I just got home from the hospital. I had impacted bowels, completely obstructed bladder, as well as mild liver problems and dehydration. I was there for about five days while they catheterized me and gave me more laxatives and enemas than I care to think about (and paid more attention to my shit [...]

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This is Laura Tisoncik, also known as “muskie” online.
Amanda is in the hospital and has been there since this weekend. It’s nothing terribly serious (I’ll let her explain when she’s out), and she’s getting better by the day. She should be back home, and with plenty more fuel for blog posts, in a few [...]

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I remember this happening with several people I spoke to about the machine I tried at MIT: When I explained that it showed physiological stress whenever I moved (that is not remotely present in other people), they said something to the effect of, “Oh, so stress causes movement difficulties, and if you weren’t [...]

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Tags: backwards, movement disorders, stress

I was just talking to a friend of mine, with the television “celebration” of Martin Luther King day in the background. And we were talking about how false that celebration is in many ways. That people are often not celebrating the real person, but almost a Disney version of who he was, what [...]

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Tags: poverty, race

I think a lot of people come here looking for information about autism, or about “how autism affects me”. Because that’s how I’ve been presented to the world a number of times, and it’s also what’s generally expected as autistic people’s role in life. Some of the people who come here looking for [...]

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Tags: Autism, Books

I’m going to post a link.
If you ever argue that autism and/or Asperger’s is “not a disability” because you think this configuration of our bodies partially, mostly, or entirely provides something positive in contrast to typical people, then please read it. The person who wrote it directed it mostly at you.
If you ever argue [...]

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Tags: barriers, Disability, Disability Rights, social model