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The Autistic Writer: Story Structure

Structure of any kind can make a strange bedfellow with Autism. On the one hand, a majority of Autistic people thrive on structure. Forcing them to break with their own structure can result in meltdowns for some, and mere irritation in others. Though the Autistic significance of structure is an unfortunate source of derision and …

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Autism Awareness Week: The Proper League

I have never been ashamed of mentioning my place on the Autism Spectrum. I don’t usually have much to say about it, but not due to embarrassment. Only because I do not define myself based upon it. Yet it doesn’t make it less true; I am in fact on the Autism Spectrum. What has been …

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What Not To Write

I was in college when I took part in an unusual theatre experience. Actually, it was all objectively new to me, because it was only the third show I had ever done in life, and the first that was not a one-act. Part of the experience was a months-long workshopping (read: rewriting) of the script. …

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