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“Stop Looking At Your Phone”?: 5 Ways Internet Technology Helps My Queer, Neurodivergent Family

December 16, 2019 by Ginger Stickney Leave a Comment

Watching my teens interact on the Internet sometimes feel like coming full circle. My own experience with Internet relationships started in the early nineties on a fetish board, complete with black screen and green print. During that time, I was on the tail-end of an emotionally abusive relationship coupled with a lot of confusion about my sexual identity. Socially awkward … [Read more...]

Why I’m Done Being a “Good” Mentally Ill Person

October 10, 2019 by Sam Dylan Finch Leave a Comment

This article first appeared on The Establishment and is reprinted by permission. Content note: This article contains discussion of psychiatric hospitalization and briefly mentions suicidal ideation. I’m being buckled into a stretcher. Restraints are being placed around my ankles when a nurse walks by. “You don’t really have to use all the restraints,” she says to the … [Read more...]

3 Ways Autistic Adults Experience Domestic Abuse — And 3 Ways to Stop It

September 26, 2019 by Robert Chapman Leave a Comment

This article was originally published on The Establishment under the title "We Need To Talk About the Domestic Abuse of Autistic Adults" and is republished with permission. Content Warning: This article references sexual abuse. It didn’t take long for me to identify a sweeping problem that no one is talking about. After much confusion, anguish, flashbacks, self-blame, and … [Read more...]

Why I’m Done Being a “Good” Mentally Ill Person

3 Ways Autistic Adults Experience Domestic Abuse — And 3 Ways to Stop It

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