you can get a good start with these writers I mention here open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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Kieran Rose (The Autistic Advocate) @kieranrose.bsky.social · 21d

A beautiful, stunningly crafted and informative piece of writing (not just saying that because my work is mentioned in it)

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Sep 14

About my Autistic thought ancestors most of whom are younger than me...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 21d

🧡🧡🧡

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 21d

I am glad you think so, Kieran, since your writing and thinking has meant so very much to mine.

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 23d

you can get a good start with these writers I mention here open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 23d

In case you need me to tell you this, whatever the Clown Car says about autism today, it's going to be a bunch of shit. Read autistic writers and researchers if you actually care about us. We are legion and live it.

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 23d

thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for standing up for the First Amendment www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Mamdani Cancels WABC Town Hall to Protest Kimmel Suspension

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Sep 14

About my Autistic thought ancestors most of whom are younger than me...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 27d

It's so cool how there's no First Amendment anymore
Yay! This should go great! No more pesky opinions. Who needs 'em?
#Kimmel

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · 29d

noooooooooo. 😭😭😭

photo of Robert Redford on phone in 1970s newsroom from All The President's Men.

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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Sep 15

This includes @kieranrose.bsky.social @erinmanning1.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social and many others whose Bluesky accounts I can't find ...but I thank you all...for all you contribute to Autistic culture and thought...

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Sep 14

About my Autistic thought ancestors most of whom are younger than me...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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