I have a neurodivergent daughter, and I want a better world for her.
But I’m also teaching her strategies and ways of seeing things, so she can navigate this neurotypical world.

The world is now.
Change may come tomorrow,
but today, we have to survive. 2/2

Maybe we don’t have to change.
Maybe it’s the world that needs to.

My head is full of pain, but I haven’t given in to despair.
I walk a path away from the past.
Hope is all I have.
Maybe it’s all I ever needed. 4/4

I can’t change who I am.
But I can learn to be who I am.
And maybe, in my own small way, I can make a difference for other different people who are struggling too. 3/4

The downside is realising the “cure” will never come.
I will always be like this.
That’s the hardest part, wishing life would just slam the brakes so I could get off this crazy merry go round. 2/4

Tired and bored but in good spirits. Has to take things slow.

If you’re here too: you’re not broken.
Sometimes the brain says, “Enough. Slow down.”

We’ll come back online. Just not by force. 4/4

I don’t always know what I feel, but I know when the signal goes quiet like this, it means I need rest, space, and patience. 3/4

It’s not depression in the dramatic sense.
It’s the autistic version:
shutdown more than sadness, silence more than crying.
A brain that’s tired of decoding the world. 2/4